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Kisna

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 | Film

Lately, I’ve been really lucky with the DVDs I bought, I love them. Flicka, Krisna…

One of my 2 rather secret and guilty pleasures (one is my activities as webmistress) is to lose myself in daydreams from time to time. I like to imagine myself as an actress. Of course, I’d be very talented and would have great ideas for new films. One such is along these lines: Early 20th century, a rather upper-class English couple staying in India for their holidays is killed. A simple farming family takes in their baby girl and raise her as their own. She grows up viewed as an outsider by the rest of the village community. Yet, she feels she belongs there. After the attentions of the son of a better-situated Indian family cause further problems she’s being sent away to a school in England - giving her the education she deserves as an English woman. Despite her English looks she is again an outsider at the school because she feels, thinks and acts like an Indian girl. Nevertheless, this new surroundings leave their mark on her personality, making her neither Indian nor English, but something on her own. When she goes back she takes her fate into her own hands and… Well, I neither have the talent nor the will to try myself as screen writer or the like. Even now, re-reading my attempt of putting the story into actual words, it already seems ridiculous. But I love to entertain the idea anyway….

Anyway, when I saw the Bollywood film ‘Kisna‘, the story about a white girl in India falling in love with an Indian boy I got very excited. Of course it is a totally different story than the one in my head, and made in true Bollywood style, but I fell in love with the film.

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