Quale rapporto esiste tra l'attore come persona e il suo personaggio teatrale?
Il contadino per il quale lavora Guna compra una macchina elettrica e così Guna ha meno possibilità di lavorare. Anche altri amici di Guna (Mangesh Satpute, Saddheshwar Zadbuke, Kishor Choughule, Rajesh Bhosale, Mahadev Salukhe, Prashant Tapasvi, Ganesh and Sunil Dev Revadekar), all landless laborers, are in the same conditions. One of them suggests to create their own theater group to earn a bit 'of money. Guna is enthusiastic about the idea. He has always wanted to do theater and make part of a valiant king. In addition, Guna want to try writing screenplays. All comrades like the first screenplay he wrote for the group.
The group is ready to stage their first show, but the friend Pandoba (Kishore Kadam), appointed the manager of the group, points out that they need a girl dancer because you do not può avere lo spettacolo di
Tamasha senza le danze
Lavni di una ragazza, e anche perché senza le danze, nessun uomo verrà a guardare il loro spettacolo.
Pandoba va alla ricerca di una ragazza per il gruppo e alla fine trova la giovane e bella Nayan (
Sonali Kulkarni ) accompagnata da sua madre (Priya Berde). Nayan è disponibile a far parte del gruppo ma ha una condizione - il gruppo deve avere anche un
Nach (un omosessuale effeminato), perché questi personaggi sono molto apprezzati dal pubblico.
Nessuno del gruppo ha il coraggio di fare la parte del
Nach e alla fine, Guna è costretto a accettare questa parte. Per questo ruolo, should cut his mustache, lose weight and must learn the gestures of women. He observes and follows the women dancing and deportment lessons from Nayan. All companions are amazed by his skill and his ability to empathize with the character of the effeminate homosexual.
Guna So little time to change the appearance, it seems another person, not just when on stage and plays the part of Nach
, but also as a person - no longer has a mustache, is much thinner . But beyond the physical appearance, looks like a different person.
In his home, his wife, Dark, his father and other relatives are ashamed of him. Others in the village the jokes are cruel, even to imply that children are not his. Dark asks him to rinnunciare effeminate character.
Guna not want to listen to anyone, you feel as happy as an actor and writer, and with the group for a tour in the villages. While
Guna is around, his father died and his wife, Dark, and his sons returned to the house of his father. Guna is ignorant of all, he sent money and clothes for the family and thinks that now they can live better. It 's very appreciated by the public as
Nach and their performances are always full of spectators. Guna is attracted by Nayan, heroin and dancer of the group.
Against his will, is Guna is mixed in a power play between two politicians. In retaliation, one of the policy does and does Guna kidnap rape by his men.
Guna, defeated and depressed returns home but his wife and son did not want to live with him. The group decided to abandon the dream of the theater. Instead Guna feel they have lost everything and still want to be an actor. So he decides to go along with Nayan cities to find work as an actor.
Comments: As you can guess from the plot, the film touches on the question of the construction of sexual identity. What does being a man or a woman, what is the role of "alien" in the patriarchal society, What are the prejudices and discrimination in traditional societies, are the questions the film raises.
beginning of the film, the character of Guna is a macho character, proud of his masculinity. And 'poor, unable to earn enough money to buy school books for her daughter, but no one doubts his social role as a man. E 'respected and even envied by others.
When he decides to play the role of
Nach , Guna says to his wife, "I'll cover you with gold and clothes, the children will all be a queen, but has already changed in appearance, has an appearance and female so, its social role as a man has been weakened. Some links the theater, trying to touch him at night "for fun", but Guna reacts badly, and insists that he is not a true
Nach , it's just an actor playing the role of
Nach .
Several times in the film returns sull'incongruità between appearance of a person against what it feels like to be. What appears and seems to be against what he wants. As often happens to women who dare to defy the rules of the powerful men in patriarchal societies, including rape Guna punishment is to emphasize that he is like the women, of little value.
also change his relationship with women. He goes to bed with Nayan and asks di sposarla ma lei gli risponde che non c'è futuro per una donna con un
Nach - "I
nach sono richiesti al teatro solo finché sono giovani, ma nessuno li vuole quando si invecchiano; possono andare bene in letto ma non sono accettabili come mariti."
Guna vuole interpretare altri ruoli nel teatro e cerca di uscire dalla prigione del personaggio di Nach, ma gli spettatori non gli permettono di sperimentare, "Uno identificato come un omosessuale effeminato non può avere altri ruoli" è il loro giudizio.
Guna perde il suo ruolo sociale quando si mostra un bravo attore nel ruolo di un omosessuale effeminato, e a quel punto non è importante che lui è un uomo sposato con la famiglia. In seguito perde la moglie e i figli. Quando lui chiede al suo figlio di venire con lui, il figlio sputa per terrà e va via senza rispondere.
Ma il confine tra il mondo di finzione e la realtà non ha le frontiere molto nette. Guna lo scopre quando dietro le sollecitazioni del suo manager, accetta di comportarsi da
Nach per vincere un contratto di lavoro da un politico.
Dall'altra parte molte persone che sono attratte dal suo fascino come
Nach e cercano di portarlo a letto, in pubblico assumano la maschera dei "giustamente indignati da questi pervertiti" per vendicarsi di lui per aver rifiutato le loro avance.
Ma le identity of male and female are so clear, well-defined and rigid in nature or are so to comply with the rules of society? Guna answers to this question towards the end of the film when he admits, "Every being has within himself the male and the female part, but we are not free to express them."
I think "
Natrang " (literally "the colors of treatro") is a complex film that deserves to be seen several times to capture the various questions raised and the reflections on the theme of sexual identity causes.
All actors in the film are good, but it is especially
Atul Kulkarni in the role of Guna who has impeccable interpretation. It is said that he had put on 16 pounds for the first part of the film, which was as muscular and macho man, while the second part, to interpret the character of
Nach , had lost almost forty pounds. The difference between the two characters is so great that it seems to see two completely different people.
The world of regional cinema in India, is less subject to commercial pressures that can afford to experiment with the particular topics of little interest to the masses who love the movies of Bollywood masala.
Natrang is an excellent example of cinema that deserves to be widely known among people who really love cinema and provocative.