Software Engineer living in Thailand. kidnapped one fine day to find himself a prisoner in an anonymous room. Here, he spends…get this…fourteen years before being released! Without blowing the entire storyline, the movie then is about his attempt to answer “Why” and “Who”. This was ‘Zinda’. This ain’t a review of the movie, plenty of better qualified links for that. For me, the sequence in the movie after he’s released was it! Emerging out of a trunk, Bala (Dutt), finds himself standing on the roof of one of hundreds of skyscrapers around. He spends the next few minutes walking around the streets of Bangkok trying to orient himself. But its a world that’s long passed him by. He looks for landmarks he might recognize but only sees an alien land. He knows noone…noone knows him, remembers him. The background score now plays “ye hai meri kahani”. The words of the song…strings…the situation…the combination is chilling. The feeling of isolation is complete. All-encompassing. Can’t be just me. Koi nahi…hai koi bhi nahi…na paas…na duur…ek yaar hai…dil ki dhadkan…Cliched? maybe…but the words linger…funny…only other song to have ever had that effect on me is also by the same band…jaane do…
p.s: the title of the post...not mine...a u2 song...guess?
the photograph...mine...taken from my trusty rebel 2000
1 comment:
they were kinda weak...but my reason for goin' for the movie was long done...the song
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