The Day the World descended Into Anarchy.

                       I woke up suddenly one morning only to discover dead bodies beside me. I wish it was a bad dream, I tried to make it a dream. It wasn’t a dream. Truth is red. I got it that day. I checked my watch. I had to clean the blood off it. It told me that anarchy prevails from today. Bewildered, I walked on to the highway. I found happy people and angry people. Happy because they thought anarchy meant liberty, angry because they can make use of that liberty against their enemies.

I'm free. I got my freedom.

'Wait a second, is it a plot against the world?'

Is this really how anarchy feels like?

I looked at my shadow behind me following me since always. One day my shadow will start speaking to me. It was silent all these days. It observed everything. The day anarchy prevails, my shadow will start speaking. Until then it’ll be the darkest soldier that I’ll come across all my life. Well, I don’t see the shadow speaking yet. May be it needs some time to digest the truth. How do I know if I can trust my own shadow in this irrational world? May be I should excuse myself into a no man’s land. That might help.

‘Hunger for what made these people like this?’

All these centuries we’ve been caged. One day came and freed us from it. As a human I understood how people behave when they’re freed. They look for something new, something big. They found peace in blood, I’ll say.  

‘This system is wrong,’ told half my conscience. ‘Well, it was worse before,’ told my other half.

Was it really that bad? Or was it better when that corrupted leader ruled the nation?

The world has always been hostile to people who wanted to make the best out of it. They lost their temper. They saw the future. It was black. Nothing ever would be better in this world. They understood that it is time to be a rebel. To go not against the world but the filth that filled it.

'Well, I'm ready. Hit me.'

Liberty wasn’t a choice back then. But now, we have enough that we can pass on to the next off springs. Savor it. Liberty din’t meet people in a single day effort. Millions of years have gone into gaining reputation, safety and liberty. ‘Savor it’ said my mind who has been watching the deliberate angst of people who’re taking in anarchy into their blood.

‘Today’s the day.’

‘What day?’

‘Liberty day.’

‘Really?’

‘Well, do you see the walls anymore?’

‘No.’

‘Then today is what I said it is. There ain’t gonna be any walls anymore. We are free with a capital F.’

‘How long do you think it’s gonna last?’

‘That doesn’t matter. Today matters. I’ve got wine in my hand and weed in my head. That’s all matters.’

The transformation from black to white. From democracy to anarchy. This phase, I've been waiting for this all my restricted life. Redemption is all I needed. No one is now there to count on my sins.

After millions of years of fighting against the nature and its contents man came up with a revolutionary idea that changed the world like never before, exploitation. Many people doubted why earth is the only space to live. Many were content that it is the only space to live. I wasn't even there when all the big bang happened. Science was always there. It is inevitable. We just have to find the reason. No intuition is appreciated in science, well, not at first at least.

A group of intellects sat around.

'Told you this day was gonna come!'

No one replied. Smoke filled the entire space. It was of marijuana. Their celebration product was always default, marijuana for anything and everything.

'Look at me, I'm flying.'

Everyone’s tones have gone belligerent that day. They never ceased from being hostile to themselves and to the neighbors. It gave them their own piece of mind. They saw blood like never before. The thirst seemed perpetual in the red-eyed monsters. They thought the game has begun. They never realized the bloody consequences, well, it’s bloody already.

The sand I touched was moist. I could smell the violence. I felt like that police dog where it shouts when it smells blood or any anything suspicious. I shouted too, but in confusion. I wondered for a second that if I liked democracy either. ‘I din’t’ my mind answered. Well, that leaves me no option. ‘ve got to lay path for a new system.

‘They said weed is noxious. But today, it shows heaven’ says a mind that passed across me on the bus. Bus? There ain’t any buses. Yet I met him. I guess I was high too. But not high enough to not realize the truth. Wine was flowing on the roads, so was blood. Marijuana has already been the most common element on that day. It’ll last forever. I took some into my hand, crushed it and took it in. ‘Give me some, I use marijuana but I ain’t a junkie’ said a junkie behind me. I gave the rest of my drag to him and walked with red eyes forward.

To kill eternal suffering was their aim. Well, don’t they see the suffering now? More or less, I thought this would be a good idea back then when I was stuck with the system that does, well, nothing. Now that I face the contrary, I ain’t inclined towards this either.

‘The new system is on the way’ – that’s what I tell to please myself. Hunger grew inside me as I walked down the bloody path and I was afraid that I’ll forget the word ‘haven’ forever. An apple is all I needed. It felt exciting knowing that there is none above us. No one to cage us. Yet, I couldn’t do anything about it.

‘Stop this madness! Stop it, it leads nowhere. You’ll rot and the rats will feed on you if this continues,’ shouted a pregnant. I saw fear like never before. She told me that the past felt better and the future is too sophisticated and stupid and is inevitable. Yet she smiled at every brute that passed her.

 I started planning for the days that are ahead. Nothing seemed like an idea that endures this sight. For a second, I wondered that if money matters in this case, I mean, are people still going mad after money? Money was something that drove the world since its inception. It is pure and irresistible. Greed came along and is now by default. It’s in the blood. The seduction that that smell has chokes everything else. The world wouldn’t be better in any system. It is the people, not the world.

Haider and Kaminey - Two Contradictions.

Vishal Bhardwaj’s take on two of his films – Kaminey and Haider. Haider is a 2014 Indian film based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Kaminey is a 2009 crime drama film both of which starred Shahid Kapoor in the lead role. Amidst Haider and Kaminey he made a couple of other films which din’t see their success at the box office yet were critically acclaimed. Vishal Bhardwaj is considered one of the most brilliant directors in the current times because of his approach to films. His tactics of filmmaking stand as a great deal to the would-be filmmakers. Vishal Bhardwaj’s ideology in filmmaking is clearly seen when he makes intense hardcore dramas which say a lot more than what a conventional filmmaker says.

Kaminey is about two twins who choose different paths in their lives as time goes by. One becomes a thug while the other stands as a stuttering weakling. Both of their lives are jeopardized when they face a problem and the film moves forward as they realize that they only have each other to watch their back. Mumbai underworld mafia has never been an old subject to Indian cinema. Kaminey is one of those prominent films which deals with gangsters and their inner lives alongside other inordinate films such as Satya, Company, Black Friday. The success of the film Kaminey saw Vishal in his role as an excellent storyteller. Today, Kaminey is considered one of the best neo noir films.

The elements that lack in Kaminey are unquestionably seen in Haider especially in terms of the depth of the film’s storyline. Haider is easily one of the best visually gripping films that came out recently. The performances from Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon including and especially Shahid Kapoor make the film what it is. The film seems so silent but speaks very strongly when it has to speak and makes the right point which satisfies us in every way. Both Kaminey and Haider are visually engaging but in Kaminey, the one thing that holds back is the depth in the script. When you watch the film, it seems to be multi-layered with many characters and their specific characteristics but the film is a definite straight narrative with interlaced characters who reveal their attitudes towards their business as the film moves forward.

The comparison between Haider and Kaminey stands as a huge contradiction because the approach of the director towards both the films is unbelievably out of the box. Haider has a very strong point of showing people the consequences of an inner conflict that a character faces and the ultimate result that brings out the realization. The subsequent decision of that realization affects everyone in a way. Haider is comparatively very slow in narrative with limited dialogues where the expressions of the actors speak more. In this case, the director has succeeded in achieving such kind of performances from the actors. The adaptation is very subtly made so that it is relevant to the current world. The film is set in such a space where everything that a person does is questionable by the authorities.

'Haider' learns of a bitter truth which holds the tension for the first half of the film and subsequently goes on a vengeance mission. 

The film is very hard to imagine without the brilliance of the cinematographer, Pankaj Kumar, where the compensation of the narrative comes from the cinematography and as a result, the audiences never get bored. The background score is one central aspect that makes the audiences excited every now and then contributing to the film narrative making it an appealing one.

On the other hand, Kaminey has a firm riveting narrative with haunting background score and never-seen-before performance from Shahid Kapoor. A simple fact is that films like Haider and Kaminey are not everyday pictures that we get to see in the Indian cinema industry and same thing goes to the director, he makes films with tough protagonists who are always in the middle of a conflict. Vishal Bhardwaj's touch to the mafia genre and the deep intense dramas made them the finest films with definite meaning. Both these films are a must watch in understanding the director’s flexibility and his dynamic quality job of directing.