The answer may be, ‘Yes or No’.
But can you draw inference by correlating the shattered
images of your dream to understand it?
If you can say ‘Yes’, then you
are fit to understand the film ‘Sira’, The Ink.
Every scene and every frame is made abstract.
You need to tune your minds to watch it. If you don’t
understand the film, just take some time, watch for the
second time and then draw your own inference.
The most interesting aspect of surrealistic
films is that it can be inferred in any number of ways.
The understanding of the film depends on the cognition levels
of the beholder.
Here is a brief scenic description of the film in my view
perspective:
Scene |
Inference |
Observations |
Some one calls the poet early
in the morning. The poet identifies him as a skull
and says, ‘Oh! It’s me” |
That is the skull, a symbolism
of head, which is narrating this film early in the
morning without any dialogue. What our head can narrate
to us other than a dream or thought? So, this entire
film is a poet’s dream. Early morning dreams
are known for purity and truth. Dreams appear with
shattered images and crumbled thoughts. |
Camera work deserves a mention
here. The spectacles of the poet are shown different.
|
The poet digs the soil and places
a walking stick in that. He waters it and smells the
wet soil. He stretches his hands and breathes happily.
He stands up and rotates feeling that entire Universe
is his own place |
Walking stick is a replica of
lifeless tree. The poet’s subconscious mind
is filled with the thought that trees are being cut
down and greenery is absent. But he expresses his
love towards trees by watering that stick. He loves
the soil and this earth and hence smells the damp
soil to his delight. He stretches his hands and smiles
implying that he is enjoying freedom. He rotates with
Universal bliss like a free bird that is free from
all bondages. |
Vandemataram music brings the
feel that poet is patriotic. |
Poet draws down an empty bird
cage and sprinkles seeds into that |
Poet is sub consciously worried
about the exterminating bird species. But he loves
the birds. The former is depicted in the form of empty
cage and the later is shown with the sprinkling of
seeds. |
|
The door doesn’t touch the
ground. That is mounted on the wall. |
This shows that poet’s mind
is not touching the ground. He is someone beyond who
always dreams about Utopian world. |
|
The ladder shows the head of an
ape downwards, the face of a young boy above that
and an old man’s idol on the top. |
This ladder is the most prominent
thing that dwells in the heads of the poet. He always
thinks about the stages in human life that came from
ape. |
|
Red News Paper |
Metaphor for bloodshed |
|
Black News Paper |
Metaphor for Sorrows, deaths and
Worries |
The music worked on this scene
is horrified and haunts for some time. |
The crumbled Red and Black News
Papers appear to be blossoming |
This means the heart of poet got
blossomed to write something responding to the News
he read |
|
Poet drinks Ink |
He is an embodiment of writing |
|
Horse neighs |
Poet got an interesting and majestic
thought that made him happy. He writes that immediately.
|
|
Poet’s wife wears black
sari through out |
Metaphor for sorrow, worry and
protest. She protests her life. |
|
Poet locks his head in a jail
and thinks to write something |
He arrests his freedom of expression
and writes for money by pleasing a set of people |
|
Donkey bays |
The poet gets a dirty thought
and sprinkles the ink to show that he wrote something
|
|
Coins shower |
He earned a few bucks for the
first time with that dirty write up. |
|
Poet’s wife takes a forest
fig and cuts that to boil. |
Just observe the shape of that
fig. That resembles sexual organ. The poet’s
wife is not satisfied with her marital life and her
desires hence she is boiling her desires. |
|
First Night Scene |
Poet’s wife feels that her
husband is equal to a dead man on bed. Yes, poet is
only focused on Utopian world but nothing else. |
|
Poet’s wife feeds her husband
with an Omlette. But poet remains with half hunger
even after eating that. Then the wife breaks a globe
like an egg. |
This shows that wife loves the
poet a lot and she is ready to break even the globe
to feed him. |
|
Poet’s wife wakes up with
the sound of shuttle cock. |
This implies that her life is
shuttling between her mind and heart like a shuttle
cock. We have to imagine that her Sacred Marriage
Thread in her neck is the Net. |
|
Poet ties a garland of Nibs to
her ankle. |
The scene depicts that poet loves
his wife a lot but he has nothing to make her happy
other than pens, nibs, papers and ink. |
|
A fish, confined to a small aquarium
is shown. |
The life of this poet couple is
confined to that pillaged ruin due to financial crisis.
|
|
Two buds catch fire and burn down
|
This shows that the young age
of this couple got burnt down without any sexual pleasures
with the fire of nib. |
Camera work deserves a mention
here. |
Poet takes a broken globe filled
with blood and tries to weld that till he grows old.
|
Whole world is filled with blood
shed and the globe is breaking into pieces. The poet
worked through out his life to weld the globe with
his pen. |
Shadows are rightly canned by
camera in this scene. |
A crow flies off out of two |
The poet passed away but the wife
remained |
How could the director manage
to make only single crow fly off? That’s really
a wonder. |
Poet’s wife looks young
but the poet turned old. |
This is poet’s dream. Since
he loves her wife he cannot imagine her in old age.
|
|
Poet goes red and fights with
nibs those grow as nails |
This shows that the poet fights
against terrorism and violence with his writing. |
|
Poet dies with globes on his eyes |
The poet loved the world and tried
to protect it. But he died. Still, he looks only at
the world. |
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