After election results, India will be able to escape to realism from reality it is presently inhabiting | The Indian Express

After election results, India will be able to escape to realism from reality it is presently inhabiting | The Indian Express

Written by Surjit S Bhalla |Updated: May 4, 2019 8:30:33 am

The writer is Contributing Editor at The Indian Express, and Consulting Editor at Network 18

After election results, India will be able to escape to realism from reality it is presently inhabiting

Well, Election 2019 is turning out to be Rashomonesque. Everybody is seeing the same “facts” yet each has a different description of the reality, and its effect on the election.

Everybody is seeing the same “facts” yet each has a different description of the reality, and its effect on the election. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)

My four greatest movies of all time, are, in no particular order, Satyajit Ray’s Charulata, Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, and Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca. Today, I want to talk about Rashomon