BAHUBALI
Recently, I have seen
the movie Bahubali, which has been the talk of the town for quite some time
now. The movie is good for more reasons than one – photography, selection of
the cast, narration and the direction were all excellent and the music scores
reasonably good. But, the fact remains that the movie-goer is taken for a ride.
When one chooses to see a movie, one expects a complete story-line and one does
not normally return midway through a movie.
But, in Bahubali, the
movie ends without the story coming to a logical end. The villain remains in
his illegal possession of the throne. The hero does not even know why his
father has been killed by the trusted lieutenant/slave. The vow of the hero’s
mother to see the funeral pyre of the villain is not fulfilled. And the movie
ends abruptly, with a message that Bahubali II would be ready in the year 2016.
The fare that is
dished out is incomplete and the audience, therefore, is not at all happy. It
is as though one pays for a plate of idly, is served only one idly and chutney
and promised another idly and sambar the next week and that too, on payment all
over again.
If the story-line is
not complete, it should have been announced beforehand and the choice should have
been given to the film-goers whether or not to watch an incomplete film. They
cannot just announce that at the end of the film. It is not a sequel that they are
promising in 2016, like so many other popular films. It can be a sequel only
when the first version has a narration that has a logical conclusion. A sequel
constitutes only an extension of a story and any remainder of a story is never
called a sequel.
