Review of Bhuvan Shome

1. Almost same pattern we have in this subcontinent , in every country , the Govt. Office of two type : One who is very sincere about his work as a responsibility on behalf of the peoples , Another one who thinks govt. money is to waste, govt. service is for relaxing. In the starting of the film , Bhuvan Shome , a hindi film by Mrinal Sen , it was being established that govt. service holders around Mr. Bhuvan, was not comfortable with the way he works , his honesty , his discipline , the way he works as a govt. officer with responsibility attached with it , creates panic to other service holders. And that lead to continuous backbiting that is an integral part of our society , which is more applied for honest, sincere and disciplined peoples. NIcely established truth by the director in few minutes of this starting of the film. Director filmed it in a funny way by some montage shots and animation but it is a mockery of our societies way of thinking for good , sincere and disciplined peoples. Directly addressing this point clearly mentions the directors awareness of what he is doing and what he wanted to tell to the audience. ################################## 2. Bhuvan Shome is one of the New Wave Cinema of India and in Hindi Language , although Mrinal Sen's works mostly are in Bengali and this film was funded by National Film Development corporation of India. Story that involves the govt. high rank officer of that time in India , who travels to Gujrat for a vacation , met a girl during his journey , gave him a chance to self analysis of Bhuvan Shome , when he is out of his familiar environment. It seems the simplicity of village life was unknown to him and thorugh , Gauri, the character as the village girl, Mr. Bhuvan start to realize other aspects of life and finding out some realization. And understanding that other aspects also affected his official decisions like forgiving the service holder who was convicted for bribery , because in the back of his mind , it was Gouri , for whom , he pardoned that person. Actually , this film in other way , tells the top officials to look for the reality behind. In a society like India or Bangladesh , where good gap between rich and poor still exists , where there are poor peoples who just live for only living , needed to be ignored sometimes for the small misdeeds they are doing due to poverty which was created by long time imbalanced rule of foreigners and many corrupted political peoples. Mrinal Sen addressed that part through Bhuvan Shome. ####################################33 3. With age may be your physical fitness, skin, eye sight deteriorate but the feelings, understanding, reasoning , analysis become stronger than ever , this is what nature fixed us with and that truth is nicely depicted . When Bhuvan Shome come out of his office to the outside world specially to a rural area and introduced to a girl like Gauri , a new world started to come in view for him, that has given him a new angle to see , new thoughts to penetrate his mind, new way of look , which also tells the audience to put their foot to other peoples' shoe , to realize the situation, to understand from other peoples point of view. ######################################