The Essential Taj

A scene from the movie "Angrezi mein Kehte hain" by Harish Vyas The movie addresses the quintessential dialectic of not valuing, the most indispensable people of our lives. It takes the viewer through an immersive story of a simple family based at a place much known as an epicentre of Hindu Ascetic spiritual life- Varanashi. The tale weaves magic into the ordinariness of ordinary life as it is, in vibrant detail. Splashes of washed cobalt blue married to peeling yellow walls, and cluttered old furniture, always finding some purpose for itself in the vintage home.          The clothing adorned by the people seem to me, a reflection of the stage and place at which each character is currently in their life in reference to the house itself. The father, in sombre faded shirts and trousers, an ominous reminder of the burgeoning boredom and mundane processes of life that lie ahead. The mother a quiet and elegant woman, oiling the machine of the system that th...