Inane Heart: An Obituarial Review of SSR’s Last Movie
By: Dr Anu Verma
“Truth is stranger than Fiction” – Must have you often read and heard this in Literary Books
and Conferences.
So, are the feelings immediately after watching ‘Dil Bechara’. A short Documentary like and
unlike usual Hindi Movies.
No new story but surely it is a strange unexpected Death Story by a person who just before
choosing death in real life seems to sermonise lessons on Happy Healthy living in his second
consecutive cinematic creative venture – one last time.
Seemingly a bespoken, customised script made in advance for someone who perhaps never
thought what he is enacting is real and what he is denying is perhaps what he was unknowingly
accepting; thus making real filmy and turning filmy so real.
Reminds of past eras ‘Anand’ which surely was fiction but as said by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
takes one into “willing suspension of disbelief” towards its end with tears in eyes and chorus
laughter in background. Unlike Hrishikesh Mukherji’s blockbuster, this one leaves you with a
smile (though forced) on face and tears suppressed in the deep subtleties of heart (probably to
the respect the message provided as a tribute to the left soul for God’s abode).
Without doubt the best performance ever in, the short historical acting career of a dozen
bollywood movies by Mr Sushant Singh Rajput.
Nothing emotional about it – Mind It! ☺
