Sunday, September 27, 2009

Fiddling on Youtube

One of my all-time favorite cinema moments. Nothing can underline the harrowing loss in tragedy more than humor and a celebration of life - think Chaplin's tramp - and Fiddler on the Roof is one of those rare achievements.

I have always thought Fiddle on the Roof would translate so perfectly to our own story of Partition. I imagine Tevye as a big Sardaar!






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Blotter said...
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12:10 AM
Blotter said...

Ah! I love this movie too! I had listened to its music almost ALL my life and then only recently had I gotten hold of the CD. Superb music, great acting, thoroughly entertaining yet at times so heart wrenching...

12:11 AM
Tangled up in blue... said...

And this has the classic "Matchmaker matchmaker, make me a match! Find me a find, catch me a catch!"

I saw this movie aeons ago, and remarkably I remember thinking how it ends on such a perfectly real note. Not like one of those Hollywoody stories..

5:14 PM
Bland Spice said...

:)

I saw this play when I was 12. My sister played the match maker.

It was my first English play and I sat through it with a hole in my mouth big enough to fit a football.

5:21 PM

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