Preview:
Indian cinema is not only tons of songs, fights, love sequence and creepy dialogues, but there exists realistic bioscope too.
Nothing has changed from Stone Age to internet age in terms of philosophy of life. Lesson of life can be learnt from any age of time. Development and technology can go on and on but the way life happens has remained the same.
Struggle to survive, human being's KASMKASH to solve day to day problems remains same.
“Current” the movie, though is set in 90s and is woven around a simple story of a farmer struggling to make a payment of his electricity bill, before electricity department cuts off the power supply to his borewell pump set, yet it teaches many lessons of life and demonstrates colours of a festival, called LIFE.
Review:
The movie starts with no drama baji, or ENTRY of heroes. It starts simply with the scene for which the movie is all about.
You are shown the subject of movie straight from first cut scene. A farmer family working in their land and the main focus of the movie, the “pump set”.
The characters are developed slowly and viewers get involved in the movie slowly without their knowing.
OM Puri, the complete actor in himself, make the character of a farmer and caring husband very well. Deepti Naval, as always plays the character of farmers wife with pin point perfection.
The movie is shot in Gujarat, Surat and depicts life of sugarcane farmers and working culture of government offices, electricity board.
The screenplay is too good and smart that it keeps you involved with the theme of the movie, which is electricity. This is done by having an electricity equipment in almost each scene, i.e. transmission lines, poles, towers, wires, pole mounted transformers etc. When you see the movie, observe by yourself. You will also be amazed with this smart work of screenplay.
Screenplay is also well crafted in many other scenes, for example, travel in rural area buses, office work in a typical Government electricity board office etc.
Corruption, Ji Hujuri, typical village people, working method in electricity board office and political rally are smartly and truly shown in movies.
Scenes like, explanation of sugarcane farming and connection to politics, Babu explaining the way the payment made by farmer travels from one desk to other, etc. are shown very smartly.
The movie becomes intense slowly as the story develops, and you start thinking about the character’s pain to make his due payment of electricity bill. You tend to think that this struggle should end as you start feeling the pain of the farmer yourself.
The electricity is cut off due to non-payment of bill and pump set of Velu (played by OM Puri) stalls and the water supply to Velu’s farm is suffers. Velu struggles, visiting City every Monday to pay his bills but fails every time due to various typical working culture prevailing in government offices.
Velu, in grief even tries to water his farm from the far away well with the help of pots but falls ill due to excess hard work and his farm and wife struggles more with him. The fear of crop getting wasted in want of water makes the situation tensed. After getting well again, Velu again visits city to pay his bills but fails again as the bill collection centre is closed due to visit of political NETA in the area.
Bringing people from villages by paying them to attend rally, taunting opposition for not letting party to fulfil the promises towards farmers in speech of Neta are well captured in movie.
Till last two minutes of the movie you keep thinking how this all will end as you along with character of the movie find no hope getting the problem to end, suddenly the pump set pours the water again after being stalled in want of electricity for a long.
To know how the struggle end, I recommend to watch the movie by self.
Happy cinema.