ASSIGNMENT 3
Name of the Movie: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (HDDCS)
Synopsis:
Nandini, the only daughter of a classical singer Pandit Darbar loves his student, Sameer half Indian settled in Italy. However, following the tradition of arranged marriage, Vanraj family sends his marriage proposal to Nandini’s father. Sameer and Nandini are caught romancing with each other, and as a payment for teaching Sameer music, Darbar demands Sameer to forget Nandini. After the weeks of the wedding, Vanraj comes to know about Nandini’s love for Sameer. He decides to unite the lovers even in the face of ridicule by the society and takes Nandini to Italy to search for Sameer. They find Sameer, but Nandini is now in shabby situation of dilemma between Vanraj, with whom she has come to Italy, and Sameer whom she loves…..
Bruner’s Narrative: “Particularity”
As I understand, this is whereby a story fall into particular, meticulous special details to emphasize connotation of storyline and classy events, progressively moving story interestingly with the sequence of games, pranks, kite-flying festival, and light revelry along with marriage sequences. These particular events and scenes play an important part in moving the story forward at the same time entertaining the audience and bringing light to reality. Culture, Ethics, Family Tradition, and Complications leave the movie poised as father of Nandini decides wedding in favor of Vanraj, leaving Sameer in despair.
In the opening scene of the movie, the actress is caught engaged in a rowdy, noisy game in an open wide muddy field, giving me an idea about her temperament. According to me, it emerges that she is playful, hot-tempered, outspoken as well as little spoilt, and mollycoddle by parents at times. Sameer, half Indian and half Italian, come to India from Italy to learn classical singing from the father of Nandini, and falls in love with the Nandini. He is picturized as a flamboyant, mischievous type, for whom dancing and singing is all that matters. That seems to exasperate Nandini at times.
Majority of the Indian movies, length almost three hours; thrilled, engaged and entertained by hodgepodge with songs and dances. It is not uncommon, in an ordinary Indian movie the film hero is seen escaping battered and bloody from a pack of villains in one scene, and singing a love duet against an exotic, preferably mountainous, riverside or rainy day, backdrop in the next scene. It is not the same with HDDCS, the songs are well-researched, and evenly placed on festivals of kites, lights and colors. The dance song, Garba: played with pair of sticks, traditional outwear has relied heavily on Gujarati folk music. This song is named “Dholi taro”, which comes with bang of heavy drum beats in the middle of a serious scene, is a super hit. Unfortunately there is no bumbling comedian, still the movie is well paced with nice jokes to relieve and lighten things up. For a while I thought the fart scene appear to be immature and ikky, however, it was the most realistic and reasonable (eating chilly and pepper:)) thing about the film. It was unexpected, well played and just typical of life.
As per my opinion, what exasperate me a bit is the sound of thunder with lightening that accompanies Sameer’s queries to his dead father. A thunder sound passes for a “Yes” or “No”, and Sameer stretch his arms to hug his father. Reciting and repeating same scene across some serious events appears bit corny. Also, during the wedding scene, Sameer compliments Nandini’s beauty and she acts as if she is a Miss World. Nandini (Aishwarya Rai, actress of the movie), actually was Miss World in 1994. The rumors came true; movie also resulted in the real-life romance between Sameer (Salman Khan) and Aishwarya Rai.
In the second half of the movie; Vanraj - husband of Nandini as per arranged marriage, comes out with a brilliant cameo role who on realizing the love of his wedded wife, decides to take her to her true love who is now back in Italy. The adamancy of Nandini being unswerving with Sameer, and the commitment of Vanraj to reunite Nandini to her love make some classy sequence make the movie well balanced. The movie draws a smooth climax mixed with scintillating melodious soothing background music which is not quite unpredictable, nevertheless still quite effective. Finally, all the people involved in creating the hit movie; Director, Producer, Singer, Music director, choreographer, deserve the credit for not going overboard as it happens so often with bollywood movies. Overall, I think all the spectacular events in the movie are perfectly fitted with relevant details which make it more realistic, entertaining and create an impact for both the audience and the production team.
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