Spirit - Movie review

Film: Spirit

Director : Ranjith

Cast: Mohanlal, Madhu, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Kaniha and Thilakan.

 

      This movie is  an attempt to answer some of the contemporary questions such as,

    Is it possible to  have a stable relationship amidst all the complexities of life?

    How can we make life meaningful in a situation where technology  and many other external elements like alcohol rule over the people?

      According to this movie, life  becomes  meaningful in a mutual affirmation and love. Technology  and spirit disrupt the rhythm of life. According to Meera, we cannot live our life with a computer though it is highly intelligent. So she  had to leave Raghu (Mohanlal), a man who  led a  mechanical  and a different way of life.

     Reghu  is an intelligent  and clever man.  He lived  in his own world and loved himself very much. Though  he is  a  public figure, he has not a single soul  to wish him  a good night and sweet dreams.  It is understood from the life  of Reghu  that the masterpiece of an  artist  is his life story itself which becomes completed only with the death of the artist. This is true even in the case of Sameer, a poet and  a thinker. He is forced to sell poetry  to make a living.His life tells that  poetry and  life are not  two different  concepts but are  one.  The poet sheds  his  blood to nurture the poetry and to  bring out his best.

This movie also criticizes  some of  the attitudinal changes in people of these days.

    Mobile phone and the shift happened in us  from person to person relationship  to a  virtual world. The device we have made controls us that we forget the people who are close to us and eats away our loving fellowship.

   The growing tendency  among Malayalees  to celebrate  anything and everything with liquor

    Our failure to trace  the root  cause of the problems  in the society.

   Mony (Nandhu) is not   merely a drunkard who represents  the contemporary  men who are  in the magical world of addiction. The addiction discussed in this movie may be towards wealth, power , wine and the other worldly attractions.

     A lot of attempts are there in this movie  to remove the barriers  built by the society and to establish a right  person-to-person relationship. Here  a bar  attender  is more than a  bar attender, a neighbor is more than a person staying in the next door but are people  who listen  to our mourns and wipe away our tears.

Joseph Shibin