Subhash K Jha looks back at the moving Yeh Khula Aasma, released in 2012.
It was that great poet-thinker Harindranath Chattopadhyay who said, ‘It’s very simple to be difficult but very difficult to be simple.’ By that logic, debutant director Gitanjali Sinha pulled off a reasonably admirable feat in Yeh Khula Aasma, a simple straight-from-the-heart film about the relationship between a neglected boy Avinash (Raj Tandon) and his lonely grandfather.
The film vaguely echoes L V Prasad’s 1970s tearjerker Bidaai, though not in any overt way. That the grandfather who embraces the boy’s loneliness and insecurities is, played by Raghuvir Yadav, is a happy coincidence and one that fills up the rather austere spaces in a nimble narrative.
The small-town ambience in Bihar, the old sprawling houses with acres of greenery stretching out from here to eternity, furnish the film with a burnished exterior. As for the interiors,...
It was that great poet-thinker Harindranath Chattopadhyay who said, ‘It’s very simple to be difficult but very difficult to be simple.’ By that logic, debutant director Gitanjali Sinha pulled off a reasonably admirable feat in Yeh Khula Aasma, a simple straight-from-the-heart film about the relationship between a neglected boy Avinash (Raj Tandon) and his lonely grandfather.
The film vaguely echoes L V Prasad’s 1970s tearjerker Bidaai, though not in any overt way. That the grandfather who embraces the boy’s loneliness and insecurities is, played by Raghuvir Yadav, is a happy coincidence and one that fills up the rather austere spaces in a nimble narrative.
The small-town ambience in Bihar, the old sprawling houses with acres of greenery stretching out from here to eternity, furnish the film with a burnished exterior. As for the interiors,...
- 5/26/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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