I am a 67 year old retired lecturer. Recently I had the pleasure in viewing a short film titled Boot Polish by a new director named Aneel Ahmad.
I really cannot describe in words how moved and how impressed i was by this short film and by the director.
Boot Polish is a piece of art and the film director has all the hallmarks of becoming one of the most important film directors of his generation.
There is perhaps no filmmaker who exercised such total control over his work as Satyajit Ray and Aneel Ahmad has publicly stated that he was heavily influenced by the workings of Ray.
Like Satyajit Ray, Aneel Ahmad was in charge for scripting, casting, directing, scoring, operating the camera, working intimately on art direction and editing, even shaping his own publicity material.
Ahmad' individual personal expression, strikes a carefully judged balance between form and content.Transforming the utterly mundane into exciting cinematic perfection.
The film reveals attitude, and sympathies in a subtle manner, through hints and via undertones.
Boot Polish's style grows out of the material itself, and from an inner compulsion to express it through visuals. The storyline that connects Boot Polish works concurrently with its enthusiastic musical association and humanist origin.
Boot Polish is a film of magnificent importance with outstanding film composition and excellent direction.
All in all 2 different directors from 2 very different generations with one ideology - human documentation and cinematic excellence.
10- 10 Marvellous
I really cannot describe in words how moved and how impressed i was by this short film and by the director.
Boot Polish is a piece of art and the film director has all the hallmarks of becoming one of the most important film directors of his generation.
There is perhaps no filmmaker who exercised such total control over his work as Satyajit Ray and Aneel Ahmad has publicly stated that he was heavily influenced by the workings of Ray.
Like Satyajit Ray, Aneel Ahmad was in charge for scripting, casting, directing, scoring, operating the camera, working intimately on art direction and editing, even shaping his own publicity material.
Ahmad' individual personal expression, strikes a carefully judged balance between form and content.Transforming the utterly mundane into exciting cinematic perfection.
The film reveals attitude, and sympathies in a subtle manner, through hints and via undertones.
Boot Polish's style grows out of the material itself, and from an inner compulsion to express it through visuals. The storyline that connects Boot Polish works concurrently with its enthusiastic musical association and humanist origin.
Boot Polish is a film of magnificent importance with outstanding film composition and excellent direction.
All in all 2 different directors from 2 very different generations with one ideology - human documentation and cinematic excellence.
10- 10 Marvellous