Ankhon Dekhi: A Poignant Experience

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By Shyama Krishna Kumar - BANGALORE
Published: 07th April 2014 08:51 AM
Last Updated: 07th April 2014 12:18 PM

A lot of us meet life’s biggest questions on a daily basis, but decide to look away and pass them by because we like to feign urgency and lack of time. And then comes Rajat Kapoor’s Ankhon Dekhi and you’re left to marvel at the grand beauty of the small things in life. Taking his own sweet time to set it up, Rajat Kappor tells the story of Bauji (Sanjay Mishra), a working class man, living in a small rooftop apartment in old Delhi along with his blustering yet unconditionally loving wife (Seema Pahwa), a college going daughter (Maya Sarao), a drifter son (Chandrachoor Rai) and his younger brother Rishi (Rajat Kapoor) and family.

A hilarious meeting with his daughter’s pseudo-rogue boy friend (Namit Das) leads Bauji to the sudden realisation that nothing in the world can be believed, unless it’s been seen with one’s own eyes.

In his pursuit of this nugget of knowledge, the previously religious, hard working, practical man turns into an agnostic/border atheist, jobless, holy being giving away random lines of supposed truth, which to his bewilderment gathers a cult following all the way - a bunch of motley characters who follow him around, hoping to learn from the already confused poor man. “Apni sach dhoondh,” Bauji repeats in vain.

Going on parallely is Bauji’s tryst with his much beloved younger brother, who wants to split from the joint family setting and get his own flat, along with his wife and son.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/Ankhon-Dekhi-A-Poignant-Experience/2014/04/07/article2154488.ece1#.U0NqS_1OWtU

I wish I understood Hindi.