I thought it was a great way to set up a character. That was the director’s way of saying that this woman has already seen so much in life that she’s now unfazed. Her fellow passengers are surprised by her reaction and ask her how she didn’t feel scared. Suddenly, there’s an accident and everyone runs out to see what has happened, but she calmly continues to read. The female protagonist of the film is in a train and she’s reading a magazine. It has been a while since I last saw this movie, but there’s a scene towards its beginning that has stayed with me. Every time he laughed, I ended up crying. I’ll never forget her expression in that scene.
There is a scene where she realizes that Sanjeev Kumar’s character too, like her, is deaf and mute. Jaya Bachchan’s performance is simply brilliant in the film. I happened to stumble upon it on YouTube one day, and it just blew my mind. It’s a very sensitive film with great music. This was originally a Tamil film, which I later watched the Telugu version of. I was amazed at how such a simple premise – a man looking for a sip of water – could be used to say such deep things about the society and its people. The film begins with a simple villager, who enters a building society looking for a glass of water but everyone pounces on him thinking that he’s a thief.
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