A tragic love called Diana
Diana
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar
Ratings: 6/10
Much like her life, this film on Princess Diana also deals with many tragedies, the biggest one being an over simplified encapsulation of a very brief period of her life, a period that was very intense, very messed up and ultimately very complex. Actually too complex for the black and white veneer it was made to wear.
But that does not take away from your heart going out for the people's princess whose biggest snag in life was her unparalleled fame. "Can a surgery stitch up a broken heart?" She asks her heart doctor plaintively.
The film tells you that Dodi Al Fayed was not even a diversion for her. He was merely a ploy for a lovelorn girl trying to make her one and only love in life jealous. Another matter though that all she manages to get from her actual lover boy from Pakistan is a deathly silence and a bigger love in the doc's life, the love for his privacy over his love for Diana.
Naomi Watts tries her best to be Diana but who can really be Diana? She was one and only, rarest of rare. Naomi manages to portray a lonely woman's angst with life, her overwhelming need to be loved and her losing fight against ultimate doom. What she falls to splash though is the charm, the style and the rare mix of elegance and chutzpah princess Diana wore ever so easily. Also, she is a few notches shorter than the tall Diana who fuelled people's imagination worldwide till she drove into that tunnel in Paris never to return.
The film tells us that the Pakistani surgeon is still operating hearts at London. It also tells us that he did lay a wreath at his beloved's altar after spurning her consistently. Was this version the real version of Diana's tempestuous relationship with this doctor? No one will really know will he? As for the film, it is a poignant love story of this century's most charismatic personalities but one wishes it was a little less linear. Because Diana was anything but linear and her relationship with anyone couldn't have been so straight and so simple.
Grantee, this one is specifically focused on just this one relationship of her life. But her feelings for her children, her ties with the palace, her tussle with prince Charles -- all this coexisted even in this period of her life but all this is virtually ignored in the film.
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar
Ratings: 6/10
Much like her life, this film on Princess Diana also deals with many tragedies, the biggest one being an over simplified encapsulation of a very brief period of her life, a period that was very intense, very messed up and ultimately very complex. Actually too complex for the black and white veneer it was made to wear.
But that does not take away from your heart going out for the people's princess whose biggest snag in life was her unparalleled fame. "Can a surgery stitch up a broken heart?" She asks her heart doctor plaintively.
The film tells you that Dodi Al Fayed was not even a diversion for her. He was merely a ploy for a lovelorn girl trying to make her one and only love in life jealous. Another matter though that all she manages to get from her actual lover boy from Pakistan is a deathly silence and a bigger love in the doc's life, the love for his privacy over his love for Diana.
Naomi Watts tries her best to be Diana but who can really be Diana? She was one and only, rarest of rare. Naomi manages to portray a lonely woman's angst with life, her overwhelming need to be loved and her losing fight against ultimate doom. What she falls to splash though is the charm, the style and the rare mix of elegance and chutzpah princess Diana wore ever so easily. Also, she is a few notches shorter than the tall Diana who fuelled people's imagination worldwide till she drove into that tunnel in Paris never to return.
The film tells us that the Pakistani surgeon is still operating hearts at London. It also tells us that he did lay a wreath at his beloved's altar after spurning her consistently. Was this version the real version of Diana's tempestuous relationship with this doctor? No one will really know will he? As for the film, it is a poignant love story of this century's most charismatic personalities but one wishes it was a little less linear. Because Diana was anything but linear and her relationship with anyone couldn't have been so straight and so simple.
Grantee, this one is specifically focused on just this one relationship of her life. But her feelings for her children, her ties with the palace, her tussle with prince Charles -- all this coexisted even in this period of her life but all this is virtually ignored in the film.
Source: Sunday Pioneer, October 6, 2013
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