Harris Films Blog

This is not so much a film review as a tiny attempt of mine to express my happiness in being fortunate in having such a sweet viewing experience as well as to shout out to all those movie-loving people who, despite being aware of the existence and importance of this movie have been keeping postponing watching it to tomorrow that never came: “Stop delaying anymore.. enough procrastinating!” as well as to spread the word among those who are not aware of the beauty and value of this movie or even its existence but may watch it and thus be saved from missing out on such a delicious treat for the eyes and heart when I tell them just because they relate to me in some way, just because their tastes rhyme with mine. People who are really interested can go  here  for a simple and brief review of the movie which gives a clear idea of the plot too. Even at the beginning of it, I knew I was going to love this movie like crazy, just for its cinematography, if not for anything else. Such ch...

Irrfan, the great artist passed away. And you see all around mentions of his movies, especially 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑏𝑜𝑥 , which went to Cannes, 𝑃𝑎𝑎𝑛 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔ℎ 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑟 that earned him the national award, and even 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑖 . However, the films that came to my mind were different, for personal reasons. One is 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑎𝑚 𝐵𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑦 made in 1988 by Mira Nair which I didn’t see most mentioning. She is the director that discovered this gem of an actor for the Bollywood moviegoers. When he, in his late teens or barely out of them, approached her with his aspirations, she wanted to make him the major protagonist of the movie. However, it was a movie about slum children where the characters where children (who were real slum children) of a much younger age group and he wouldn’t fit in. She was sorry about it; she was desperate to have him in the movie somehow. So she offered him the minor role of a scribe stationed at the passageway in front of the shops who scribb...