The most important aspect was Ravi, as he carries the emotional weight of the film.
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Some things in this movie worked really well. Only when Mahesh just gave in and became full-on Iago did we think his character started to work. At first, this character rang really hollow for the PPCC, but we slowly grew to accept him as we realized more and more the parallels with Othello. Scorned and embittered, he loved Naina too and has channeled his grief outwards, big time. If you're like the PPCC, you're probably going, "What the hell happened in Europe?! And OMG, please don't let Naina's end be some latently misogynistic moral fable about how eloping and nautch-girls are evil." What Happened In Europe becomes the crux of the film, but we won't spoil it.Ī funny and sweet moment from the song, Humko To Jan Se Pyari Hai, where Jyoti daydreams about Ravi in (and on top of!) her car.Īnd, because the director of this film loves us, some time later we get a visual parallel in reality.Ī further complication: Ravi's cousin, Mahesh (?), is basically Iago. Ravi and Jyoti are thrilled, yet troubles continue - every time things are looking up, Ravi experiences PTSD-like flashbacks and then compulsively drinks and wallows.
Jyoti's hero-worship/Florence Nightingale act, however, turns out to be the one thing that might save Ravi from himself, or so think the older generation, who agree to marry the two off. This, naturally, attracts Ravi's attention, and sparks fly of the emotionally unhealthy sort. This movie also used blunt and experimental symbolism, such as when Jyoti's weeping over Ravi's alcoholism cross cuts with these subliminal-short flashes of a ship drowning in an ocean (of tears and whiskey, apparently!).Įnter the complication: Jyoti, who crushes on Ravi big time, turns out to look a lot like Naina around the eyes.
Yet something has happened - which we learn much later in the film - and Naina is now dead, Ravi grieving, and Naina's mother (?) and sister, Rajani (?), both courtesans themselves, hating Ravi. Told in disorienting cross cuts, we witness their flight through Venice, the French Riviera, Rome. If you've ever seen Umrao Jaan, Ghungroo, or Teesri Kasam, you know that such relationships never work out - but kudos to Ravi and Naina for trying! Indeed, we think this is one of the first Hindi films we've seen where the forbidden couple actually does elope. Flashback by flashback, we learn that back in the day Ravi eloped to Europe (yay!) with a nautch-girl/prostitute, Naina (Rajshree) - causing much drama back home. "So what's wrong, Ravi?" you ask the television screen. Meanwhile Ravi's semi-royal father (?) and chilly aunt (Shaukat Azmi) are exhausted, annoyed and forever worried about him, and they don't know whether to punish him or help him out (they usually do a bit of both). Indeed, because of his gentle melancholy and good-humored fatalism, most people feel compelled to help him out and cut him some slack - his biggest fan, Jyoti (an adorable Moushimi Chatterjee), her father and family friend (?), even the neighborhood paanwallah. This is all unlike some people, ahem.Īny movie where Venice is a liberating Elysium gets an A+ in the PPCC's books. Yes, really! Byronic he may be, but he lashes out at no one, emotionally blackmails no one, and generally just keeps his moping to himself (or channels it productively into his poetry, excellent!). Ravi drives the girls wild with his tragic debauchery and even though his wallowing self-pity is impractical (he doesn't show up to poetry recitals, he squanders the family fortune), he is good-hearted.
It's also very influenced by poetry and theatre, so that typical Hindi movie scenarios get treated in relatively new ways - the same melodrama, but with more mature emotional politicking and moral greyness.Įnter Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor), famous poet and grieving alcoholic. Written by Kaifi Azmi (father of Shabana) and starring Shaukat Azmi (mother of Shabana), it has a semi-classical, semi-progressive vibe. It's one of those movies that leaves you in a sheen of its movieness in this case, it left us in one of those bittersweet "Oh, humanity! Oh, life!" moods. What do you get when you combine Devdas with Othello? You get Naina ( Eyes), a movie that is at times poignant, at times tiresome, and always interestingly unique. Also IMDb had no cast details and so neither do we! Warning: Byronic characters provoke extra-long reviews from the PPCC.
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