Brilliant piece of filmmaking!
LJP has an extraordinary talent of visualise the abstract. He brings these concepts to life in his film - Churuli. No one person can explain everything that happens in the movie, however, the beauty of it lies in the fact that each person watching it will have a different take on it.
What I find extremely interesting about it is that you can believe what you want about the movie. The movie never spoon feeds you, never even attempts to explain weird happenings. Rather it just shows you, and you can interpret it however you choose to. Some would say that the animation in the beginning of the movie is an attempted explanation, I would say that the animation raises more questions that answers.
It's a piece of art making that will inspire hundreds of discussions about it's possible interpretation. What is art if it doesn't inspire you to think, right?
In a way you could say that Churuli is a modern art equivalent of paintings. It's absurd and abstract, but it provokes you.
Personally, I would love to see vibrant discussions on the movie, which doesn't revolve around its usage of foul language, because that should be the last thing that we take away from it. The language is just a medium to create a conceptual reality. In other words, the cuss words are not just used for heck of it. It's actually used to show the crass, crude and the raw nature of the people in the village of Churuli.
At the end of the day, whether you like the movie or not, it forces you to think, to look inside you for answers and that is what I understand to be a brilliant piece of filmmaking!
What I find extremely interesting about it is that you can believe what you want about the movie. The movie never spoon feeds you, never even attempts to explain weird happenings. Rather it just shows you, and you can interpret it however you choose to. Some would say that the animation in the beginning of the movie is an attempted explanation, I would say that the animation raises more questions that answers.
It's a piece of art making that will inspire hundreds of discussions about it's possible interpretation. What is art if it doesn't inspire you to think, right?
In a way you could say that Churuli is a modern art equivalent of paintings. It's absurd and abstract, but it provokes you.
Personally, I would love to see vibrant discussions on the movie, which doesn't revolve around its usage of foul language, because that should be the last thing that we take away from it. The language is just a medium to create a conceptual reality. In other words, the cuss words are not just used for heck of it. It's actually used to show the crass, crude and the raw nature of the people in the village of Churuli.
At the end of the day, whether you like the movie or not, it forces you to think, to look inside you for answers and that is what I understand to be a brilliant piece of filmmaking!
- swathibal
- Nov 21, 2021