Breaking ‘Black’
The Auteur and his themes Revenge clearly has been Anurag’s most trusted weapon. For all the rage that resides within the confines of one's mind, revenge seems to be the most obvious and handy and justified option present in front of any oppressed. Revenge is a huge element of popular genre storytelling and in fact was one of the main subjects for the ‘western’ genre in Hollywood [1] . Innumerable Bollywood formula films are based on revenge. But ‘revenge’ here may also be looked at with more depth besides being a popular formula to tell a story. Not to make a simplistic reading of personal life and its relationship to his films but Anurag has been the underdog and a lot of his films have this unrelenting spirit of revolt as a rebel, maybe even an involute revenge of sort. His films though, do not glorify revenge; but mostly rise above to question its very existence. The 1993 Bombay blasts shook the nation to its core. The battl...