R(evolution) A Film by Mustafa Zaveri

Film: R(evolution) Genre: Drama Logline: Three lives & a beach. Three decades & a book. Synopsis: A book is connected to the lives of three people from three different decades: 1970’s, 1980’s, and 1990’s. Mumbai, 1997. Feroz has lost his girlfriend to an accident. He tries to find meaning in life through books. One day he comes across a book by J. Krishnamurti, in which a date, a name, and an address are written on the back of the cover. 6th May, 1975 Dominic Fernandes 8, ocean villa, Palolem beach, Goa. While reading the book he comes across a marked passage which has a profound impact on him. The passage talks about coming to terms with the loss of a loved one. Feroz decides to travel to Goa to meet Dominic. He reaches Goa and finds Dominic who owns a beach restaurant. Dominic is astounded on seeing his book come back to him after 22 years. Feroz tells Dominic how the marked passage helped him cope with his girlfriend’s death and inquires about Dominic’s own loss. Dominic informs him that he’s not the one who marked that passage. This is where the third story comes in, Bombay 1988, where we see that a girl has marked the passage. So Feroz and Dominic happen to meet and form a strong bond because of the girl. Finally, Feroz leaves for Mumbai after finding a new friend in Dominic, and Dominic gets to read the book that left him 22 years ago. On the whole, this is a story about how ordinary people connect in extraordinary ways. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Synopsis): This independent Indian debut is a film whose story tells of the death of a loved one and takes its characters along a path which will ultimately enable them to grasp the meaning of human existence and the universe as a whole. The tormented protagonist searches for the meaning of life in books. In one that he buys in a bazaar, he finds a marked passage that paints a precise picture of his situation. The address of the book’s previous owner is written inside and the hero sets out to find him. He turns out to be the equable owner of a restaurant situated on a sunny beach in the middle of a captivatingly serene bay, who tells him that he was not the one who marked the passage. The film follows the journey of the book and its role in the lives of several people, tracing the way in which human destinies are bound together in time and space. Like the dialogues which abound in healthy insight and light spontaneity, it sees the Frisbee as a symbol of meditative reflection and offers alternative views of life, evolution, religion and also the tsunami catastrophe. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274728/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnNyLSCdGus