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MCT:October 12, 2008A very heart-wrenching movie about a deaf and blind girl trying to make her way to be part of a normal society and a once drunk but passionate teacher trying to prove that his method in teaching the girl is bound for success. They both appreciated knowledge and education but find it hard to have bond with each other at first but in the end, I guess everything was flowing smoothly.But don't say that there's no speed bumps in between. I love how this role is so fresh for Rani Mukherjee that I thought, now I can see the talented side of her.I love how this movie doesn't focus on the Hindi's traditional musical theme (there's no song at all yey!). This movie's strength is basically due to their strong script and strong acting skills from Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee and the young girl(pardon I'm not really sure who the young actress was) playing the blind girl during her childhood.Absolutely stunning.But most of all,I love one of the theme story of this where you can't really decide how your relationship with your teacher a.k.a your bestfriend will turn out to be.You can't simply decide that person will remain as your teacher, your lover,or strictly a platonic friend or a father.You just wouldn't know.As I see it, though most people or even the characters themselves see both of them as strictly a teacher and a student, I see something even deeper than that.I will keep it as a secret of my own.Please watch this movie.I recommend this the most for a Hindi movie.
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MCT:August 25, 2008
Another Sanjay Leela Bhansali gem. An extremely touching drama about a deaf, mute and blind girl, and her teacher who brings a ray of light into her world of black. Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee were above par in this film, Rani should definitely consider more serious roles like this in the future.
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MCT:August 20, 2008This film is an intense film. A must see. Rani and Amitabh were great. Rani acting to be both blind and deaf was superb. I never seen such great acting from this 2 actors before.
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MCT:June 20, 2008
This is by far the best character role that I have seen Amitabh play. Rani Mukherjee was superb, and at times I felt she excelled Amitabh. The story is pretty simple and has been time tested in Hindi movies, but the overall presentation in the movie leaves an unforgettable impression on ones mind. The photography in this movie is simply outstanding and it seems that Bollywood has finally emerged from its cookie-cut masala formula and getting ready to make a niche in world movie industry.
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MCT:April 26, 2008
I loved this movie.
Basically, because it is very touching. The acting was awesome. The directing was wonderful.
I actually liked the fact that it has no songs. Songs don't fit these types of movies. Unless they're about the same subject, of course.
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MCT:April 25, 2008
I usually do not like Rani's movies but I loved this one. She acted amazingly and the story was very impact full to bring tears in my eyes.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
mr bachans acting was brilliant here..i dont watch many bollywood movies..but this was my fav...i have watched it 5x.. india should make more moive like this less dancing songs and fights..this was purely brilliant
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MCT:March 18, 2008
The movie shows us what Bollywood is capable of...brilliant performances...well executed movie.
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MCT:March 17, 2008BLACK is a present-day, Sanjay Leela Bhansali interpretation of Helen Keller's exceptional life and the role Annie Sullivan played in her life. The real-life story was presented on the big screen in the Hollywood flick THE MIRACLE WORKER [1962], which starred Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft.
On the whole, Black is definitely worth the cost of the ticket.. -
MCT:December 13, 2007
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MCT:November 30, 2007
Based on the story of Helen Keller, the story follows the girl like Keller, an extremely difficult role to act, going all the way to college with so much struggle until her mentor became really old and suffer from Alzheimer. Many real teaching methods have been applied to the film. It's good for people who wish to become a teacher or a family counselor in the future. A must watch!
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MCT:November 6, 2007
awesome and mind blowing acting... thhe best acting of Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee in there career
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MCT:September 26, 2007
what actings.....beatiful...rani the lil girl n amitabh..wonderfull....n to top it all great sroty...though i think its copied...but still who cares..
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MCT:September 5, 2007
After block busters in Bollywood, Bhansali shows what he can deliver via a grand off beat movie. Class apart in display of acting skills.
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MCT:July 27, 2007
All I can say is wow! It echoes "The Miracle Worker" but only for a moment and then goes on to some wonderful acting and I love the lighting/sets etc
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MCT:July 17, 2007
With Black Sanjay Leela Bhansali has secured his position as the coveted director of the film industry! Hats off to him, Rani and Big B for pulling off such a magnificent performance!
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MCT:July 13, 2007
First things first. On Easter Sunday I pondered whether I should go see the film "Black" -- a film about which I had heard nothing in the popular press, until I saw its title on the cinema's Marquee. Not surprising really, since the film appears at this point to have only been released in the specialty Hindi-language Bollywood film circuit in Canada. Which is a real pity because if I had not made an accidental point of presenting myself at a movie-house that was actually screening the picture, as a Euro-heritage native-born Canadian I would likely still be walking around in a typically North American ethno-centric film fog about this excellent picture.
When I initially asked the theatre's ticket clerk what "Black" was about, his description hardly got me excited. It's the story of a teacher who helps a disabled woman. It didn't sound terribly engaging to me. But boy, was I wrong! While I am not a complete stranger to a number of Bollywood-type films, I'm lucky if I see one or two in a year, and at that, it's usually been because someone else has suggested it. While few of these "B" class movies "deserve" screen time in mainstream North American theatres, this is hardly the case for "Black". It is not a "B" class flic.
If only because the film's Director Sanjay Bhansali co-wrote the script, this obviously allowed him to imagine how he might want to capture the story with beautiful emotionally-charged cinematography. And what a sophisticated symbolically packed feast it was at that! Yet backing up the impeccable imagery was an equally top-drawer story. One dimension tells the story of a once well-regarded teacher who has come to the end of his financial, if not his existentially-justified rope, a man whose talents are neither fully recognized or completely appreciated. Then during this 11th hour turmoil, he receives a letter asking for help from the parents of a young deaf and blind girl. Her story is of course equally gripping, a girl effectively trapped in an internal prison in which language, a vital connector within herself as well as to the outside world, is missing. In this sense, both characters need one another, for both are on the common and all too true brink of being "disposable people" - people ripe relegated to become out-of-sight out-of-mind statistics in a faceless institution.
This feature of the story speaks to a possibility few of us care to contemplate, namely: "Who would care for me if everything fell to pieces?". It is a possibility reminiscent of and anchored in a time when as children we depended entirely on our parents for nurturance and love. This I think is what gives this story its privileged access to the inner-recesses of our deep emotional need for interconnection. And because it is a story told as much with emotionally poignant visuals as it is with emotionally gripping dialogue, these have a way of by-passing the usual intellectual filters we erect to both define and "protect" ourselves from one another. This film will have none of that. And the emotionally-forceful performances offered by the male and female leads simply seal our fates, leading us to co-journey with them in their heroic quest to find the light that will illumine us as much as them.
Few are the number of viewers who could experience this film and not leave better people, if only because it succeeds in allowing us to recognize the value of caring for one another as the greatest triumph, if not the most important ingredient in all of our other successes as a species. In short, this film strives to restore one's faith in the value of life and love, and does very well in that task. And what more can anyone ask from any motion picture? It is a work of genius, well executed, and a triumph of film-making, regardless the culture. Which is why I believe it deserves a lofty 10. -
MCT:May 11, 2007
Rani Mukerji's award winning role of a deaf mute who is also blind but breaks all boundaries by trying to make her way into society. Truly heartwarming, and Rani is just so spectacular in this one! Same goes for Amitabh who co-stars
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MCT:April 18, 2007
This is d best Indian movie eva.....its abt a little girl's (born blind and dumb) struggle 2 be sumone in d society. I cried wen i watched it.......I recommend ds for an oscar, emmy, etc
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MCT:April 6, 2007
Loved it , it's a very nice movie!! Amitabh is obviously good & Rani?? Although i had seen other movies of hers long time before this one.....she became my favorite after i saw the way she acted in this movie!!
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MCT:March 21, 2007
how do you teach a kid born blind and deaf and mute? how do you actually communicate? tats what the movie is about. very touching! a must watch!
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MCT:March 14, 2007
A grt artistic movie, with really artistic performance of Rani. A blind girl by birth with mental problem, lives among her family, her siblings, makes friends, goes to school, gets education and finnaly graduates at the age of 40s, but she does graduate. She does get her degree and does prove she made it, just like the rest of students who get every previlliage of their abilities unlike her. This movie really displays a grt piece of art from Amitabh as a master who teaches the little girl how to live and how to fight with her disablitity. A really interesting movie by Sanjai Leela Bhansali.
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MCT:March 13, 2007
this film is very brilliant, that i can image that i can take this deaf-blind girl's place to achieve and dream to come true.. you should watch!
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exhaustedsoul90posted 632 days ago -
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DIS MOVIE IZ GREAT LIKE AWSOME ..I LUV LUV IT ..NOT BOLLYWOOD LIKE @ ALL:D!!!
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OMG GREAT MOVIE ..I LUV LUV IT DIS MOVIE IS GREAT LIKE AWSOME NOT BOLLYWOOD @ ALL
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