The theme discussed in
this film is basically somehow similar to my theme which I thought for my
portfolio which is about the problems in education system. Although in this
film the main character of a boy Ishan has a dyslexia problem but despite of that,
the type of teachers shown in the film is very much similar to the teachers in
the government education system in many underprivileged areas of underdeveloped
countries. The makers of this film have played very cleverly and have proved
that they have done a responsible production as first they created a general perception
of teachers and then showed one teacher who was different from others and
helped that boy with a learning disability. Therefore, they proved that neither
all the teachers are same nor all the students are of same capabilities. This
correcting of a representation was an inspiration for me and that’s why I kept
this film as my reference film although it is not a short film but a wonderful
and great art/drama film.
This film gives a representation
of these types of teachers who are cruel and who harm the students through
strict punishments without discovering the problems of the students. This
representation is aided by the camera angles and shots as well for example in
the entire film where ever there are some shots of the cruel teachers so they
all are low angled shots thus reflecting the over dominating personalities they
usually have and almost all the shots of Ishan are high angled shots in order
to give a feeling of depression and low moral which that boy have in this film.
There are many close up shots as well in this film where ever the audience
needs to know the feelings of that boy which are happy/fun filled in the beginning,
sad and low at the boarding school and then again happy/artistic towards the
end when his talent is discovered by a new teacher. Mid-shots are used similar to
other films but all the establishing shorts have great meaning and
signs/symbols given for the intelligent audience to judge the feeling of that
boy.
The editing and
music/sound of this film is simply awesome in some places as some animations
and special effects are also used to represent the feelings of all the characters.
The song “bhejha kum” is a great example where the sound, music, editing and
animations were a great aid for the director to deliver the frustrated feelings
of that young little boy after the torture of government school to the audience.
The mise-on-scene of
this film is very much related and interlinked to the film in every scene of
the film. For example all the scenes of boarding school had a spirit of
strictness all over before the entrance of the new teacher and to develop this
spirit mise-on-scene played a very vital role. In the first half of the song when
the boy is in his dreaming and when once he bunks the schools and
enjoys/observes all the things and people on the road are some of the scenes
which had great mise-on-scene in order to represent the character of a creative
young little boy who is full of imaginations.
So these were all the elements
due to which it is my reference film and one of the best “complete package”
inspirational movies I have seen so far. I have to make a short film in this
year’s portfolio so it won’t be possible for me to inculcate all the elements
in my film because of certain limitations of resources but I will try my best
to inspire people and correct a miss representation of our society as this film
did.
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