pani wali aurat - my two bits

I must say, I have nothing but un-maligned and dedicated admiration towards any movie that Shyamalan makes. Though my journey started with his fourth movie – Signs, and I never saw The sixth sense until recently, I admire the guy a lot. So even thought the world will criticize “The Lady…”. I won’t.

Not because I am a fan of his. But because I liked the movie. And those who didn’t, should try and understand the theme of the movie first, his motive behind making this movie and then think of criticizing it. Though the move should get its share of brickbats. As it’s quite….lets say difficult to apprehend and weird. But not bad.

The movie does not share Night’s typical twist with his older ones and unlike the others, the whole story is narrated to you in an animated prologue. The rest of the move is just different parts within that story. So if you are expecting a clinching climax, forget it and concentrate on trying to understand the movie rather than waiting for it to unfold before you.

Because believe me , if you do that, you will never know when the movie got over and that’s why I like movie. It’s straightforward, the more you try to understand it, the more perplexed it will seem to be. Its simple bedtime story, it is supposed to have the type of characters which it has.

The fun part is that Shyamalan has made the main asshole in the movie a film critic. And not just any critic, but one so arrogant he convinces himself that his keen knowledge of horror movie construction will allow him to survive an encounter with the scrunt (one of the monsters) unscathed. Which has enraged their types and the resultant idiotic reviews for the movie.