10 Best Tamasha Movie Quotes Every Traveler Might Relate To
Imtiaz Ali is a very well known film-maker known widely for his ability to show the reality of the society to the people in the form of entertainment. He speaks facts through his movies and all his movies leave an impact in the minds of the viewers. Tamasha is one such movie. Tamasha was released in the year 2015 and ever since then it has been ruling the hearts of many. Starring Ranbir Kapoor…
This has been bothering me for a while…….how do you stan Junaid Khan’s character in Ishq Tamasha? Dude was problematic af and while it’s been a minute since I’ve watched that drama, isn’t he the reason Rushna’s character died?
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ngl, I am not surprised. in my heart i knew there'd come a day when my....fondness let's just say, for Ishq Tamasha will be questioned. valid, valid..totally valid.
khair, i think you are mistaking my enjoyment of the Mehrab x Mirha story for me stanning Mehrab. not toooo long ago I was rewatching their scenes (cuz i had nothing better to do) and i was tweeting alongside and I remember I was quite enthusiastically cursing Mehrab for being so problematic and downright stupid. there's hardly anything stan worthy about him. his one misunderstanding ruined Mirha's life, his limitless blind love for his brother took him on a revenge path that ultimately took Rushna's life, in fact argument can be made that it was his love for his brother that didn't allow him to have a more positive, healthy POV about himself.
BUT YAAR. THE ANGST!!!!!!!
i squarely blame Danish Nawaz for this. idk why but Junaid Khan is his muse. he gives Junaid some incredible scenes to act and directs them in a totally mesmerizing way. Mehrab falling for Mirha and literally stealing glances of her through mirrors..Mehrab's entire vision focusing on Mirha to the point he didn't even CONSIDER Rushna as something worth noticing..the apology in the rain, him defending Mirha..or bits of him getting restless for an entire night because his entire being was so attuned to Mirha's pain that he just KNEW when she was going through something rough. On a more toxic problematic front..Mehrab seeking revenge from Rushna by locking her out in the rain because he blamed Rushna's selfishness that played a part in Mirha's fall from grace in her Chachi's house..like I don't STAN this shit but i'd be lying if i say i don't enjoy it!
the drama is so aptly titled Ishq TAMASHA. yeh sab tamasha hi toh hai. some are blamed more than others but the blame was everyone's. with Mehrab..i guess i just enjoy well directed, well acted grey heroes with their larger than life passions. Mehrab was that. the one thing the narrative did well was not forgive him for his mistakes. Mirha was never forced become smaller to accommodate his magnanimous character. Mirha, till the end, retained her fire and self respect that had attracted Mehrab to her in the first place. and when all was said and done and these two ended up finding their way to each other with no more hurdles to cross, it was a happily ever after that I believe was earned. Mirha didn't need a man to save her but she had a right to be with someone who could devote his entire life into protecting her and giving her every possible comfort that she could have. even if he got it by getting his hands dirty. and Mehrab most definitely NEEDED someone mature and fearless like Mirha to be by his side to call off his bullshit and remind him of the limits he didn't bother keeping check on.
it's this story that i stan, if I stan anything. not the character.
Who is Laila? Who is Tara, or even Heer? They are not put in a story, to play their role of a lover, turning their lovers against the world or his family. They are not supposed to be conscious of the importance of their part in the bigger picture of Imtiaz Ali’s final thought. I don’t think so. They are not meant to know the mysteries of what lies on the other side of these questions or even be intrigued by these questions. Why?
Because they are beautiful metaphors of the utmost innocence, beyond and above anything ‘worldly’ we have to put up with, to survive.
And when Imtiaz Ali brings together a Qais and a Laila, it is not to create another Raj and Simran but to shake Qais’ or Ved’s world into disorder and bring to him those same questions of what lies “Pahad ke uss paar’’ or what is even the need of that Pahad? Laila, the metaphor, is his way to the answer and sometimes, she IS the answer.
Imtiaz Ali may provide different plots, ambitions, backgrounds; only to ditch the mundane and the superficialities of society, for ‘’…what you love and let it kill you’’ (Charles Bukowski). His philosophy resonates with me and since I am someone who deals with those existential questions day in and day out, I have the greatest urge to be the male character in all of his films.
Jordan in Rockstar holds Heer’s hand and walks her towards the field, away from right and wrong.
Ved in Tamasha finally breaks free from what limits him, with Tara as his guiding Star.
It was when Qais becomes Majnu (Urdu for mad), I knew why I chose to watch Laila Majnu after all these years of its release. I know the kind of effect these philosophical dramas have over me. I am all about the reaction that he gives in one noteworthy scene where he is talking to himself, leading to him getting hit with a stone and starts bleeding. He runs and he laughs. He is celebrating. He felt the rush, he was alive. His love was finally seen! He did not have to hide who he was anymore from anyone for the sake of this illusion of a world, now that he knows Laila is ‘real.’ The blood and the pain being the proof that he was not mad. He had his world in his Laila, walking with him all along, everywhere.
BANGCHAN : “Pasand nahi aayi ending? apni hi kahani hai ... ending badal do! [Tamasha-2015]
Trans: you didn't like the ending...it's your story....you can change it!
It describes BANGCHAN perfectly, like boy came to South Korea holding nothing but only dreams ...constantly doubting himself ...having sh thoughts...but he changed it himself...achieved what he wanted
ok so i finally have interesting stories to tell about my life since college started so i'm probably going to post them here
anyway
lemme talk about what was probably one of the most chaotic mornings of my life.
so. we were supposed to have a sports orientation at 7 in the morning (which was a decision nobody supported but everyone had to go along with it because people were taking attendance). My dumb ass woke up at 6:55 so already i was late.
i go. brush my teeth. and come back to see that my room is locked.
i have no phone no key nothing. legit everything is in my room except for my brush and mf vicco vajradanti toothpaste. and my roommate is nowhere to be seen.
so i run and find her friend (who was thankfully in the floor at the time) and call my roommate, who was already downstairs and also running extremely late
so she legit puts the keys on the floor of an empty lift and is like "stay on the line and tell me when it reaches our floor". and i told her when it did and then fucking RAN to my room and took bath
then full on did some usain bolt level running to the sports center (which i swear to god is some 870548768070000 kilometers away from the hostel)
it was already 7:20 and the orientation was supposed to end at 7:30 so i was like HDCSIGFKDGIHDHBDOHBGDUODUIOYGSYIDGF
and when i reach there i found out legit all they did was introduce themselves and tell everyone who did sports to introduce themselves
and make us into groups and see which group laughs the loudest
while telling us not to do drugs
so basically
i panicked screamed jumped ran and did all sorts of tamasha to go to a class where some theatre kid was instructing people on how to laugh loudly. and i was late for breakfast because of this bs
Mani Ratnam and the Female Experience in Cinema - A Rant
For context, I just finished binge-watching a bunch of films by various filmmakers, and I just realized how difficult some of them find it to let their characters just... be.
I don't know if this is just me, but I feel like Mani Ratnam has mastered the art of portraying characters as they are. What I mean is, a lot of other filmmakers tend to portray characters through their gaze. This becomes very apparent when you watch Imtiaz Ali's films, for example. I feel like he never really lets his female characters be. They are always trying to consciously or unconsciously "fix" the broken main character.
And this isn't just because of the fact that Imtiaz Ali's films generally revolve around the theme of love healing or fixing or completing you. Because if you think about it, Mani Ratnam has also made movies that revolve around the same theme, like OK Kanmani.
In the movie, the two main characters Tara and Adi are both young ambitious people who think that marriage would tie them down and are running from various incidents from their past as well as parts of their own adulthood and identity. All of this is subtly explored in the film, and the process of both of these people healing each other and unknowingly helping each other feel safe accepting these parts of each other is portrayed amidst colorful frames and AR Rahman's beautiful tunes.
But the difference between the works of these two filmmakers is that in Imtiaz Ali's films ranging from Jab We Met to Tamasha and Jab Harry Met Sejal, each of these films show a very one-dimensional female character. She's the manic pixie dream girl when the male lead needs to renew his faith in love, she's angry when he needs to learn something, and she's sad or sick when he needs to prove his love or return his gratitude. It's like the female lead exists only for the sake of the male character, like she's more of a plot device than a person.
A similar fallacy can be seen in Gautham Vasudev Menon's films, too. Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya portrays the story of an aspiring filmmaker, Karthik, falling in love with his landlord's daughter, Jessy. The movie basically covers the suffering of Karthik in love that, in the end, translates into his first film. This is a great premise, but the issue I had with the movie is the fact that Jessy is barely a character. She's supposed to be the female lead, but sometimes it's like her brother's character (which only appears in around four or five scenes) is more fleshed out than hers. Her defining trait seems to be that she's indecisive.
Although GVM had an opportunity to portray the very real struggles of modern Indian women navigating the identity of being a responsible daughter in their families along with being an individual with desires, ambitions and thoughts of their own, he reduces Jessy to a one-dimensional character whose sole purpose in the film is for Karthik to admire, and to eventually become Karthik's muse.
Now, you might argue that this is because of the difference in who the story is about: VTV is the story of Karthik, and Jab We Met is the story of Aditya, so obviously they would only feature the thoughts and aspirations of these characters. This has nothing to do with reducing female characters to plot devices or the amount of empathy and understanding the filmmaker has of women.
To that I'd say, you need to go watch Soorarai Pottru. This film by Sudha Kongara is inspired by the story of Captain Gopinath and is a masterclass in writing good supporting female characters. Sudha Kongara, being a woman herself, knows how to portray a woman in a supporting role without compromising on the personhood of the woman. The character Bommi is bold, loud and ambitious, not only when it's convenient for the male character.
For example, there's a scene where Bommi tries to convince her husband to take tuition classes for someone because the airline isn't doing well. He acts out in anger, and instead of retreating after apologizing a bunch like the female characters of most other films, she tells him to show all his pride and anger in getting his airline to do better. Does this give the male lead a boost of determination, or impact his arc in any way? Not really. That dialogue is just there because that's what that character would've done in that situation. And this clarity on the personhood of the supporting characters, on the layers of quirks and traits that make them, is what most male filmmakers lack.
I feel like one other mainstream male director who is able to accomplish this, to some extent, at least, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali. All of his female characters seem to have some depth, at least. However, one trap that he seems to fall into is boxing his female characters into the Madonna-Whore complex. His female characters are either innocent, shy women who serve the patriarchy with all their might, and only show any signs of boldness or intelligence in the absence of their fathers or husbands, or they're bold, they question the patriarchy and they make their own decisions, but they're tawaifs or prostitutes or just "fallen women."
The complexities of both of these archetypes are thoroughly examined, the story moves without any character development feeling forced, and each of these types of women are worshipped, but the thing is, they're still less characters and more archetypes.
All this to say, male privilege and a historical disregard for the female experience has resulted in most male filmmakers just not knowing how to depict female characters in their films, but Mani Ratnam is different. I don't know if it's because of all the wonderful women in his life and team who are able to express themselves and talk about their experiences using cinema as an art form, like Suhasini Mani Ratnam and Sudha Kongara herself, who worked in Mani Ratnam's team for five years before taking off on her own, or because of Mani Ratnam's tendency to talk to people from all walks of life and actually listen to them with empathy, but he seems to be the only mainstream Indian filmmaker who is able to portray all of his characters, male and female alike, with equal depth.
I recall seeing Jab We Met for the first time when I was in school, and I was captivated by the madness of an unstable and crazy love tale. Opposites attract, and I have long believed in this concept. Imtiaz Ali's films typically weave this notion in a widely acceptable manner. The irony of this is that I've always despised love stories, particularly those from Bollywood. They revolve around stories you cannot even begin to relate to or pictures occurring in the real world. They are dramatic, fantastical, frustrating, stupid, and thought up.
However, Imtiaz Ali has always portrayed stories through his films about characters you would see in real life; some of these characters are a little too ripe, but given the extravagantly exaggerated tales Bollywood has always created, it may be forgiven.
I'll openly admit that I've seen the movie Rockstar on my laptop many times and five times in theatres. I'm not sure there is a word that adequately captures the depth of love that was conveyed in the film. I could watch it a million times without any thought or care, adding it to the small number of Bollywood films that I have found appealing thus far. The reason for this is that it was not an easy task to direct and carry out a story so impulsive and compelling within a "controlled insanity." I was engrossed in a dreamy affair for a while after that, asking myself repeatedly, "What is love if not madness," until reality grounded me in the most unexpected way.
Ever since a friend first showed me the trailer for Tamasha, I had been anticipating its arrival. Every Imtiaz Ali film features prominent themes such as the absurdity of love, the desire for happiness and tranquillity, arrogant ways of telling a straightforward tale, and, in the end, a person meeting a female in the most unusual and unexpected way and enriching each other's lives.
Tamasha is nothing distinctive from it either, but what elevates this beautiful tale even further is that it is fundamentally about two soulmates, their loneliness in familiarity and their connection as strangers. It is the story of a man's battle with his inner self and how lady love helps him accept who he is and what he truly wants to be. Though they do make me feel good, it's not enough because the story is about more than simply love. I was excited to watch how the male protagonist begins to receive the answers he had been wondering about throughout.
It's more about love giving each other's lives additional significance, about realising the complexity of human nature and about two lost souls travelling in the direction of one another and finding solace in each other's company for all time. It's a complicated tale about humans and how frequently they require other people to complete them and give them new life.
There is more to Tamasha than merely finding your true partner these days. It centres on a character who is searching for meaning in his life. He struggles between the person he is and the person he should be, and a series of unfortunate circumstances force him to acknowledge the "tamasha" he has created for himself and his life.
They resemble windows that spring open to reveal other windows, providing opportunities to live a more fulfilling life and experience more spiritual richness. The notion that the film followed the path of a storyteller surprised me. How captivatingly art may capture the imagination of people!
The movie also follows a woman who makes an investment in a partnership, one who communicates her emotions and looks for guidance in a romantic partnership. She also serves as the catalyst, the mirror through which the male lead will ultimately be able to see his true reflection. The one who will help him realise that he is far more than what he believes himself to be and that he is neither average or mediocre. The plot is more authentic and less of a Bollywood tell-tale because the film doesn't attempt to celebrate love in ostentatious ways when it is present or to simulate paranoia when it isn't.
My preference for Imtiaz Ali films is undeniable, and I have complete faith that I will always like seeing them, but this one has felt a bit more like a fantasy. I shall be engrossed in Tamasha's plot and characters for a considerable amount of time, until, inevitably, unanticipated circumstances force me to return to reality.
When Junaid Jamshed (may Allah have mercy on him) said,
Jagah jee lagane ki duniya nahi hai... ye ibrat ki ja hai tamasha nahi hai... tujhe pehle bachpan ne barso khilaya... phir jawani ne majnu banaya... Jab is bazm se chal diye dost aksar... Aur uthte chale jaa rahe hain barabar
All the way of journey I knew the end of the story.
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Amar Singh Chamkila Movie Review ft. Diljit Dosanjh
The film Amar Singh Chamkila, directed by Imtiaz Ali and starring Diljit Dosanjh, has garnered significant attention and praise from various reviewers. The movie is a biographical drama that explores the life of Amar Singh Chamkila, a controversial and popular Punjabi singer of the 1980s, known for his raw and provocative lyrics. Here’s a comprehensive review based on popular sources:
Plot and Direction
Imtiaz Ali, known for his unique storytelling style, brings Chamkila's story to life with a blend of musical brilliance and poignant drama. According to Movierulz, the film serves as a real-world manifestation of Ali's earlier works like Rockstar and Tamasha, focusing on an artist whose desires and dissent shape his life and career. The narrative captures Chamkila's rise to fame, his struggles with societal norms, and his tragic end, all while maintaining a sense of authenticity and emotional depth.
Performances
Diljit Dosanjh's portrayal of Chamkila is widely praised for its depth and authenticity. His performance captures the singer's innocence, determination, and complexity, making Chamkila's character both relatable and compelling. Parineeti Chopra, playing Chamkila's wife and musical partner Amarjot Kaur, also delivers a strong performance, portraying a blend of timidity and strength that adds to the film's emotional resonance.
Music
The music, composed by A.R. Rahman, is a standout aspect of the film. The songs not only enhance the narrative but also reflect Chamkila's provocative style and the socio-political context of his time. Reviewers have noted that the music brings a concert-like experience to the film, making it a melodious yet tragic biopic. The soundtrack has been described as both nostalgic for older audiences and a fresh introduction to Chamkila's music for new viewers.
Cinematography and Visuals
The film's cinematography by Anil Mehta is another highlight, capturing the vibrant and tumultuous era of Punjab in the 1980s. The visual effects and setting contribute significantly to the storytelling, providing a vivid backdrop against which Chamkila's life unfolds. The editing by Aarti Bajaj, which includes a mix of archival footage and dramatized sequences, adds a dynamic rhythm to the film.
Critical Reception
The film has received generally positive reviews, with particular praise for its direction, performances, and music. Gadgets 360 described the film as brilliantly capturing the spirit of Punjab, while Bollywood Hungama highlighted its stylish and entertaining narrative. Hindustan Times commended the film's honesty and outstanding music, noting that it feels like attending a live concert.
Ratings
The ratings for Amar Singh Chamkila reflect its strong reception among critics and audiences. The Movie Blog rated it an overall 7.3/10, appreciating the acting, cinematography, and thematic elements but noting that the plot and rewatchability could be improved. This rating aligns with the general consensus that while the film has minor flaws, it is a compelling and well-crafted biopic.
Conclusion
Amar Singh Chamkila is a compelling film that successfully brings to life the story of one of Punjab's most controversial and beloved singers. Through strong performances, evocative music, and thoughtful direction, the film not only tells Chamkila's story but also captures the cultural and social dynamics of his time. Despite some criticisms regarding pacing and plot development, the film stands out as a significant achievement in contemporary Indian cinema, celebrating the legacy of a musical icon while addressing broader themes of identity, rebellion, and artistic expression.