Tamasha

Tamasha' ...

Removal of .the mask.

I finally catch up with Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha,  on television.

To me at least, It speaks of how innate dogged  non compromising honesty of one person,(Deepika)  shows another person(Ranbir) the right way.

A very careless young single gal, who dares to lose her passport in a strange land, is helped by an equally strange single lad.

The lad is strange, because he is not playing any pre conceived role. He has no mask. It automatically frees her of any possible masking too.

As they exhilarate is their rare ability to communicate without masks, the gal knows life will never be the same again.

No more masks. They suffocate, and kill.

The guy does not know this. yet.
He has got his mask stuck on for so long, that he doesn't realise it is a mask. Strange lands help him lose it, but not quite.  At least not yet. As of now, he still mistakes his mask for skin. And skin for mask!

She is saddened. Cause she knows it's a wonderful opportunity being lost.

She does not intend to save him, its not her job, but for her to be saved by him, he has to be  saved first!

She tries her best.
Why do you want to go West? We are supposed to go to the East.

All are going West. He says.

Not us. We have to go to the East. Our happiness lies in the East.

East is dead end.all are going West.

East maybe dead end, but west is death.

How do you know? Why should I trust your judgement?

I just know! Four years is a long enough time to know!  ( they had caught up again,   after a four year gap, after the holiday week in a strange land).

I am West bound. Come with me.

No, I won't go to the East, without you, , but I won't go West with you either. Instead il wait for you to be ready to go East with me.

The lad fights his battles, tears off his mask, bloody but victorious.

One day, as she had hoped, he come unannounced!

I am going East! Wanna join?!!!!!