Sid's heart... desires what?
Three friends....go on a road trip to Goa from Mumbai on a convertible Benz.... pull over on the national highway...take turns in driving and sleeping...yup! You got it. I'm talking about Akash, Sid and Sameer and their Dil Chahta Hai. The story that talks about the lives of three urban youngsters and thereby is heavily adulterated with western especially American culture. The film ends by the scene that shows the three friends sitting in the same beach in Goa where they spent their summer a couple of years ago. While Akash and Sameer have come with their wives, Sid is all alone. There he sees his old college mate Deepa and the last shot of the film ends by all the six going for a toast in a restaurant. "This is called character assasination" - Ravi said this statement seeing this. I did not agree first. But this made me to think for a while.... a long while. BTW, Who is Sid? How about the other two guys? When I was trying to get an answer to justify my stand, there came a few reasons in my mind.
Sid is shown as an obsessive lover of a middle aged alchoholic divorcee. Quite an impressive character. Right from the beginning he is portrayed as a soft and genteel person. He never goes behind girls like his buddy Sameer or plays some practical jokes like Akash. He seems to be responsible, reserved and respectable.
What made him to fall for his elderly neighbor? I would say sympathy. We are shown Sid's mom, but not his dad. Maybe there is a story behind it. Maybe Sid could have been brought up by a single mom and hence the compassion. Okay... Why he married his old college mate finally? Again the same compassion and commiseration. He did not see his soul mate in Goa; but he saw a lonely girl who was deprived of her love by her dream boy and laments over the dead infactuation. Poor guy, he couldn't understand that his feelings are merely an understanding of others' sufferings and nothing beyond that. I can go further by saying that any girl in place of Deepa would have attracted Sid provided she had been left alone.
In one way or other I can analogize these friends to the three Gandhian monkeys. Sameer is the one who closes his eyes. He never takes the pain to open and see things around. Just hears to others and talks in a haste. Akash on the other hand never opens his mouth. It is not that he could not do it; it is he does not want to do it. All because of his fear of getting rejected, he fakes his opinion about love and goes to the extent of saying that no such emotion exists in this planet. After talking about these guys, we are only left with Sid and the monkey that has closed ears. Does it mean he never listens to anyone? Could be. He did not listen to his mom, friend or his neighbor that his feeling towards the old lady is unnecessary.
Eventually, I would say Sid is not that matured as seen. He is as confused as Sameer. He is not able to judge his feelings and often misunderstands them. Also like Akash he is afraid of failures. If Akash is reluctant to open his mouth fearing of being thrown down, Sid satisfies himself with whatsoever without getting into the game. In that sense, the silly sameer scores the points. Anyways, there must be something in common among friends...after all they are friends to share their commons. And yeah... it is very hard to find what every one's heart desires for?
Sid is shown as an obsessive lover of a middle aged alchoholic divorcee. Quite an impressive character. Right from the beginning he is portrayed as a soft and genteel person. He never goes behind girls like his buddy Sameer or plays some practical jokes like Akash. He seems to be responsible, reserved and respectable.
What made him to fall for his elderly neighbor? I would say sympathy. We are shown Sid's mom, but not his dad. Maybe there is a story behind it. Maybe Sid could have been brought up by a single mom and hence the compassion. Okay... Why he married his old college mate finally? Again the same compassion and commiseration. He did not see his soul mate in Goa; but he saw a lonely girl who was deprived of her love by her dream boy and laments over the dead infactuation. Poor guy, he couldn't understand that his feelings are merely an understanding of others' sufferings and nothing beyond that. I can go further by saying that any girl in place of Deepa would have attracted Sid provided she had been left alone.
In one way or other I can analogize these friends to the three Gandhian monkeys. Sameer is the one who closes his eyes. He never takes the pain to open and see things around. Just hears to others and talks in a haste. Akash on the other hand never opens his mouth. It is not that he could not do it; it is he does not want to do it. All because of his fear of getting rejected, he fakes his opinion about love and goes to the extent of saying that no such emotion exists in this planet. After talking about these guys, we are only left with Sid and the monkey that has closed ears. Does it mean he never listens to anyone? Could be. He did not listen to his mom, friend or his neighbor that his feeling towards the old lady is unnecessary.
Eventually, I would say Sid is not that matured as seen. He is as confused as Sameer. He is not able to judge his feelings and often misunderstands them. Also like Akash he is afraid of failures. If Akash is reluctant to open his mouth fearing of being thrown down, Sid satisfies himself with whatsoever without getting into the game. In that sense, the silly sameer scores the points. Anyways, there must be something in common among friends...after all they are friends to share their commons. And yeah... it is very hard to find what every one's heart desires for?
posted by Vish at 12:33 PM
1 Comments:
Ravi,
I still stand by my word. His character is not assasined, but left incomplete either due to the director's insufficient characterization or the viewer's inefficiency to comprehend profoundly.
Sid is shown as a calm and composed guy. He is the man who is incapable of differentiating between compassion and love. He even says to Akash that he will love the divorcee even if she does not reciprocate. This is kind of weird.
Since in the last scene he is paired with the college girl, it doesn't mean he fell for her at that instant. This might have happened due to his comisseration for the poor girl.
Again I would say as the character is not well described like Sameer or Akash, and a lot is left to the viewer's discretion. This makes us to think that this guy is a great being in the first and latter his character has been pulled down to a normal person.
Maybe, your suggestion will explain things better. Still there may be questions unless we have some scenes that explains how Sid fall for his girl.
This happens in a lot of movies and many characters still remain as a puzzle. Don't you agree?Ofcourse, if we need so much explanation we must be ready to watch 3.5-4 hr movies!!
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