First show, last thought

You, me aur Hum

Even as the main road in Sanjaynagar is getting tarred and straightened out, I thought that I could iron out my thoughts early this morn’. By posting a blog.

My team completed a release on last Friday, so we thought we’d head out to a movie-and-lunch session on Monday. We booked online tickets to the latest release ‘You, me aur Hum’ (literally tranlated to ‘You, me and Us’). It was the first show of the season, so we felt mighty good about walking in to the theater (small pleasures, what?)

It was good, quite good. The storyline was a delicate yet powerful one. Boy-meets-girl, gets married to her. What initially was construed to be minor forgetfulness of the wife turns out to be Alzheimer’s. Lapses of memory loss- particularly short term memory.

The heroine plays the victim of the disease very well. The first terrorizing incident she experiences is when she is stranded on the road, unable to remember her home address. She fumbles for her cellphone and desperately tries to call her husband- if only she could remember his name!

The first half could have been better edited, particularly the mediocre song sequences. And the rather bothersome jokes. But we got to give it to Ajay Devgan (the director). He got it right in the second half- the theme hits us in the solar plexus. Scene after scene unfold to depict the pathos, the sadness of both the wife who is suffering and the empathizing husband. The husband goes through his own agony by trying to deal with the situation in the best possible manner, and yet going on a guilt trip when he relents to the doctor’s advice of moving his wife to a Care Center.

Good acting, and a movie that makes you totter to the exit, as you choke through the storyline.

To us who have our minds intact, let’s thank God each day for being able to make some sense of this world around us. But to those who drift into a world unknown to the rest of the world, getting back can be a trauma in itself. Shows clearly that the brain, the intellect and the mind are interconnected. But the one who rules is clearly the mind.

You can see the movie. But keep that popcorn packet handy to chew off those tense moments.