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DVD ~ Arvind Swamy
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  • Actors: Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Tinnu Anand, Akash Khurana, Nasser
  • Directors: Mani Ratnam
  • Writers: Mani Ratnam, Umesh Sharma
  • Producers: Mani Ratnam, S. Sriram
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Import, PAL
  • Language Hindi, Tamil
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Eros International
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
  • Run Time: 136 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008N72R
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,028 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterly dirty tricks, 21 Nov 2004
By Maria Álvarez Folgado "alfaris5" (castellar del valles, barcelona Spain) - See all my reviews
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You can find in this story all the dirty tricks that you can imagine to emotionaly engage an audience and make it reach a tear-splashed climax. First you have the Romeo-and-Juliet style love affair between the two main characters: the shocking love choice of a muslim girl by a hindu man that makes them abandom their families and native village, where life would be impossible, for the more tolerant atmosphere of the great city of Bombay.

When we have already begun to feel more relaxed, seeing they have comfortably (by Indian standards) settled in Bombay, and that their families have finally accepted the marriage after a pair of twins have been born to the happy couple, we must get ready to suffer in earnest. The infamous riots of Bombay begin. And then the film presents the dirtiest trick: the children of the couple will have to suffer the unleashed violence of ethnical and religious hatred.

We,as audience,suffer along with the parents, who are afraid have lost their children forever, but we are nevertheless mercilessly shown the results of this violence of neighbour against neighbour in hard, impossible to forget images (such as the one when the protagonists look for their children in a hospital ward and in a morgue), of course without gore-ish details, as is the canon in Bollywood, but by this time you must be made out of stone indeed if you are not crying your eyes out.

Another thing we are shown, and this is quite a common message in the Indian cinema lately, is how the riots are the result of the politicians'/religious leaders' vicious manipulation of the people's minds.

Although the political message of the film is very plain, to the point of being of pamphlet quality, and the emotional dirty tricks are felt as so many blows below the belt, it takes Bolliwood to make from all this tricky material a gripping story that has the audience watching on, with a lump on their throat, for three hours. You can also find more levels than just the purely superficial in the movie: there is always the symbolism, so dearly loved by Indian cinema, as in the case of the twins and their fate. And there are some subtler messages: when one of the boys gets lost and is in danger of being trampled to death by a terrrified mob, he is rescued by an eunuch. And it is this most despised and marginal of members of society who, while tending to the boy's wounds and feeding him, finally explains to the boy what religion is, and what is the difference between a muslim and a hindu.

As usual with Bollywood films, there are musical numbers, but in this case we don't have any major star of India, although the main actors are great (she is especially charming in the style of Audrey Hepburn); but you have to watch out for the support actors: whenever the two fathers-in-law (one of them a very pious muslim, the other a very pious hindu...always having commical clashes)are in a scene the screen rocks!

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful !!!!, 17 Jan 2007
By G. Jones (Berlin) - See all my reviews
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One of the best films I have ever seen. Slower and plainer than most Bollywood starbusters, but the better for it. This film is beautiful, poignant, real, and very, very moving.

Buy it!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars a disparate tale of hindu muslim twins in a torn city, 12 Jul 2009
By Dr. U. L. Khawaja "usman khawaja" (hornchurch ,london) - See all my reviews
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A DISPARATE TALE OF HINDU -MUSLIM TWINS

This is an extremely powerful politico -religious cinematic classic to emerge from the vast archives of bollywood ,yet it had it's fair share of censor problems and political controversy because of it's rather realistic but disturbing theme of hindu-muslim disparity .
A hindu man and a devout muslim girl fall in love in a remote village but when faced with extreme prejudice they elope to Bombay ,where they set up a home and raise a family with twin sons ,yet they are still in the same time frame of bigotry and ignorance as events unfold beyond their control .
The destruction of the 12th century Babri mosque by Hindu extremists sparks off horrendous riots in Bombay and as marauding looters and arsonists turn the city into an inferno everyone is caught in the midst.
the twins get lost in the furore and it is when the parents go searching for their brood that the director Mani Ratnam shows the extent of the barbaric atrocities with morgues filled with mutilated mounds of nameless corpses ,unable to be identified as muslim or hindu ,while the streets brim with rioters burning human beings as live torches and road blocks are set up to filter the opposite faith to massacre entire families .
The horror is both disturbing yet serves as an inspiration to see the folly of the enterprise as it is relentless killing and fiscal waste which is damaging to the whole community rather than just a faith ,and Ratnam conveys this in his subtle prosaic style with a smooth narrative .
The Muslim mother played by Monisha Koirala is a performance that bollywood divulges rarely and the character is rendered in a masterly concept and execution from script to screen as Monisha defies the usual Bollywood formalities to play a pregnant woman with no artifice and latter a hysterical mother in a totally realistic mode, devoid of melodrama or sentimentality, as the screen shows live immolations and the military steps in to impose a tough stance to restore law and order .
This is an ode to the reality of a multi-religious political system that malfunctions and than can bizarrely return to normalcy in a matter of days and the maker has shown the process with immaculate detail on screen with a stunning audio-visual design .
A.Rahman has composed the soundtrack with a brilliant panache where devout muslim songs rub shoulders with disco pop and romantic duets are mingled with national chants for unison .
This is a harmoniously made affective politico-religious gem with a memorable act by Monisha and a vivid audio-visual composition and story-telling by Ratnam and Rahman .

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