Kalki Koechlin spits Fuck and Shit on the screen; smears the screen. Nasee Babu responds: 'You mean wonderful', and the few in the theatre laugh. In this Hindi film shot mostly in Cochin, there are laughs ... a relief. Rama and me opted first for Veerappan, when son Ganesh debunked the choice. After Sarkar, Ram Gopal Verma has not done anything, he pretends, said Ganesh. But we wanted to see a film; we did not want to read reviews; Nasee Babu flashed from the ad for Waiting; and we went and waited in the Waiting Room, Waiting. An enormous Thank You, Anu Menon. Nasee Babu waits for his wife to revive after the doctors say: 48 hours critical, reports have to come in, the doctors disappear; Kalki waits for her husband and the doctors say: 48 hours critical, reports have to come in. And both talk; chat; trying to get out of their Waiting which they realise they cannot. ICUs, ventilators, Twitter ...new technology to sword Fate and Yama or Karma as Nasee Babu says. Prayers, Kalki an atheist mumbles some bumbles, Nasee Babu gets desperate; Panikkar's coffee and Mollukutty coffee and a drip of Malayalam delighting Rama; there is one needless shot in the film, Nasee protesting with a placard in a Cochin super specialities hospital. Nasee Babu is not comfortable with violence as his good friend Om Puri; in passing, Nasee Babu, Om Puri and Tilakan are world class, are with the best in the world of mime as film is mime. Nasee Babu holds on and with what verve....! Kalki matches shot for shot.... her Fuck and Shit and the younger generation which has little grace, claims Nasee Babu....but she is a dear...her Fuck and Shit makes her a dear. Me could relate to the film as over the last few days me waited as my Mama lay in two super specialities hospitals with and without ventilator; Babu, Anand, Lalita, Ranju, Shyamala waited outside and the doctors chanted 48 hours critical, reports yet to come, tests being done ....Am not the doctor in charge, the doctor in charge on holiday, ATMs running out of cash...We told each other: Wait. Me did not have the imagination to think up the film Waiting. That's left to Anu Menon. Yes, that's what we can do wait, wait in quiet like Nasee Babu or in disquiet like Kalki. Both okay in their own ways. In around 90 minutes, Anu Menon, you have done something you and viewers can be proud of. Thanks again. Thanks Kalki and Nasee Babu.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Waiting
Kalki Koechlin spits Fuck and Shit on the screen; smears the screen. Nasee Babu responds: 'You mean wonderful', and the few in the theatre laugh. In this Hindi film shot mostly in Cochin, there are laughs ... a relief. Rama and me opted first for Veerappan, when son Ganesh debunked the choice. After Sarkar, Ram Gopal Verma has not done anything, he pretends, said Ganesh. But we wanted to see a film; we did not want to read reviews; Nasee Babu flashed from the ad for Waiting; and we went and waited in the Waiting Room, Waiting. An enormous Thank You, Anu Menon. Nasee Babu waits for his wife to revive after the doctors say: 48 hours critical, reports have to come in, the doctors disappear; Kalki waits for her husband and the doctors say: 48 hours critical, reports have to come in. And both talk; chat; trying to get out of their Waiting which they realise they cannot. ICUs, ventilators, Twitter ...new technology to sword Fate and Yama or Karma as Nasee Babu says. Prayers, Kalki an atheist mumbles some bumbles, Nasee Babu gets desperate; Panikkar's coffee and Mollukutty coffee and a drip of Malayalam delighting Rama; there is one needless shot in the film, Nasee protesting with a placard in a Cochin super specialities hospital. Nasee Babu is not comfortable with violence as his good friend Om Puri; in passing, Nasee Babu, Om Puri and Tilakan are world class, are with the best in the world of mime as film is mime. Nasee Babu holds on and with what verve....! Kalki matches shot for shot.... her Fuck and Shit and the younger generation which has little grace, claims Nasee Babu....but she is a dear...her Fuck and Shit makes her a dear. Me could relate to the film as over the last few days me waited as my Mama lay in two super specialities hospitals with and without ventilator; Babu, Anand, Lalita, Ranju, Shyamala waited outside and the doctors chanted 48 hours critical, reports yet to come, tests being done ....Am not the doctor in charge, the doctor in charge on holiday, ATMs running out of cash...We told each other: Wait. Me did not have the imagination to think up the film Waiting. That's left to Anu Menon. Yes, that's what we can do wait, wait in quiet like Nasee Babu or in disquiet like Kalki. Both okay in their own ways. In around 90 minutes, Anu Menon, you have done something you and viewers can be proud of. Thanks again. Thanks Kalki and Nasee Babu.
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