A masterpiece and picturesque cinematic treat to the audience. The film is already selected as an official entry from India for the 95th Oscars Academy Awards and genuinely it deserves that supreme level. Every frame of the film is amazingly artistic and gives the best allure to the eyes. Pan Nalin's attempt of making a film which is based on the cinema is highly praiseworthy and its execution is simply brilliant. This movie will take the audience to that nostalgia where films were being projected via projectors on screen and two reels/spools of each film got distributed to the theatres in box.
Film has a backdrop of village and there is one ambitious child who wants to be a film maker when he will grow up. Watching films is his only passion and for that he even bunks school. His father who runs a tea-stall doesn't like this; but the child is adamant and dreams only cinema. With his gang he finds one Projectionist and befriends him so that he can watch movies from the Projection Room. He also gets to see how films are showcased via Projectors and then he feels sheer urge to learn and implement whole mechanism behind this by his own childlike ways. However there comes a day when digital projection of films takes over the traditional ways and how that would impact to this Child and the Projectionist forms the crux of the film.
Casting of the film is very suitable. All the actors look very natural (raw) and they have acted superbly. Lead child artist Bhavin Rabari is excellent and delivers engaging performance. Bhavesh Shrimali also outshines in the role of Projectionist. Dipen Raval and Richa Meena are appealing; specifically, Richa Meena as mother, steals the show with her alluring cooking. There are some more child artists in the cast as well, and all of them make their presence felt worthy.
The whole story, frame by frame, is splendidly shown on the screen. The lush green village and that 80s-90s period have been presented in the film so well that we indeed slip into that time. Direction is intense and different anecdotes of story are astoundingly picturized. Cinematography is such beautiful that at times we even forget to blink our eyes. The script is very strongly written; despite the film is simple, it completely holds the audience via its storytelling, dialogues, and apt background score. Everything is glorious pertain to the film and which makes it a MUST WATCH. I was able to relate myself to the film a little more because I have lived the tales depicted in the film. As said, it's a cinematic treat which is beautiful, striking, emotional, and engrossing too! Film grabs all the stars from me 5 / 5 (🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟). Run and watch this in cinema!
What I Liked Most? - The last scene inside train which I don't want to reveal here.
P. S. - The film is also a semi-autobiography of director Pan Nalin.
By - Niraj Solanki...!
Film has a backdrop of village and there is one ambitious child who wants to be a film maker when he will grow up. Watching films is his only passion and for that he even bunks school. His father who runs a tea-stall doesn't like this; but the child is adamant and dreams only cinema. With his gang he finds one Projectionist and befriends him so that he can watch movies from the Projection Room. He also gets to see how films are showcased via Projectors and then he feels sheer urge to learn and implement whole mechanism behind this by his own childlike ways. However there comes a day when digital projection of films takes over the traditional ways and how that would impact to this Child and the Projectionist forms the crux of the film.
Casting of the film is very suitable. All the actors look very natural (raw) and they have acted superbly. Lead child artist Bhavin Rabari is excellent and delivers engaging performance. Bhavesh Shrimali also outshines in the role of Projectionist. Dipen Raval and Richa Meena are appealing; specifically, Richa Meena as mother, steals the show with her alluring cooking. There are some more child artists in the cast as well, and all of them make their presence felt worthy.
The whole story, frame by frame, is splendidly shown on the screen. The lush green village and that 80s-90s period have been presented in the film so well that we indeed slip into that time. Direction is intense and different anecdotes of story are astoundingly picturized. Cinematography is such beautiful that at times we even forget to blink our eyes. The script is very strongly written; despite the film is simple, it completely holds the audience via its storytelling, dialogues, and apt background score. Everything is glorious pertain to the film and which makes it a MUST WATCH. I was able to relate myself to the film a little more because I have lived the tales depicted in the film. As said, it's a cinematic treat which is beautiful, striking, emotional, and engrossing too! Film grabs all the stars from me 5 / 5 (🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟). Run and watch this in cinema!
What I Liked Most? - The last scene inside train which I don't want to reveal here.
P. S. - The film is also a semi-autobiography of director Pan Nalin.
By - Niraj Solanki...!