Black
Michelle McNally is "special" in more ways than one. She cannot see... nor hear... nor speak... She inhabits a world of infinite black... of a seamless, endless void where nothing reaches her and she reaches nothing. Her world is frightening in its complete remoteness. On the sheer will of her ferocious rage against destiny, Michelle struggles to stay afloat in the impenetrable whirlpool her life has become.
Into this devastating isolation enters a battle weary teacher, Debraj Sahai, life's wounded but arrogantly insolent warrior.
With a single-minded obsession, Debraj takes up a challenge that is next to impossible - to lead this wild, uncontrollable child into the light of knowledge.
Thus begins a journey of two headstrong individuals. They will overcome what they seek is that moment of miracle - when the ray of knowledge will penetrate through the dense black of Michelle's life...
Black is the cathartic tale of a deaf, mute and blind girl who saw what people with sight fail to see - a vision of her God. Michelle McNally saw what other lesser mortals could not.
She saw her God... heard Him... and walked with Him... into the light...
Member Reviews
Excellent - srini88
Very rarely does Bollywood come close to matching the realism, sensitivity to this "Hellen Keller" inspired movie but both actors do a fantastic job of portaying their characters. Direction is superb and Amitah truly does a fantastic job. It is worth a watchBlack - AppsScraps
Black is an overacted ripoff of The Miracle Worker with a Bollywood bent. As such, it's worth a watch because - come on - when are you ever going to have that sort of a wonky mix? Better still, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali opts to mix pretentious English lines freely amid the Hindi. It's a wondrously strange brew and this reviewer had visions of Lilies dancing his head, almost as if Bhansali had initially conceived his film as a theatre piece. Frankly, the ripoff aside, the 'look' of this film is stunning. Amid the weirdness Amitabh Bachchan does a fine - if Malkovichian - job as 'Miracle Worker' Debraj Sahai to Helen Keller's Indian doppelganger Michelle McNally (Rani Mukherjee). Black won a slew of Awards of the International Indian Film Academy back in 2006 and is such a bizarre mix of styles and so overwrought it's well worth renting on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
My rating 7 out of 10.disappointing - Lindapatan
On the recommendation of a friend, I waited over a year and a half with this at #1 on my ziplist, but as it turns out, I was very disappointed. Yes, it was much like The Miracle Worker, but I didn't quite get why a movie made in India had to be Americanized. The character's names: 'Michelle', and the surname 'McNally'. Almost half the dialogue was in English - why? The characters were Christian at that! I was thinking in the back of my mind that the producers of this movie were wannabe Americans. Everything was ultra rich. I made it through the entire movie mainly because of the teacher's character. But the movie was disappointing to me.
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Excellent - srini88
Very rarely does Bollywood come close to matching the realism, sensitivity to this "Hellen Keller" inspired movie but both actors do a fantastic job of portaying their characters. Direction is superb and Amitah truly does a fantastic job. It is worth a watchBlack - AppsScraps
Black is an overacted ripoff of The Miracle Worker with a Bollywood bent. As such, it's worth a watch because - come on - when are you ever going to have that sort of a wonky mix? Better still, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali opts to mix pretentious English ...disappointing - Lindapatan
On the recommendation of a friend, I waited over a year and a half with this at #1 on my ziplist, but as it turns out, I was very disappointed. Yes, it was much like The Miracle Worker, but I didn't quite get why a movie made in India had to be Americanized. ...