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Ankhon Dekhi Dvd

Bauji resists his daughter’s request to let her marry the man she loves as the villagers incessantly shame him. But on meeting him, his opinion changes and he decides to become an unbiased individual.

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Ankhon Dekhi (transl. Through my own eyes) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language drama film written and directed by Rajat Kapoor and produced by Manish Mundra. It stars Sanjay Mishra and Rajat Kapoor. The film was released on 21 March 2014. It was the opening film at the 8th annual Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival (MISAFF) 2014 in Toronto. It is Kapoor’s fifth feature film and was dedicated to his idols and teachers: filmmakers Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani. At the 2015 Screen Awards ceremony, Ankhon Dekhi won the awards for Best Supporting Actress for Seema Pahwa, Best Story and Best Ensemble Cast.

Plot

Rajesh Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) is a man in his late 50s, living a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi with his extended family. The movie starts with Babuji narrating his dream where he sees himself flying like a bird free from all the worldly affairs. A random incident is going to change his life in a dramatic way, though he does not realise it at the moment. Bauji’s daughter has been seeing a boy of ill repute. When that fact is revealed to the family, after much deliberation they decide to lock up the girl and go beat the wilful boy.

When they confront the boy, to Babuji he seems like a very nice person. This event radically changes his life — he decides that he will believe only what he can see, hence the title Ankhon Dekhi. After a while he refuses to worship god and treats prasad as just another sweet. He is working as a travel agent and refuses to book tickets to Amsterdam as he has never seen Amsterdam. To uphold his ideals, he quits his job. He resorts to a very idealistic mode and takes things to extreme levels to explore his theory. At first his neighbours consider him a lunatic old man, but over time they start admiring his logical reasoning and start following him.

Once while intervening in a petty loan issue with a loan shark, he refuses to believe the bad reputation of the shark. He concludes that he is a good person, based on his observation. He forms a rapport with the loan shark and is recruited by him in his illegal gambling den. His followers join.

He gives consent to his daughter’s marriage to the boy she loves and almost sorts out the emotional issues with his estranged brother.

Now free from all responsibility, he leads a life where there are almost no blind spots and a lot of clarity. He takes his wife for a vacation.

While chatting he narrates to his wife that he feels very light, like a bird flying in free skies. His wife jokes about his experience, inadvertently challenging his own theory that he doesn’t know how a bird actually flies. In the middle of the night he walks towards a cliff. Babuji narrates his dream (as in the beginning of the story). He has yet to experience flying. As the film ends, Bauji is seen flying down a cliff.

Cast

Sanjay Mishra as Bauji
Rajat Kapoor as Rishi Chacha
Seema Pahwa as Amma
Namit Das as Ajju
Shripad Raorane as Sharma ji
Brijendra Kala as Shibbo Babu
Manu Rishi as Sharma ji
Maya Sarao as Rita
Taranjit Kaur as Chachi
Chandrachoor Rai as Shammi
Alka Chawla as Sarup Bua
Mahesh Sharma as Bauaa
Anil Chaudhary as Chaudhary Saab
Shrikant Varma as Master Ji
Manish Karnatak as Jeevan
Dhruv Singh as Dhruv
Saurabh Shukla as Boss
Danish Hussain as Gopi
Yogendra Tiku as Panditji
Chaitanya Mahawar as Ashok
Chetan Sharma as Anil
Shivam Sethi as Arun
Ranvir Shorey Cameo Appearance in one scene
Yadvinder Singh Brar as Goon
Rajiv Narang as Gambler

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