{"id":5634,"date":"2020-05-05T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2020-05-05T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:36:51","slug":"mahapurush-a-film-i-loved-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/mahapurush-a-film-i-loved-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahapurush \u2013 A Film I Loved to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5636\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mahapurush 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-1-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have watched this film yesterday. It was shown by my father. It is a Satyajit Ray film. The film started with the Mahapurush man who was throwing worship offerings to his followers. All of them prayed for it but the last piece of offering was given to the stationmaster. When the train started everybody was touching his feet. I hated that man because he was actually fooling people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5637\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5637\" class=\"wp-image-5637\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mahapurush by Satyajit Ray\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahapurush in the train<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In that train he met someone called Gurupada and his daughter. I hated that part when he faked that he was controlling the rise of Sun. He was actually a learned man and was aware of when the Sun rose and set every day. He was a fraud. He understood that Gurupada was a rich man and he knew that he could earn a lot of money by using Gurupada. He looked as if he was a \u2018godman\u2019 from outside but we know that he wasn\u2019t in the inside. I did not like that Gurupada believed such a fraud man. I think that Gurupada was not a very wise man because he thought of making the Mahapurush his \u2018guru\u2019 and let him stay at his house.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5638\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5638\" class=\"wp-image-5638\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-3.png\" alt=\"Mahapurush review\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-3.png 762w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-3-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-3-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satya depicts his experience of the Godman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every evening there was a meeting at his place. Many rich men and women came there and all of them believed the way the Mahapurush talked. The plan of the Mahapurush was to earn a lot of money by bad means. But how can anyone believe such a man? Because how can a man live for such a long time to have seen Jesus Christ and Buddha? Nibaran didn\u2019t believe the man at all. I liked him though he did take some time to disbelieve that man. I love Satya. He behaved like cartoon characters. He was very funny. He would talk a lot and ask a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p>Nibaran had a scientist friend Nani. He would do a lot of strange experiments for timepass. One of them was boiling grass. He talked about a lot of different words I don\u2019t know about: oxide, a type of acid, etc. to Nibaran. The actor who played Nani was the same actor who played the role of Jatayu in the \u2018Feluda\u2019 films. Nani wasn\u2019t a great scientist though he knew a lot of things.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5639\" style=\"width: 772px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5639\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-4.png\" alt=\"Mahapurush by Satyajit Ray\" width=\"762\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-4.png 762w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-4-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-4-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nibaran could make out the trick the Godman was using<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nibaran thought of something to expose Mahapurush. He was successful to do the trick with the hands which the Mahapurush did to astonish his followers. It took me 2 days to completely achieve it. It wasn\u2019t that easy. One hand should move in a clockwise direction and the other in an anti-clockwise direction. A person needs to do it together. The followers probably never tried and that\u2019s why they thought it was impossible. If all the followers would have practised then he probably wouldn\u2019t be called a great godman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5640\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5640\" class=\"wp-image-5640\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-5.png\" alt=\"Mahapurush film review\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-5.png 762w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-5-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-5-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satya, Nibaran and a friend attend the last meeting with the Godman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hated that part when he transformed as Bramha. It was actually the assistant\u2019s shadow. Not a single thing was true. It was just made-up stories. I loved that part when I saw the real face of the Mahapurush. He wasn\u2019t wearing his cap. If Gurupada would have entered and seen the real man then there would have been total chaos. I hated the assistant of that godman. He acted as if he never asked or needed anything in his life.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the last idea of Nibaran. It was really a great one. He planned to use white and thick smoke. When everybody would shout about the fire then Mahapurush had to stop his meditation. Then Nibaran would catch him and expel him from the town and warn him never to come near this town again. The idea of Nibaran worked fantastically. The man had to run away but there was a bad part. Gurupada was sad and shocked to see that the man he believed was gone. I felt bad for that poor man.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5634 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/mahapurush-a-film-i-loved-to-watch\/mahapurush-6\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-6-300x227.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Mahapurush review\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-6-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-6-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-6.png 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5641'>\n\t\t\t\tNibaran warns the Godman\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/mahapurush-a-film-i-loved-to-watch\/mahapurush-7\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-7-300x227.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Mahapurush a Ray film\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-5642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-7-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-7-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/Mahapurush-7.png 762w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-5642'>\n\t\t\t\tGurupada is sad once his belief is shattered\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I learnt that fooling people is never a good deed. No one should ever fool anybody except on April Fool\u2019s Day. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and everyone\u2019s acting in it.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/retrospective\/ray100\/\">Click here for exclusive features on understanding Satyajit Ray&#8217;s films coming up as part of Ray@100 Centenary Series.<\/a><\/h3>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11-year old Akash Nag, has all the questions in the world while watching films. While he likes Satyajit Ray\u2019s \u2018Apu Trilogy\u2019, he absolutely loves the Feluda stories, mostly because of Soumitra Chatterjee, his \u2018Soumitra Dadu\u2019. On 2nd May, when Akash\u2019s father announced that they would be watching a Ray film, Akash was apprehensive because he didn\u2019t want to repeat the Ray films he already watched, nor he wanted to watch those which were for \u2018adults\u2019. He was almost coaxed into watching <em>Mahapurush<\/em>, Ray\u2019s comic masterpiece. In the end, Akash didn\u2019t object. He liked the film to the extent of writing a short review of it.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":5636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2277],"tags":[2274,196,2278,2275,603,28,1217,2276],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ray100","tag-acting-in-satyajit-ray-films","tag-cinema-of-satyajit-ray","tag-mahapurush-ray-film","tag-ray100","tag-robi-ghosh","tag-satyajit-ray","tag-satyajit-ray-films","tag-understanding-cinema"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}