I liked ZNMD for the same reasons that I liked Life is Beautiful. I like movies that celebrate life.
ZNMD, is about our free spirit that often and tragically remains boxed in most of us, for most of our lives.
Alas, how many will live in the Now, be aware of one’s every breath and know how precious every breath really is- to be alive and to just be.
"keh raheen hai bas ek tum ho yahan,
bas main hoon,
meri saansein hain aur meri dhadkanein,
aisi gehraiyaan, aisi tanhaiyaan,
aur main... sirf main.
Apne hone par mujhko yakeen aa gaya."
Hritik begins to know this many meters below underwater, first scared then liberated. The dive made the man cry.
How many will know what its to fly like a bird, to leave below and leave behind the angst of the past. Liberated as Farhan then feels. The flight made the man scream with joy.
Or be like the woman who rides a motorbike miles to just kiss someone, only to return to her own freedom, and leave him to his? Katrina is liberated and liberating.
If I didn’t know that the prime-movers of the film include people such as Javed, Zoya and Farhan Akhtar, I would have dismissed my interpretations and delight as misplaced. Currently I am waiting to see the film dobara, to explore and discover more through the denouement of the plot and poetry of one of the protagonists. Below the thin but lovely sheen of glamour, glitz and kitsch that they have dished out which the Junta is loving, is Spain and the breeziness of the movie thats seductive...Beneath all that there is some chicken soup for the soul. Many may disagree...but as in Life, as for a movie, its what you take from it. Its personal.
Some have commented that the films meanders around, if not aimlessly but rather leisurely before its gets to its destination. Perhaps a more than apt parallel and comment on life. Shouldnt it always be about the journey? The film has been criticized for the many and somewhat long silent moments that punctuate the narrative. To me that is life, and at the end of the journey called ZNMD its creditworthy that we look back remembering the film as breezy and fluid. The beauty is the film is neither preachy nor melodramatic. Its new but it goes down smoothly!
The ending is abrupt to some and to others, a great stroke, as lovely as the film. To me the metaphor of the “bulls” that constantly chase us now and then in life, and how fear, fright and flight give way to a smile and a frozen frame is fantastic. Death we all know allows us to be born again. Near death experiences do the same. Now how does one consciously go about embracing near death experiences?
We all want to jump, dive, kiss, fly.
"Kyun tu aise pal khota hai
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai"
Time to chage seats to sitting in Lifes aisle seat?
ZNMD, is about our free spirit that often and tragically remains boxed in most of us, for most of our lives.
Alas, how many will live in the Now, be aware of one’s every breath and know how precious every breath really is- to be alive and to just be.
"keh raheen hai bas ek tum ho yahan,
bas main hoon,
meri saansein hain aur meri dhadkanein,
aisi gehraiyaan, aisi tanhaiyaan,
aur main... sirf main.
Apne hone par mujhko yakeen aa gaya."
Hritik begins to know this many meters below underwater, first scared then liberated. The dive made the man cry.
How many will know what its to fly like a bird, to leave below and leave behind the angst of the past. Liberated as Farhan then feels. The flight made the man scream with joy.
Or be like the woman who rides a motorbike miles to just kiss someone, only to return to her own freedom, and leave him to his? Katrina is liberated and liberating.
If I didn’t know that the prime-movers of the film include people such as Javed, Zoya and Farhan Akhtar, I would have dismissed my interpretations and delight as misplaced. Currently I am waiting to see the film dobara, to explore and discover more through the denouement of the plot and poetry of one of the protagonists. Below the thin but lovely sheen of glamour, glitz and kitsch that they have dished out which the Junta is loving, is Spain and the breeziness of the movie thats seductive...Beneath all that there is some chicken soup for the soul. Many may disagree...but as in Life, as for a movie, its what you take from it. Its personal.
Some have commented that the films meanders around, if not aimlessly but rather leisurely before its gets to its destination. Perhaps a more than apt parallel and comment on life. Shouldnt it always be about the journey? The film has been criticized for the many and somewhat long silent moments that punctuate the narrative. To me that is life, and at the end of the journey called ZNMD its creditworthy that we look back remembering the film as breezy and fluid. The beauty is the film is neither preachy nor melodramatic. Its new but it goes down smoothly!
The ending is abrupt to some and to others, a great stroke, as lovely as the film. To me the metaphor of the “bulls” that constantly chase us now and then in life, and how fear, fright and flight give way to a smile and a frozen frame is fantastic. Death we all know allows us to be born again. Near death experiences do the same. Now how does one consciously go about embracing near death experiences?
We all want to jump, dive, kiss, fly.
"Kyun tu aise pal khota hai
Dil aakhir tu kyun rota hai"
Time to chage seats to sitting in Lifes aisle seat?
Beautifully consolidated words.... I am sure this broadened perspective would have given Zoya Akhtar a new picture altogether for her movie... :)
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