Movies are the favorite pass time for an average Teenager I am not different, but I like to get the insight of the movie. A movie that you love creates deep impact on your day-to-day life as well. Some of them might stay for hour day or month or even for lifetime. Few movies which disturbed me…..
True story of Chris Gardner who was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.
THE BLACK
An unofficial remake of the 1962 US film ‘The Miracle Worker’,is about a deaf-blind girl played by Rani and her teacher enacted by Bachchan who introduces her to the world of words.
The story of Black is based on the true life story of Helen Keller. Michelle McNally (Rani Mukerji) who loses her eyesight and hearing a few months after birth and exists in a black world where she is isolated in the darkness of her own existence, trapped by her inability to see, hear and express.
She grows up becoming more and more frustrated by the black and dark world around her, making her a violent, uncontrollable eight-year old. Her parents, Paul and Catherine, are at their wits’ end trying to control her, until one day the light shines through the end of the tunnel. Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan) enters their lives, an elderly alcoholic teacher for the deaf and blind, Debraj sees himself as a magician and is a disillusioned eccentric man. He takes it upon himself to bring young Michelle into the light. He has harsh ways, very harsh ways actually though it is used for her long-term benefit. Through many good and hard times michelle becomes much more tame and almost completely not aggressive. After many years with Debraj, Michelle changes her life completely in those years. One day Debraj leaves Michelle to her much regret. Eventually she finds him again though this time it is he who needs her help. The story ends with Michelle attempting to cure Debraj.
Time Magazine (Europe) selected the film as one of the 10 Best Movies of the Year 2005 from across the globe.
GURU:
Guru has been described by Ratnam and others involved in the production as a film that is reflective of a man’s desire for ambition and success, and how times have changed from the period immediately after the country’s independence to the present. Some reports have speculated that this film is a biopic of, one of India‘s biggest Industrial tycoon, Dhirubhai Ambani. Like Guru, Ambani also had roots in Gujarat as the son of a schoolteacher, went abroad to work for the gas company Shell, and returned to India to import polyester. In addition, the surname “Desai” attributed to Guru in the movie is a common surname of the Anavil Brahmin caste to which Ambani belonged. There are also differences between the two stories. Ratnam has described Guru as inspired by stories both past and present.
Historic Resemblences:(Courtesy- wiki)
In the film Abhishek Bachchan portrays Gurukant Desai, who resembles Dhirubhai Ambani, the owner of Reliance India. Dhirubhai traveled to Yemen in his early years to work from junjoi ; In the film, Gurubhai travels to Turkey to escape his father’s criticism.
Historically, the media war waged against Dhirubhai Ambani was fought by Ramnath Goenka‘s newspaper The Indian Express. In the film, the paper is named the Swatantra Samachar, and is headed by Manik Das Gupta (Mithun Chakraborty). The reporter portrayed by Madhavan‘s Shyam Saxena resembles S. Gurumurthy.
Another image that resonates historically are the Contractors mentioned in the film, who closely resemble the Wadias. The younger Contractor shares similarities with Nusli Wadia.
