“Why are you always angry? Behave yourself!” Similar reminders knows Rima from her Childhood in India. With “Bulbul Can Sing” return to the successful film-maker in the village where she comes from.
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The constraints of village life: “Bulbul Can Sing”
Hang a swing in a tree and let the soul carefree dangle: the three friends Bulbul, Bonny and Suman. They are Teenagers from an Indian village.
But to knot up already at the beginning of the film, one has a dark and foreboding when Bulbul is reminded of her boyfriend Suman, her long, dark hair. Otherwise, you would look for the restless spirit of a girl home, had killed himself here. Bulbul agrees and binds her hair, but the Drama takes its course.
Story of a friendship: “Bulbul Can Sing”
“Bulbul Can Sing” is a story about the friendship of the Three to Find its own identity and first love. In their village and the school they spend much time together.
The camera accompanies you in your everyday life, if you Diwali kindle fire for the Hindu festival of lights, screeching in front of the fireworks, run away, and the marshy fields around great; as you wash the body of water, for the choir in school, how are you looking for the ausgebüxte pig and observe nature.
Rima has taken her story in wonderful pictures. Almost every setting is a Declaration of love to the nature – traumatizing without novel. The harshness of village life without paved roads, computers, and cell phones are not saves you.
Even experienced is a fiction
It is a fictional story, but not only. Rima has not led to the Film only directed, the screenplay was written. She is born in 1982 and grew up in the village in the Assam Region, in the North-East of India, where the Film was shot in Kalardiya in the vicinity of Guwahati. The film’s ensemble is almost performers exclusively from the laity.
Rima in front of the Berlinale Palast
If Bulbul is reprimanded by her mother not to be angry, but decent, and her dress is not high-tie, or the claims of their father, must face who wants to make you a professional singer, although she’s scared to sing in front of an audience, resonates well with the experiences of your life in the Region.
As the actress failed to
In 2003 moved to Mumbai to work as an actress. But she couldn’t professionally gain a foothold. In a DW Interview, she told how you’ve plunged into a Depression. You’ve finally decided to make their own films. And so it is that, although she has never attended a film Academy, for her third Film “Bulbul Can Sing” almost everything: from the script, using the scene image, the camera, direction, editing and production.
Her last Film “Village of the rock stars” was awarded as the best Film at the Indian National Film Award as the best foreign language Film into this year’s Oscar race sent, however, not nominated. “Bulbul Can Sing”, not only at the Berlinale in the Generation section, but celebrated its Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Back in the home village of Rima, The filming on location in Assam
In the case of “Bulbul Can Sing”, the references to the reality not only in the past: The filming of her last Film, also in their home village, have you made a boy’s attention, provides the template for Suman in the Film. He noticed her because of his feminine traits and because he residents of the village with the nickname of the “Ladies” is mocked.
In the Film, Suman Bulbuls hair want to cut and eyebrows trimmed. He is teased, asked if he will ever be a bride or groom and lipstick need. However, the real Boy from the village is not only the blueprint for Suman, he plays him well.
The Disaster
In the Film, he is finally to the key figure. As Bulbul and Bonny fell in love with your friends and Suman lookout pull to pass a troop of young men. You harass Suman, flees and can’t warn the Lovers in time. The force caught sitting with the two couples in the harmless side by side. In the manner of self-appointed moral guardian will not be intimidated Bulbul, Bonny and her two friends only, and beaten with sticks, but, finally, whether the supposedly-induced shame, and expelled from school.
“Bulbul Can Sing” tells of the first love and a dramatic turn of events
What follows has relation to its own history, told in the Berlinale-Interview. Bonny’t take it any longer, the humiliation, and the load and takes the life. It had been her best friend in College, says Rima, The.
“The other ruin your life“
If Bulbul does not get in the final scene, said that you should listen to others, because it is ruining your life, but only to your heart, it sounds a little cheesy. If you look at the life of Rima, it is rather a serious piece of advice.