Saturday, 26 November 2016

Sairat : A Contemplation on The Tragedy of Indian Society

As the Marathi movie 'Sairat' winds up, as you see two little feet walking away from the screen leaving wet footprints, a sense of tragedy hangs around you: A sense of tragedy and loss, and of unbearable pain. If you examine the pain closely, you observe that it was a pain you had ingested into your mental life way back- A pain so dense that you cannot be a person until you learn to lock it away in the deep recesses of your being. It is a sum total of many pains…  A pain on beautiful things getting spoilt; a pain of lost moments you cannot get back; a pain for love you carve for; a pain for respect and dignity of human life getting denied,  and a pain of failing to understand why when everyone wants to be happy they end up making each others' lives hell.