Unfreedom Review: It questions the boundary of Human ideology with Freedom serving as the stand

 

Scene from Unfreedom

Let’s talk about taboo that are very well persistent in our society that summons it up in a form of a filthy channel, they close their eyes, they fear to open it, as if it’s a dilapidated reality but its real we have to face it. That’s the only way to make the world get to its feet and cherish the color that symbolizes the pattern of rainbow, and which further puts the ideology of love without the sense of boundary. I can fall in love with a boy, a girl can kiss a girl, they can hold hands and have their future on the stand, who the hell is the society, the people with sheer sense of atrocity against the purest form of human relationship – “Love.” Love has no walls, no boundary, its there within us and will persist irrespective of the Gender that come as the priority, homosexual is not a disease, its who they are, and will be. Believe me the irony of the situation is pretty clear, we are free from the law that perish our self-nurtured reality, its Section-377, but are we on the verge of experiencing the so-called Freedom that puts the reality wide open and cherishes the natural charisma, just think about it whoever is reading it. It’s just not the taboo, it’s becoming a reality for us with the wind of shame gushing through the face of the LGBTQ community, who are yet to prove the truth and the wide chapter which is disclosed under the bed of politics. The history takes its stand with the liberty that stands as the momentum for the nation’s solemnity, but is that truly the crust through which we are idealizing the commencement of humanity. The liberal ideology expresses out thoughts about the Nation we form together. It’s the democratic right that we hold on our shoulders yet the one term that takes it into the wings of political agenda that revolves arounds the entire surface is- “Secularism.”

Revealing the stand with courage and keeping the chapter’s taut, Director Raj Amit Kumar welcome the ideology through the silver screen with Unfreedom, he gives the narratives open stand, till its last breath. Narrating the chapters of human history, comes with its own set of consequences, been banned in India for a really long time, the reason been the taboo and liberal ideology, two chapters the nations don’t wont its children to hear. We are in the era where films like Kama-Sutra and Fire have taken their stands, its rooted deep inside the reality that is yet to smell the aroma of hope. The Islamic ideology is prevalent still with they practice of religion which is the core to “Allah”, revelations and clashes are the two pillars that the filmmakers have to get on their back and move on as the entire Nation still fights for Babri-Masjid and Ram Mandir.

Scene from Unfreedom

The film starts with a symbol that lies underneath and ends with it too. The metaphors and the use of signs are the most intriguing way a cinema can be interpreted. The story narrates the reality of Leela (PreetiGupta) and her homosexuality that is still a question for the society and her Father ( Adil Hussain) as she is about to meet a man for marriage, a sacred ritual but the filth is prevalent as she reveals it to her family. Maintaining the parallel narrative stands, Mohammad Hussain (Bhanu Uday) who is against the liberal idealism been Islamic Fundamentalist with is gruesome past pumping the sense of secularism and thus abducts the Muslim Scholar and gives him the lesson of true colors of Islamic status with Allah been the thread connecting the ideology. The cinematic progress was the most inherent color with the sense of gore and abyss reality that pushes the sense of momentum and rush in the storyline. The use of color and subtext at moments got me to stick around more feasibly.

The narrative had the sense of the moments been unanswered for a long while and eventually been suppressed. The parallel narrative had the sense of weak plot points where the agenda of the Islamic counterpart was visible but the execution and the structure, it was based just about the ideology which is enclosed and thus the sense of unfreedom, but it’s from one person’s perspective and his past events that leads to the abduction and question to liberal ideology, that made it exaggerating, it seldom puts the Islamic nation accountable of act. While for the other narrative, the story and the rhythm are sensual but the metaphors failed to lie at a concrete stand, which affects the storyline, but the execution was strong enough and is indeed the reality which is showcased by Raj Amit Kumar.

Unfreedom was banned in India, we still question Why! What are we afraid of? Why our censor board forms a soft corner for commercial cinema. The answer is broad in its term, but directors are eventually trying to surface the truth to the mass. We follow democracy I guess it’s time for us to really take a stand. Dive in the aesthetics of cinema with its true colors, as who knows it will slowly come as the Film Festivals standing as universal pathway for visual art.