Paheli – Human Nature
Rani Mukherjee and SRK in Paheli, a Bollywood movie. I am an NRI, translated into: no-real Indian. I follow Indian cinema in my quest to find only one million original films before humanity as we know it disappears. I will use the term Indian cinema sparingly because I only have access to Hindi films, not Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati and other languages. Ghost films Paheli, based on a short story by Vijayadan Detha was directed by Amol Palekar. This 2005 film definitely taught me a lesson. Don’t judge a book by its cover Nonqaba. Paheli is about ghosts and puppets, and I don’t do ghost films. Hey wait! There was an exception some years ago. I saw Truly Madly Deeply directed by Anthony Minghella at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto and loved it. What do I have against ghost films? They are not real. So, I thought. Paheli is not about ghosts. It’s about human beings, and how horrible they are. I like the way the director quickly put the s