I checked out this movie from NetFix on the strength of user comments like "it gets tears to my eyes," "sheer poetry in motion," "I was totally blown away by this film" along with it's 8.6 IMDb rating. To make a long story short, it was was one of the greatest disappointments I ever had with a film. If you want to hear my opinion, it is a third-rate tear-jerker, a formulaic melodrama with weak acting and stagy direction.
Could it be some kind of cultural blockage that prevented me from seeing "Anand's" greatness? I doubt it. I certainly didn't experience a cultural handicap appreciating Satyajit Ray's superb works or more recent Indian masterpieces like Deepa Mehta's "Earth" or Mira Nair's delightful and highly entertaining "Monsoon Wedding," - to mention only a few.
There's no accounting for taste, I guess...
Could it be some kind of cultural blockage that prevented me from seeing "Anand's" greatness? I doubt it. I certainly didn't experience a cultural handicap appreciating Satyajit Ray's superb works or more recent Indian masterpieces like Deepa Mehta's "Earth" or Mira Nair's delightful and highly entertaining "Monsoon Wedding," - to mention only a few.
There's no accounting for taste, I guess...