Sutradhar
So wht does a narrator (Sutradhar sounds more chic, doesn't it?) do? He literally walks you thru the story being told, being depicted, being sung. He shows you what is not being shown. He binds the story, he weaves it. He is the communicator between you and the drama on the other side. He helps in interpreting any complexities in the content; he helps in establishing a rappo with the viewers.Well he's not the 'must have’, many stories don't need any narration at all, but then if he's there, he's critical.
Who can ever forget that captivating chant 'mai samay hoon'! Well if Mahabharat had Harish Bhimani, then Bharat ek Khoj had Roshan Lal(enacting Nehru), Hum Log had Ashok Kumar, Mr. Yogi had Om Puri .
The 70mm-phenomenon has its own share of this cult. So we had Amitabh (Amen!) in Lagaan (n many more) , Shahrukh (as a voice-over) in Hum Hai Lajawab, and John Abraham (a pleasant surprise) in Virudh, Om Puri-Naseeruddin Shah duo in Maqbool, Raghuvir Yadav in Suraj ka Saatvaa Ghoda, Gulzar in Pinjar. Gulzar has always been enticing with his lyrical interludes in many songs. Ashok Kumar was a great story-teller, so was Sanjeev Kumar.
Examples of female narrators, I don’t remember many. But Paheli had Ratna Pathak-Shah, Black had Rani Mukerji and Salam Namaste has Preity Zinta.
Definitely calls for some plaudits, this art! wot say?
Song of the moment : Teri Yaad ( Jal - Pakistani rock band)
i remain.
posted by ankydoodle at
9:36 AM
4 Comments:
John Abraham again in Saayaa... awesome that too
and remember Aishwarya in Mohabattein :).
Priti
you guys are cool - how do u manage to remember all this??
spell check : rapport - unless u wanted it like that.
great topic for an article - worthy of going into some magazine!
So many serials/dramas/Movies are remembered by the way they are naratted, by the person who narrates the story to us. I have mostly felt that it resembles, a neutral - an unbiased, opinion to what is actually going on. One more fine example of a sutradhar - is sometimes the letter, which is read all throughout the event, and it then narrates us what happened. One such example of top of my head is a recent one of - "Hazaron Khwahishe Aisi", and a class movie too, a must watch if not already done so.
Oh..yea, by the way, Great Topic chosen from ur ever flowing urn of ideas. Let it flow....
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