"BLACK" is beautiful !

A good, strong story conveyed in little over 2 hours in a stunning way.

I didn’t get to see Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Devdas, but I felt lucky not to have missed BLACK. It depicts the story of a child who is born blind, dumb and deaf and how she gets a teacher / guardian who transform her life from poltergeist like, arrogant child ill-treated by her father into an educated, cultured and a graduate, very well portrayed by Rani Mukherjee.

Amitabh, as I came to know through some of the magazines, didn’t receive a single penny for the role he played, brings the real teacher before our eyes who displays a ‘never-say-die’ attitude even when the child’s parents had left all their hope on reforming their child. For the girl, her teacher is ‘the world’.

Unfortunately, the teacher gets gripped by Alzheimer disease by which he forgets his past and the story ends with the girl slowly repaying her debts by nursing and bringing him back to his senses in the same lines of how she was taught by him.

The director could have still taken the easy route of performing a surgery to bring back her visual senses (the family of the girl is portrayed as a rich family and question of affordability could not have risen) and taken the story, but some essence of message conveyed would have got lost.

This is a serious movie and not an action oriented or romance filled type. So get a copy of VCD / DVD and watch it before it gets BLACKed out from your memory.