Written and Directed by: Abhijeet Mohan Warang
Won National Award - Special Mention
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
It's a film with a simple setting, a simple premise, few characters, a few events. A seventh grader from a remote village in Maharashtra gets selected for the National Level of Picasso Arts Scholarship. Although to participate, he has to pay a fee of 1500/- by the next day. How he manages to get the money, is the film. Again, it falls in zone of Iranian films, where the entire conflict of the film can sometimes get solved with the prize of the ticket of the film. Here too, with 1500/- the problem gets solved. The conflict is small for us. But, we are engaged to see what it means to them. For the characters, it's a big deal and the father even tells his son that he can't get him the money, and that he's failed him. It's a heartbreaking moment because the father feels like his entire life has been a waste and he feels that he's been a failure, and he doesn't want his son to repeat the same mistake.
I didn't particularly enjoy the setting of the play - but I think they shot it in a way that we see the dullness in the life of an artist. The score keeps reminding us how tough it is. Someone gives him a 100/- reward, and he looks exhausted. He feels, is that all? Am I supposed to be happy? Although by the end of the film, when he finally gets the money for his son and he gets back to work, we see a smile on his face that says that, all of it, all the struggle, hardships, it was all worth it. And that is all that matters. Do you as an artist feel satisfied with your work? Do you feel that the struggle was worth it? If that's a yes, nothing else really matters.
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