Tamasha ...again

Well, I watched Tamasha again...and as with a good book, so also with a good movie I guess...enjoyed it all over...and also saw more

                

To stay with the underlying theme of the movie..... the interface between the 'real' and the 'role', and how often it's the role that becomes the 'real'.  A couple of sequences that bring this out well.

One, when Tara is telling Ved (of the present), how the man she fell in love with was different....and he's like 'that was a fake week, and a fake me' and she's like no 'that fake you was the real you, this is naqli..,,,you're in a role, you've become the role....and the role is now bigger than you'.

And another, and I think the defining moment in the movie...... the moment when Ved goes back to the storyteller, in search of his own story......and the story teller says...'tumhari kahani, aur mujhse poochraheho? tum kya chahathe ho?', and you realize Ved doesn't recognize the question, he's lost his ability to ask for himself....and echoes 'main kya chahatha hoon?'.....and that's his turning point.......