This is a Hindi language film starring Nana Patekar, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri in equally pivotal roles.
1992 is a year of two hard hitting films that will stay with you for their intensity. Both of them have Nana Patekar in key roles. While Disha is one from the art film genre, the other is Angaar, a crime and gangster genre film. Both are a highly recommended watch.
Disha is a study by director Sai Paranjape on the theme of urban migration. The compulsions and temptations around it. The struggles involved by those who migrate and those left behind. And the alternate choices made by those who desist migration and stay back. While the story here is about migration to Mumbai from a rural village in Maharashtra, it's a story that can be retold about many such economic labour migrations. Significantly by the Malayalee population out of communist Kerala for job opportunities - either again to cities like Mumbai or to the Gulf.
The verdict through three hard-hitting parallel stories is that migration - while bringing economic benefits to some - comes with a price. Loneliness, loss of relationships on the personal strata. And breakdown of social and family structure, and corruption - violation even - of cultural norms and values from a broader perspective.
There is also a message of hope in the character of Om Puri: A message that perseverance pays, and that those who stay back might well strike gold!!
1992 is a year of two hard hitting films that will stay with you for their intensity. Both of them have Nana Patekar in key roles. While Disha is one from the art film genre, the other is Angaar, a crime and gangster genre film. Both are a highly recommended watch.
Disha is a study by director Sai Paranjape on the theme of urban migration. The compulsions and temptations around it. The struggles involved by those who migrate and those left behind. And the alternate choices made by those who desist migration and stay back. While the story here is about migration to Mumbai from a rural village in Maharashtra, it's a story that can be retold about many such economic labour migrations. Significantly by the Malayalee population out of communist Kerala for job opportunities - either again to cities like Mumbai or to the Gulf.
The verdict through three hard-hitting parallel stories is that migration - while bringing economic benefits to some - comes with a price. Loneliness, loss of relationships on the personal strata. And breakdown of social and family structure, and corruption - violation even - of cultural norms and values from a broader perspective.
There is also a message of hope in the character of Om Puri: A message that perseverance pays, and that those who stay back might well strike gold!!