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“Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” is a small safety warning most of us have grown up with.
What if it was a life lesson?
What if you had to spend every moment questioning everything you saw or heard.
#ErosNowAndForever - #Halahal | Thread
What if it was a life lesson?
What if you had to spend every moment questioning everything you saw or heard.
#ErosNowAndForever - #Halahal | Thread
Question everything: Be it police reports, witness accounts, post mortem reports; even what you knew of your own daughter.
This is the dizzying world Inspector Yusuf Quereshi ( @BarunSobtiSays) and Dr Shiv Sharma ( @SachinSKhedekar) inhabit in @Randeepjha’s #Halahal.
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This is the dizzying world Inspector Yusuf Quereshi ( @BarunSobtiSays) and Dr Shiv Sharma ( @SachinSKhedekar) inhabit in @Randeepjha’s #Halahal.
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At first glance, this pairing of aggrieved, righteous parent and wily cop seems off.
What good could this man—who believes that “paison pe duniya chalti hai”, whose motives are as murky as his earnings—be to a parent’s hunt for truth and justice?
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What good could this man—who believes that “paison pe duniya chalti hai”, whose motives are as murky as his earnings—be to a parent’s hunt for truth and justice?
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Well, that’s the beauty of this film which shows us repeatedly that just like the objects in the mirror, not everything is as it seems.
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Be it a death,
a bank account,
a pen drive,
a college,
a tuition scheme,
a parent,
a corrupt cop,
Or the Mona Lisa, whose possible duplicity our protagonists discuss in one memorable scene in a hotel room.
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a bank account,
a pen drive,
a college,
a tuition scheme,
a parent,
a corrupt cop,
Or the Mona Lisa, whose possible duplicity our protagonists discuss in one memorable scene in a hotel room.
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Named after the venom that emerged during the mythic samudra manthan, #Halahal in many ways is an essay on today’s post-truth world.
As Inspector Qureshi and Dr Sharma uncover the myriad layers of the mystery they are faced with, we see ourselves in them.
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As Inspector Qureshi and Dr Sharma uncover the myriad layers of the mystery they are faced with, we see ourselves in them.
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Us, as we have been at least once in our lives—faced with a massive systemic issue, helpless, tired, beaten, Davids against Goliaths of corruption and propaganda.
When the devtas and asuras churned the ocean to retrieve the amrit of immortality—
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When the devtas and asuras churned the ocean to retrieve the amrit of immortality—
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—a huge amount of venom (halahala) was also unearthed.
Splattering across, this venom devoured all in its path till the god Shiva consumed it, turning blue with its toxicity.
It’s telling that Jha chose to name his film after this poison and not the amrit or the churn.
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Splattering across, this venom devoured all in its path till the god Shiva consumed it, turning blue with its toxicity.
It’s telling that Jha chose to name his film after this poison and not the amrit or the churn.
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@Randeepjha's warning is, perhaps, that the poison of corruption has seeped in everywhere and will have to be consumed by brave men.
A warning, perhaps, that there will always be a choice, but the line between right and wrong will get increasingly blurred.
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A warning, perhaps, that there will always be a choice, but the line between right and wrong will get increasingly blurred.
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But somewhere #Halahal is also a story of hope. Hope, that if there is a flow of poison, there must be a churn. That one day when all the Halahal is gone, the amrit may finally emerge.
@Randeepjha @BarunSobtiSays @zeishan_quadri @SachinSKhedekar #ErosNowAndForever
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@Randeepjha @BarunSobtiSays @zeishan_quadri @SachinSKhedekar #ErosNowAndForever
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