Harishchandrachi Factory (2009)

Director: Paresh Mokashi

Producers: Paresh Mokashi, Ronnie Screwvala, Smiti Kanodia, Amit Patwardhan.

Starring: Nandu Madhav (Dadasaheb Phalke), Mohit Gokhale (Bhalchandra), Vibhavari Deshpande (Saraswati Phalke)

Harishchandrachi Factory is a Marathi-language film based on the life and works of the Father of Indian Cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke.

The movie began with Dhundiraj Govind ‘Dadasaheb’ Phalke a.k.a ‘Professor Kelpha’ showing weird and wonderful magic tricks to children. To perform his vanishing magic trick, Dadasaheb ran away.

=     “He’s gone!”

He actually had made the kids believe that he vanished. The place he found himself later was a tent screening a movie called ‘The Life of Christ’. After the movie, he decided that he will invent filmmaking.

Wow! Hadn’t that been invented 41 years earlier?

I’ll do the jokes, thanks.

He just meant that he will create an Indian movie. But how could he? He didn’t have enough money to go to London to learn how to use a camera. So Dadasaheb went on to sell off his stuff starting with his cupboard. If you think this was an unwise move, I shall say you need to read on. Once he had enough money, he went to London to study. Once he returned home, he announced that they were moving to a bungalow because he could do the shooting there.  

So Movies are sorted then!

Noooot yet. The casting was left. Either the people asked would refuse, or get scared of the camera. When the movie’s casting was done, Phalke had to face many struggles. Want to know more? Watch the movie! Don’t search on Wikipedia (anyway Wikipedia is unreliable.).

The movie is an amazing work of art. Even better than the Mona Lisa.

Seriously?

I mean, it is very amazing.  I haven’t spoken about dialogues yet for any movie. But I will for this one. Dadasaheb Phalke’s style of speech was shown to be lively and cheerful, and not dead serious. His excitement for creating Bhasmasura Mohini (1913) and other famous films was perfect.

But all filmmakers aren’t always that excited for their movies.

But Phalke was. He was a First-of-his-kind, right?  Anyway, back to the point. The portrayal of the ones who oppose Dadasaheb is perfect. The games that the kids play are also very funny. Who would make a game which involves someone selling off someone else if one of the kids’ parents is selling their stuff in the market? A kid, obviously. The movie was great, no flaws at all.

Got to see it then.

More reasons coming up:

  1. It has got a good storyline.
  2. It has amazing acting.
  3.  It has a realistic portrayal of the struggle Dadasaheb Phalke had to go through.
  4. It is dead honest of the feelings of Phalke and the others.
  5. Overall, THE MOVIE IS ASTONISHING!

Huh?

Err… it’s my style. But, bye!

 

 

 

 

 

                  

 

 


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