Tara
I don’t understand how Tara spent 4 years
Alone. Yearning
Without Ved
Wanting Ved
I don’t understand how she survived,
year
after
year.
Months. Weeks. Days and
Nights.
the nights!
Maybe, because she was but a character.
for a movie character- a time-lapse could help.
A 5minute song
Changing frames. Changing seasons.
Cut to-
After 4 years….
Tara meets Ved.
But I want a movie about all those years, Tara spent alone.
What she did, when she felt lost?
How she overcomed from that feeling...
Where she found the courage to find
a way out from the labyrinth.
when it got really scary and lonely without him-
without a direction, without a purpose?
How? How she endured that pain
of being alone?
Or
finding him was her purpose?
was that her direction?
keeping her alive?
I don't understand
how one can live
Alone.
Yearning.
I know people really seem to love this movie because of the larger picture it presents, and I might get downvoted, but I really found some elements of Tamasha triggering. When Tara dumps Ved after a very public proposal, he goes off the rails and becomes aggressive in every interaction they have. Granted, he was having a breakdown, but that does not justify the emotional abuse Tara experiences. It gets to the point where she is ready to apologize and take him back? Because her refusal pushed him over the edge? I don't think the timing of her refusal would have mattered tbh. He would have gone off the deep end no matter what, because it was related to a lot of childhood trauma.
ReplyDeleteBut the way the film showcased this whole relationship seems to indicate that it was ok for Ved to take his frustration out on Tara. Even if the movie was trying to portray Tara as a sensible person who saw what Ved was going through and tried to help him, there was absolutely no need for the manic screaming to be normalized. Honestly, if something like that happened to me or one of my friends, my advice would be to gtfo and stay safe.