In a remote and poor small village, a film crew suddenly arrived, accompanied by a superstar, and the whole village was boiling. .... the comedy themes that Indian filmmakers are best at unfolds slowly and without hesitation, but you cry when you laugh and laugh.
The arrival of the superstar made everyone feel like they were beaten with blood. The film uses the most comical bridges to express the various commotions of the people in the village. It is so funny that it makes you laugh and it makes you feel absurd! On the surface, these funny scenes are showing an exaggerated social celebrity effect, but behind it is actually reflecting a cold social reality - the entire society's extreme worship of fame and fortune!
It is not difficult to find that although the superstar has caused a great sensation in the village, only the sons and daughters of the hairdresser Biru have truly expressed their love for his films and are true fans. Staring at the superstar, and those who wandered around the superstar by various means, from the innkeeper, the village chief to the principal, all have other plans. One is not expecting to have some relationship with superstars, so as to make a splash, even the kind and simple wife of Biru cannot be exempted from the custom. Do these people really love superstars? No! What they love is the money, fame, and status that superstars represent. Do they really appreciate the work of superstars? No, they only worship the fame and fortune symbolized by superstars. The exaggerated celebrity effect is a manifestation of society's collective kneeling to fame and fortune.
At the same time, the villagers' enthusiasm for superstars compared to their indifference to the poor barber Biru, and the comparison of the villagers' attitudes before and after learning that Biru knew superstars, revealed people's snobbish value orientation, which negatively confirmed the society's attitude towards superstars. The boundless worship of fame and fortune, and the ridiculously ridiculous laughing fruit of the film is actually a strong satire of this social reality.
The film spends 99% of its time showing the social reality of people's worship of fame and fortune, but at the end of the film, it turns the pen to show the sincerity of friendship. The superstar came to the school to attend the ceremony and delivered a speech. In the speech, he mentioned his childhood friend Bilu, detailed the various deeds of friendship between the two, and expressed his infinite thoughts about Bilu. , Simple and touching, not only moved Biru, who was saluting outside the school gate, but also moved the audience. As for myself, I was full of tears. After witnessing various social realities that are influenced by fame and fortune, the superstar's insistence on friendship is like a bright sun breaking through the cloudy sky and shining on the whole earth, and those who have been desperate for society are suddenly rescued.
The ending of this great reversal is not only moving, but also touching. You will remember that even though you know more and more people as you grow up, the strongest friendship is always the friendship established in childhood, because the friendship at that time is the most innocent, the purest, and the one who is isolated from A relationship beyond fame and fortune that can really be called friendship. Therefore, although the speech of the superstar, from the artistic point of view of the film, is a bit abrupt and a little too sensational, but it is so appropriate and true, these words will be recognized by anyone who still has faith in friendship. It is said that The Hollywood superstar Leonardo takes the friends he made before he became famous very seriously, and the reason is the same. At the same time, Biru's evasive attitude towards the friendship with the superstar is also appropriate and true. A former friend became a superstar, but he is poor and destitute. In such a fame-oriented environment, it is inevitable that he will lose his confidence. Especially for someone with strong self-esteem like Bilu, will his friends dislike me? Will my friend think I'm clinging to him? All kinds of complicated emotions have caused Biru and the superstar to drift apart. This is not just a story that only happens in movies. In life, there are many examples of friendship between fame and fortune.
In this society, many people abandoned their friends from the poor and lowly period after they became famous. This is the product of fame and fortune-oriented thinking, but there are also many people who still miss old friends after becoming famous. It’s just that this kind of feeling worships fame and fortune. Now, becoming more and more rare, the film spends most of the time criticizing the common social reality of worshipping fame and fortune, but chooses a rare counter-argument at the end, not to give the comedy a touching happy ending, but To pass on a positive energy - no matter whether you are the one who stands out or the one who is poor, please maintain your faith and confidence in friendship, don't be snobbish to alienate poor friends, and don't be careful to give up rich friends, after all, the world has its own The truth is there!
Excellent Indian comedies have never been purely entertaining the public. Take several works that have been widely acclaimed in China in recent years, from the early years of "Three idiots in Bollywood" to this year's hit "My Personality". God", and the recently popular "Little Lolita's Uncle Monkey God", all of them are wrapped in comedy, talking about various real problems in this world, and finally using positive energy to resolve all these, let People laugh to think, cry to be moved, and the same is true for this film.
Many people don’t understand the positive energy in Indian films, and feel that it lacks the spirit of realism, but I think this is precisely the key reason why Indian films are touching. It can always remind those most simple positive energy that we have forgotten. It touched the softest place in our hearts, so we laughed and cried again and again, and this time, when the sincere friendship burned the reality of the society, the tears came unexpectedly.
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