The Light : Vivekananda is biopic based on the life of Swami Vivekananda.
The film intends to pay tribute to Vivekananda on his 150th birthday.
The Light : Swami Vivekananda Movie is the lifeless portrait
of the most inspiring leader of the nation. The movie misses the mark
altogether in all departments. Movie delivers an emotionless messed scripted
events and completely boring screenplay. Spoiled by technical heavy-handedness as
well as tonal flaws and a narratively disjointedness throughout, the film can’t
live up to any promise.
As we know, Vivekananda continues to inspire generations with
his thoughts after 100 years. Hence there is a huge expectation from the movie.
The painful feeling is “most powerful spiritual leader of the nation” is being
presented in such a weak manner. Film should focus how he achieves the enlighment,
his thoughts and how he becomes the saint and how his thoughts are relevant
today? The film doesn’t deliver any
integrated effort to achieve the above.
Movie has too many
songs in first half and they don’t grip the audience at all. The major important
part of his life was his own self discovery phase where he questions everyone “have
u seen the God?” and his conversations with Ramakrishna. All of these have been presented in the awful manner.
The actor who plays Ramakrishna has been below par and delivers monotonous
performance. Audience waits and keeps on
waiting for message to evolve and powerful person to awaken our scenes via
dialogues and screenplay but it just doesn’t happen.
Scenes like Vivekananda meeting kings and being there for a
music ceremony adds to the failed direction and audience ends up losing
interest in the movie. Art direction and sets of the movie is another letdown
of this uninteresting epic. Deep Bhattacharya who plays Vivekananda only
becomes tolerable in second half. The Chicago conference 10 minutes is the only
acceptable part of the movie.
The movie's inability to showcase its greatest assets which are
“teachings and thoughts of Vivekananda” and this is the biggest failing. If it
had demonstrated them via right dialogues, its other shortcomings would have
got un-noticed. To summarize, the creators' hearts just weren't in this thing
while making a movie.
If you want you kids to know about Vivekand, then read books
or follow something else but not this movie for sure. Few things which I
recommend, if newcomers don’t know how to make movies, Please don’t touch big
historic characters and present them with your little knowledge of film making
to the world.
I rate move as 1 out
of 5.
I think, we need knowledgeable and intellectual writers to
present Vivekanda’s thoughts infront of this world! Till then final thought
from Swami Vivekananda.
“You have to grow from inside out. None can teach you. None
can make you spiritual and no other teacher then your own soul”.
Director: Utpal Sinha
Cast: Deep Bhattacharya, Premankur
Chattopadhyay, Piyali Mitra
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