Nirbaak- A Man, A Tree, A bitch, A
Corpse…
Firstly, Nirbaak is not at all a
movie for everyone. Even the ones who regularly write reviews and critical
appreciations for movies may not like it. I saw people going out of the theatre
while the movie was still on. May be they were in search for a mushy love
story, with an item song or two! Whatever may be the reason, Nirbaak is NOT
meant for all! Let me tell you all that this is not a critical review of the
movie. This is just my personal thoughts about it!
Being a silent person myself, I was
always of the view that silence speaks more than words. And this is what
Nirbaak speaks of. It speaks of love, without actually being loud about it. It conversed
in silence, without a word, and still communicated so much across the audience.
The movie portrays myriad faces of love. The surreal, narcissist love of a man
who falls for himself every time he looks at himself at the mirror, the tree
which falls for the woman who sits under it on a bench, the selfless love of a
dog for her master, and the weird, necrophillic love of a man for a corpse!
At the very beginning it is shown
that the film is a tribute to Salvadore Dali. Along with it, the depiction of
the whole movie through hand shadows at the commencement is unusually
beautiful. The four stories are inter-weaved in a brilliant manner. I have never
been a fan of Anjan Dutta. Be it for his music or acting. But trust me, I don’t
think anybody could have portrayed his character better than him in the movie. The
unrealistic love of Ritwick Chakraborty for the corpse of Sushmita Sen may make
no sense, but it proves how strong an actor Ritwick actually is. Again, the
introduction of Sushmita Sen in the Bengali movie industry couldn’t have been
better than this. There is no denying of the fact about how beautiful she is
but according to me, she did quite a good job with her acting as well. Jishhu
Sengupta has always been a strong actor. And surprisingly, the dog did a great
job too! I fell in love with Bingi!
Many people will not understand the
concept of surrealistic cinema. May be this is the reason why Nirbaak is
getting mixed reviews from every corner. When we see the tree having orgasm by
seeing Sushmita sleeping on the bench under it, with her Dupatta flowing off
her breasts and her locks brushing her face sensually, when we see Anjan Dutta
kissing himself through the mirror and masturbating at night after having a
lonely date with himself on his birthday, when we see Bingi, the dog, becoming
suicidal after seeing her master getting drifted away from her, when we see
Ritwick imagining going on a honeymoon with the corpse of Sushmita, the only
thing which comes to our mind is that, can it be true? Do we ever think that
our pet can really love us so much and might get hurt when we are not able to
give him/her that much of time due to our other responsibilities? Do we ever
try to know that the tree in that park which gives us shade every time we sit
under it can fall in love with us? Isn’t it true that the way we can love
ourselves, and the way we can be occupied with ourselves, we can never expect
it from anyone else? Do we ever think that the guard of that morgue who spends
most of his time with the corpse can actually fall in love with the dead body
of a girl who was once a beautiful woman? No, we don’t! Because we are just too
much preoccupied with the loudness of our lives! We seldom get time to think
and search for words in the little moments of silence. We are too busy being
busy and Nirbaak lets us break that loudness for a few minutes to be able to
delve into that silence!
At a point the inner silence of the
movie is so intriguing that we start questioning the reality. The discord of
silence with reality is what Nirbaak is all about. Watch it not just for the
sake of it. Watch it not because you have loved the previous Srijit Mukherjee
flicks. Do not watch if you are expecting Anupam Roy songs. Watch it for it is
not those so-called love stories intertwined with each other with a single
ending. Watch it with an open mind and do not be judgemental about it before
hitting the theatres. To sum it up, Nirbaak is another masterpiece by Srijit. It
is a movie by which Srijit will be remembered to the generations to come.
