Spoilers forward…
The actors don’t give performances in the best way actors normally do. They enact a sequence of nonetheless lifes, whereas the “acting” is left to the Theyyam, Kudiyattam and Kathakali dancers.
The easiest strategy to describe Rahat Mahajan’s Meghdoot (The Cloud Messenger) is as a timeless love story, and the movie’s largest achievement is that it retains us adrift on this sense of… timelessness. From the colors to the locales, from the micro-directed gestures and performances to the runic dialogues – all the things appears each ageless and of our age. It is elemental. Take the love story between Tarini and Jaivardhan from centuries in the past. The display is painted in earth colors of orange and brown. And once we see the identical pair reincarnated within the modern-day, in a complicated residential faculty, the uniforms are blue: we get sky colors. And each segments are awash with water, whether or not a river or a swimming pool. There’s a tangential reference to the Kalidasa epic of the identical title, the place a yaksha was separated from his spouse. This Meghdoot is suffused with an analogous sense of longing.
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