Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - Presentness
Thoughts On: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
Three friends venture across Spain to celebrate an engagement.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, You Only Live Once, is a brilliant road trip comedy that emphasises what the journey, adventure or travel narrative does best: expose friendship and truth. Despite the sweeping landscape of the film's background, its focus on character and the gradual reveal of their internal conflicts grounds the narrative in genuine and touching themes of honesty and presentness. My favourite aspect of the film is captured in moments in which characters attempt to apologise to one another, but have their apologies denied with the retort: say sorry when you mean it. This holds the narrative's expressions in a dramatic microcosm and implies that, though we can say and do things in knowing, life flows in doing and being. Therefore, one can say sorry when they know they have done wrong, but can only express true apologies in their intention to correct their wrong; they can say they love, but only truly love someone through their steps beside them. Such expands and nuances cliches of only living once, living in the moment and being present; therein is more than an indulgence of the lyrical poetry of being but a lyrosophic experience of our choice to be in truth. For this, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is certainly more than worth the watch and a terrific film.
Thanks Nika
