Maachis

I remember as a kid, all the grown-ups around me watching this film.

Maachis touches upon a very sensitive subject. It doesn’t really try to be politically correct by passing on a message through the movie. It doesn’t really favor anything by presenting a right or a wrong. Maachis neutrally depicts the state of affairs in India, at a certain point of time in the 90s, involving the Sikhs and the authorities. The film is very subtly done, the story beautifully woven together with a screen play that doesn’t really go off track except the last part when the movie drags a little.

Maachis is a good movie, sensitive, touching and well executed. The songs of the movie are remembered by one and all till this day, just like all other song that great man has ever written. That great man who’s not just the most excellent poet but is also a fabulous story-teller. The man, the one and the only, The Gulzar.

My Rating- 2.5/5

Fire

There are some movies that talk about certain subjects that are frowned upon by the society, but still manage to stand out when they do so. Fire could've been very bad movie considering the obvious nature of the subject but the sensibility and the critical manner in which the story is depicted makes Fire a movie to be remembered.

Characters, so simply sketched yet complimenting the story so perfectly. A story so simple but yet resonating a depth through the depiction. I would like to state this again, Fire is a movie to be remembered.

Simple. Impactful. Beautiful.

My Rating- 3.75/5

PS- It's sad the controversy that this movie created. India hadn't learnt to do one of the important things that makes us human, and that's to think. To a certain extent it still hasn't.