Train and River as Metaphors in Parallel Cinema

           Train and River as Metaphors in Parallel Cinema

Indian Cinema is a very huge. In this many variation are there Like Parallel Cinema. Parallel Cinema is a one movement in 1945 to 1990 in India. In the year 70 to 80 Hindi cinema much influenced of parallel cinema. Satayajit Ray is one of the greatest in 20th century cinema movement in India. His Apu trilogy was a milestone in Indian cinema.

Parallel Cinema is different from main stream cinema because main stream cinema made for commercial perspective and parallel cinema made only for artistic view, based on realistic , showcases social awareness and they can't attract audience and gave new ideology. Not like “ MASALAKIND OF FILM” and not have more commercial aspects.

Many good actors came in Parallel cinema for like Sabanaa Azami, Nasrudin Shah , Rachana Pathak , Supriya , Smita Patil , Om Puri , Amrish Puri, Girish Karnad etc.

But the concept of parallel cinema is still difficult to understand, because many commercial films also gave artistic and realistic films also and some time commercial aspects can't differentiate from parallel cinema. Some people said that parallel cinema is like offbeat but always it can't.

Some examples of well known directors of parallel cinema like Anurag Kasayap, Bassu Bhattachary, Shekhar Suman, Gulzar, Rushikesh Mukharji, Anurag Bhatiya , Nana Pulisikar, V. Santaram, Mahesh Bhatt etc. They don't used heavy tretment but work on motif, subject and object,because it is based on elementry. This type of parellal cinema don't achieved good production cost also and this types of films worked on out of formulla and used some special treatment.

Examples of parellal movies like Khamoshi, Anand, Jagte Raho, Machis, Pyasa, Saheb bibi aur Gulam, Pather Panchali, Do bigha Jamin, Bandini, Achanak etc.

Movie made with the used of several technique, treatment and metaphors and gave the real charm. In many movies Train and River used as a metaphors. Because Train in India are not just transport medium, but the soul and heart of India. People emotionally attached with Train with the help of Train film. Maker pre- owned the various forest, cultures, long rail road, beauty, journey, life and death of people. For ex- Sholay, Swades, Dost, Burning train, Name sake, Gadar, Parineeta, Jab we met etc.

“ Railway Fan” . Train exhibit in different concept like love story, commute is important, some political and social problems like Bomb blast, during the partition time train play vital role, accident in Namesake this is the main concept with it. Many songs also popular related with train like “ Mere sapnoki rani” , “ Gadi bula rahi hai”, “ Chaiya chaya” etc. Because Bollywood and Indian Railways are two major unifying forces. And some name also came from the train name for ex- Life in metro etc.Train demonstrate the struggling life of people and society.

River, In India we have many rivers because we have good heritage also. People warship's river as a Mother. The name of India also came from the river Indus. In cinema river main-ally used for display natural view, beauty, Romanticism, culture and good location, It show the emotion, devotional used for purity and as a divine perspective.

Ex- movie like Abhiman, Mohenjo Daro in this movie sindhu river described and connect history with it very well. Khusbu by Gulzar, Pakiza by Kamal Amrohi, Ganga Jamna Sarsvati, Heena description of satalaj river, film Satayam , shivam, sundaram and Aparajito by Satayjit Ray in it he described the Banaras, Varansi and the Gangaghats. River reflect the village culture also.But rare movie prove the realistic situation of river like a big problems of pollution. So movie reveal history and cultures very well.

“ Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”

                                                                 - Martin Scorsese