SWAMI
Choreography at it’s best!
By Vidhushi Tikoo
Rating:- * * *
Dancing is the poetry of foot which Ganesh Acharya has well mastered for past soooo many years and is perfect in making others just right at it , but a Choreographer changing his course to ‘Direction’…that seemed something to look forward to. And after seeing ‘SWAMI’ Ganesh Acharya has left no ends open to criticize him for his beautiful choreography of the film. The foremost credit Ganesh deserves is for his choice of actors. It is an absolute performance based venture.
It is a story about you, me and everyone around us. Very plainly, the emphasis is laid on our lives and every little thing that matters to us.
It is one movie where you will find everything perfect except of the fact that the movie is a bit slow. With admirable camera work by Lenin and wonderful dialogues by Muazzam Beg, the movie makes way through your heart to your soul. The movie has maximum songs as background and it gives sensitivity to the scenes, screening the talent of Nitin Arora and Sony Chandy with undoubtedly excellent work on lyrics by Sameer.
It’s a emotive movie about responsibilities, desires, love, loss and life.
The story of course…
…is about ‘SWAMI’ (Manoj Bajpai), who lives with his wife in southern part of the country in a village. His life revolves around his wife ‘Radha’ (Juhi Chawla) who gives birth to their son after waiting for good long 10 years. Both new parents dedicate themselves in looking after their son Anand (child-Sidharth Gupta) and looking in best of his interests. They move to Mumbai for better education of their son…. and Radha dreams of Anand having best of everything and him getting a job in America someday. She in due course of time comes to know about her husband’s fascination of having a ‘rocking chair’ and tries to persuade him to use his collection of coins of 5 to buy his long felt desire. However, Swami refuses her request.
Fate having stored a different road in their lives, Radha falls sick. Swami starts overtime to put in money together for her surgery. Radha uses all the money including his coins thus buying and leaving him forever with his ‘rocking chair’.
The story goes ahead … their son growing up and turning into a fine chap with an MNC job and a pretty girlfriend, Pooja (Nehha Pendse).
Anand(Maninder) along with taking care of his father keeps on trying to fulfill his mother’s dream of getting a job in America . In due course of time, he gets married and becomes a father. But when the time arrives for him to go to U.S.A , there falls a hitch . His new company cannot have him take his father along.
Swami, wanting to fulfill his wife’s only dream persuades Anand to go for his new job in America without him and spends his life living in an Ashram with his Chair.To Look Out For….
Excellent performances by all the actors including the small Anand(Sidharth Gupta) . Loads of humor in midst of such a film that has a serious element added to it. Excellent camera work by Lenin and wonderful music.
Not To Look Out For ….
The movie is slow paced and you have to be patient enough for that. Another hiccup is too many close-ups. However, the directional work is excellent and camera handling is something I don’t have words for…the movie has too many close-ups which sometimes seems getting too edgy.