Starring: Rahul Bose, Aditi Inaamdar, Dhritiman Chatterjee, HeebaShah
Directed by: Rahul Bose
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At one crucial point in the telling of this simple and heartwarming tale of a tribal girl’s climb from the pits to Himalayan heights, RahulBose playing an upright bureaucrat, asks the little Andhra girl what is her purpose for climbing the Everest.
“I have no purpose. I just want to do it,” she tells her mentor honestly.
The simple confessional articulation exemplifies this film’s mood. So rich in its message,so far-flung in its intentions and purpose and yet so intimate in treatment and execution, Rahul Bose wins you over with his honesty of purpose. There is no duplicitous bones in the structure of this film.Sure, there are passages in this motivational tale that follow the rags-to-riches trajectory with textbookish precision.
But the heart is unweariedly in the right place, bringing to the narrative a kind of non-negotiable integrity that is at once compelling and winsome.Authenticity is the key to the cogency of Bose’s vision. He chooses actors and locations who are as true to the original milieu as cinematically possible. The rest just follows .
The narrative sweeps us into an emotional realism that is at once sparse and dramatic , pumping up the saga of resilience and humanism with vignettes and frames that form a panoramic arc over the film’s rugged landscape.
Poorna’s saga begins in an impoverished village of Andhra Pradeshand ends on the highest summit of the Everest. It is an ambitious arc, navigated and tempered with a lavish affection for the downtrodden and an absence of patronizing pride in depicting the rise of a young underprivileged girl to heights of glory.
Little Ishaan in Taare Zameen Par had his Ram Shankar Nikumbh to steer him into the light. Poorna has Praveen Kumar,a bureaucrat who belongs to that rare breed of civil servants who still believes he took on the job with the purpose of improving lives of the underprivileged.I’ve read some very strange comments on how RahulBose has cast himself in a self-glorifying role. Wait…is that against the law? To play noble characters? Has that been declared a cognizable offence by a social order that thinks cynicism is cool?
It is easy to get cynical about a character whose heart bleeds for those who are not given one square meal a day.There is an emotionally surcharged moment in Bose’s narrative where the conscientious bureaucrat eats a mid-day meal with school girls to get a feel of the awful food that is served up by government-funded canteens.Bose’s Praveen Kumar doesn’t flinch as he swallows morsels of the garbage(junk food at its purest?).
But we do.
Throughout the telling of this inspiring tale of a girl who won’t buckle under the pressure of poverty and cynicism, Rahul Bose gives us the portrait of a bleak landscape lit up by a distant hope.He is the artiste who won’t judge a value-system that condemns the downtrodden to doom. But he won’t condone it either.
He can laugh with Poorna at her poverty—don’t miss the sequence where the girls at the boarding school giggle and compare each other’s poverty—but he won’t laugh AT her condition.
Poorna is a little gem with a big heart. It has many virtues. AditiInaamdar who plays Poorna is a prized find. So is young S Mariya as Poorna’s spunky but tragically vanquished cousin . The scenes showing the two girls bonding are so heartwarming as to make us overlook the film’s obvious flaws of over-statement .However some of the other actors in incidental roles seem to have come on board just to feel good about themselves for helping a noble cause.
The film is shot with minimum fuss and optimum feelings. When little Poorna stood at the peak of the Everest I felt I was standing up there with her. Gloriously triumphant and hoping that what MajroohSultanpuri wrote 45 years ago for a just social order would come true soon: Kitne din aankhen tarsenge/ Kitne din yun dil tarsenege/ Ek dintoh baadal barsenge/ Ae mere pyaase dil/aaj nahin toh kal mehkegikhwabon ki mehfil.
Take a bow, Mr Bose. Poorna is not just a tale of the triumph of the human spirit. We all have a Poorna inside us waiting to conquer our own Everest.

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Pink Director’s Next Featuring Yami As A Crime Reporter To Stream From February 16

Anniruddha Roy Chowdhury whose Pink featuring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu was one of the most important films of 2016, is all set to release his next Hindi film.
Entitled Lost, Anniruddha’s film , based on true events, will see Yami Gautam Dhar(that’s what the actress calls herself after her marriage) as a crime journalist. LOST is an emotional social thriller that represents a higher quest, a search for lost values of empathy and integrity.
Inspired by true events, Lost is a story of a bright young woman crime reporter in her relentless search for the truth behind the sudden disappearance of a young theatre activist.

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Says Aniruddha “The shoot of LOST has been an incredible journey. I have been eager for the release of our hard-worked venture. The film is a realistic highlight of media in a social context and I am sure that it will give the audience a compelling watch. I am curious about its release and see the responses it shall get. I hope they will welcome it with open hearts.”
Yami Gautam Dhar who plays the lead of the crime reporter says, “I can’t be happier and more proud of the film’s selection for the opening night at CSAFF. I feel like its one that the people will connect to and will be the one that you cannot miss, especially in the current age and time. I have loved playing this role because it was such a special experience, it allowed me to explore so many layers of emotions as an actor and the entire team has worked really hard on it. I genuinely cannot wait for the film’s release, especially to see the reactions of the audience to it.”
The crime investigation drama boasts a stellar cast. Along with Yami, the film will feature Pankaj Kapur, Rahul Khanna, and an ensemble of younger talent, including Neil Bhoopalam, Pia Bajpai, and Tushar Pandey, in pivotal roles.
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Jamuna Had A Love-Hate Relationship With Bollywood

Veteran Telugu actress Jamuna who passed away on Friday, shared an uneasy relationship with the Hindi film industry.She did eleven Hindi films including the iconic Milan in 1967 where Jamuna agreed to play the second lead, or the supporting role if you will, to Nutan.
Jamuna as Gauri was the Other Woman who craved for the hero Sunil Dutt’s attention whereas he had eyes and devotion only for Nutan. In later years Aruna Irani played a similar role in Caravan.
In Milan Jamuna was not keen to do a supporting role. Producer L V Prasad tempted her with three chartbusting songs. Besides, Jamuna had played the same role in Mooga Manasulu, the Telugu original of Milan. But it was the songs composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal which convinced Jamuna to take up the second lead in Milan.
While Nutan had no solo songs in Milan, she did have the chartbuster duet Sawan ka mahina . Jamuna on the other hand, had two splendid Lata Mangeshkar solos: Tohey saawariya naahin khabariya and the magnificent Ghazal Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin.Not only these, Jamuna also had a hit duet with Mukesh based on her character Gauri: Bol Gauri bol tera kaun piya.
But then, fate intervened. After the film released one of Jamuna’s solos, the poignant and memorable Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin was snipped out of the film.
Here is what happened: the Ghazal , one of Lataji’s all-time greats, was very much a part of Milan when it released on 17 March 1967. But then it was seen to hamper the flow of the film and edited out. The beautiful song occurred right after intermission. Producer Prasad, a shrewd filmmaker, got to know that audiences prolonged their loo breaks as there was a song after the break. Hence the sacrifice of a seriously sonorous melody.
Jamuna hardly did Hindi films after Milan. Her last Bollywood appearance was in Raj Kumar Kohli’s Raj Tilak where she was lost in a multistarrer as the royal queen.
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Karan Johar Moves Alia Song From Switzerland To Kashmir

The romantic duet in Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani which was to be shot in Switzerland and which was delayed due to the film’s leading lady Alia Bhatt’s motherhood, is now being relocated to Kashmir.
Purely out of the love for new mom Alia.
Says a source in the know, “Karan loves Alia like his own daughter. He would do anything for her. He postponed the release of Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani as the love duet could not be shot before Alia’s maternity leave. Karan had decided to shoot the song in Switzerland after Alia’s maternity love. But now he has relocated the song to Kashmir as Alia doesn’t want to leave her baby girl behind for long stretches.”
And as Karan Johar argued, snow is snow. How does it matter whether it is Switzerland or Kashmir?
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Bobby says it is not conscious career decision to play negative characters but a conscious decision to play interesting characters. “ I don’t look at characters as positive or negative.When I watch films there is always one character that stays with you. I want to play that character.”
Prakash Jha’s Ashram proved a gamechanger for Bobby. He admits finding challenging roles is tough. “I am trying. I am doing Sandeep Vanga’s Animal with Ranbir Kapoor , Parineeti Chopra. Then I am doing the family film Apne 2 which I am very excited about.”
In an earlier interview with this writer Bobby spoke about his long absence from screen before Prakash Jha’s Ashram. “My fans would ask why I wasn’t being seen on the screen.And I couldn’t tell them it was because I wasn’t getting good roles. But my fans stood by me. They gave me the strength to keep looking for the right roles. Thankfully I found the roles I liked. My new films have given me some new fans. I am thankful I am still here. Yeah , I am in a good space right now.”
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