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The Light: Swami Vivekananda
- 8/26/2013 9:33:40 AM
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Cast: Deep Bhattacharya, Premankur Chakraborty, Gargi Roychowdhury, Biswajit Chakraborty, Piyali Mitra, Courtney Stephens
Direction: Utpal (Tutu) Sinha
Genre: Biopic
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes
Story: On the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, the film attempts to pay a tribute to Swami Vivekananda, one of the most revered philosophers and Hindu monks of India.
Review: The film attempts to capture the life, ideals and beliefs of the much revered Swami Vivekananda. His take on caste, religion, God, family, marriage, social work and well-being of his country and people forms the story. His devotion for Swami Ramakrishna is also an integral part of the film.
Biopics are generally exaggerated or incomplete. They either glorify the lead character or underplay his or her brilliance. Either way, they often make for an interesting watch as it's intriguing to see iconic events unfold in front of your eyes as they may have happened years back. The Light: Swami Vivekananda doesn't belong to either category. It's a kind of biopic that makes its influential subject look so uninteresting that even a believer might turn agnostic.
For starters, the film is loaded with umpteen un-melodious songs. The songs are probably more in number than dialogues. The dialogues have their own tragedy. The actors are extremely loud and speak in slow motion, making you wonder if they were instructed to do so, since the film is set in the 19th century. Whatever the reason,
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