TAMASHA

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Sanjita mohanty
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 Why always the same story?' being the tag line of the very famous movie Tamasha by Imtiaz Ali portrays various emotions of a human being which knows no limit. The lead role is played by Ranbir Kapoor as Ved who does not restrict himself in displaying feelings and sentiments which is apparently not acceptable by the society at large. Ved basically is a person from the corporate world living a very monotonous life among workaholics which actually is very frustrating to him as a person but he has gradually adapted himself to such kind of lifestyle. Now coming to the tagline as mentioned above Ved is very much into stories and mythologies. He grew up listening to stories which were narrated to him by a road side story teller who often mixed up the story lines. When once interrupted by Ved, he contradicts him by saying that nothing actually was different among all the mythologies and epics, they all were the same, they all had the same views and ideologies. He also points out the fact that Ved's own life story was the same as theirs. Ved being into stories was also a very good story teller. In the end of the movie he convinces his dad that he did not want to continue his job by showing him his extraordinary talent of storytelling.

 

   To escape the monotony in his life, Ved takes a week off from his daily duty and goes on a trip to Corsica where he meets Tara. There is a scene in the movie where Ved decides to fake his identity as "Don" and similarly Tara as "Mona darling”. He says that he could possibly be in any form and any character he wanted to and did not have to think about the people around. “What happens in Corsica, stays in Corsica" is a dialogue from the movie sums up all the above explanations. Tara is really fascinated by the character of Don played by Ved and eventually happens to fall in love with it. Now talking about Don's character, he portrays himself as a person who did not care about the stereotypes present in the society rather questioned about the presence of these stereotypical thoughts. He was someone who conversed with the hills and mountains, drank water from the lakes, never got tired of exploring, and of course could build up innovative stories and entertain the crowd. After returning from Corsica Ved again switches to his previous routine which Tara is not able to accept. She kept questioning his real identity and always made him realize that he actually was pretending to be what he was at that point of time whereas his real identity was the character of Don enacted by him back there at Corsica. Throughout his life Ved never could convince his father that he was not meant for engineering and specifically hated maths as a subject. There is this clown introduced in the movie which apparently is a mockery made on his monotony and obligations.

 

    In between the scenes, Ved often makes an imagery in his subconscious mind of the stories and mythologies narrated to him and moreover relates those to the incidents taking place in his own life. There is a scene where he asks the road side story teller about his own future story who then accuses him of being a coward and restricting his hearty feelings and desires due his fear of the society. This is when he realizes that only he could change his own story. My personal views after watching this movie were that we all have our emotions poured out on the incidents taking place accordingly but all that makes a difference is the only fact that we fail to express ourselves totally (as in 100 percent) in order to impress the society. We always express our personal sentiments keeping in mind the limitations and the restrictions that the stereotypical thought process of the society has set for us and as a result add on to our own loss.

 

 

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