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It's only when an 80 plus man has an obsession and has no problems in letting it be visible to the entire world, that a film like Gaja Gamini is made. Gaja
Gamini is walking like the elephant. Now for you and me this hardly sounds elegant, but who can argue with artists who live by their fertile imaginations? So Husain focuses just on Madhuri's back (her bottom actually) for a good half an hour of the film, and sporadically throughout. According to Husain who had waxed eloquent about his film for months before its release, the film would be the epitome of womanhood. It is. But seeing an artist's canvas or installation is one thing, watching him to his thing on a livewire medium like cinema is something else
altogether. But grant him one thing, even if you completely rip him for his wafer thin storyline. He picked up the best for the film and quality always shows. Sharmishta Roy for set design, lighting and cinematography (Ashok Mehta). It's hard to say what Gaja Gamini is about in a few lines. Gaja Gamini is the elusive fantasy woman who is wanted by artists, poets and princes. So Leonardo da Vinci (Naseeruddin Shah), Kalidas (Mohan Agashe), Kaamdev, an English prince (Inder Kumar) all seek this woman and see her what they want to in her. There's Shah Rukh Khan too playing a journalist. Madhuri plays a blind singer, Kalidas' Shankuntala. The best part of the film is madhuri's gorgeous drop-dead looks and her performance.
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