टोकयो स्टोरी आणि नटसम्राट....Why Aren't We Subtle?

#नटसम्राट५०
आज २३ डिसेंबर २०२० ला नटसम्राटच्या पहिल्या प्रयोगाला ५०वर्षे पूर्ण होत आहेत

Jonathan Crow, April 2019, Open Culture:

“Beginning in 1992, Sight and Sound started to poll famed directors about their opinions. People like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Leigh and Michael Mann. So what is the best movie ever made according to 358 directors polled in 2012? Kane? Vertigo? Perhaps Jean Renoir’s brilliant Rules of the Game, the only movie to appear in the top ten for all seven critics polls? No.

Instead, the top prize goes to Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story.

It’s a surprising, an enlightened, choice. Ozu’s work is miles away from the flash of Kane and the psychosexual weirdness of Vertigo. Tokyo Story is a gentle, nuanced portrait of a family whose bonds are slowly, inexorably being frayed by the demands of modernization. The movie’s emotional power is restrained and cumulative; by the final credits you’ll be overwhelmed both with a Buddhist sense of the impermanence of all things and a strong urge to call your mother....”

टोकयो स्टोरी मधले काही संवाद: 

 

< But it surprises me how children change.

Shige used to be a much nicer person before.

She did, didn't she?

When a daughter marries,she becomes a stranger.

Koichi has changed, too. He used to be such a nice boy.

Children never live up to their parents' expectations.

Let's just be happy that they're better than most.>

They're just selfish. Demanding things and then leaving just like that.

That can't be helped. They have work to get back to.

But you have yours too.

- They think only of themselves.

- But Kyoko...

Asking for mementos of mother right after her death! I felt so sorry for poor mother. Even strangers would have been more considerate.

But look, Kyoko, I thought so too when I was your age. But, as children get older, they drift away from their parents.

A woman has her own life, apart from her parents......when she becomes Shige's age.

So she meant no harm, I'm sure. They have their own lives to look after.

I wonder...But I won't ever be like that.  Otherwise what's the point of being part of a family?

You're right. But all children become like that eventually.

You, too?

I may become like that, in spite of myself.

Isn't life disappointing?

Yes, nothing but disappointment.> 

 
'टोकयो स्टोरी' (Tokyo Story, 1953) हा अत्यंत कौतुक झालेला, नावाजलेला आणि माझा अत्यंत आवडता सिनेमा हा बऱ्याच प्रमाणात मोठी झालेली मुले आणि त्यांचे त्यांच्या आई-वडिलांशी संबंध या विषयावरच आहे पण त्याच विषयावरचे मराठी नाटक 'नटसम्राट' , १९७१ हे इतके भडक  आहे कि वाटले आपण मराठीत टोकयो स्टोरी सारखे नाजूक का होऊ शकत नाही?

आणि म्हणूनच मग टोकयो स्टोरी इतके जगभर गाजते पण नटसम्राट भारत/ भारतीय लोक ओलांडून क्वचितच कुठे गेले ते त्यामुळेच का? 

 

(टोकयो स्टोरी चा प्रभाव नटसम्राट वर नक्कीच पडलेला आहे असे मला वाटते.)