Dear Father Review: If you want to see the importance of editing in a film, watch ‘Dear Father’

Recently a film has been released on Amazon Prime Video – Dear Father. There is a lot of confusion in the audience about this film as to who is its creator. It is shown in the opening credits of the film that the screenplay is written by Aditya Rawal. Dr. Vivek Bele has been named for the original story and screenplay and it has also been written that this film is an adaptation of Gujarat’s famous play writer Uttam Gada’s famous play ‘Dear Father’. Research doesn’t give correct information because this play is being staged since last many years but in 2018 a film was made on this story in Marathi starring Nana Patekar – ‘Apla Manoos’, whose writer-screenplay was Vivek Bele And this film was made on Vivek Bele’s famous play ‘Katkon Trikon’. Well, moving away from this controversy, one thing will be clear in the mind of every viewer from the film ‘Dear Father’, some films need a great editor, especially a film based on a drama. Dear Father, based on a good story, is too long and the whole sense of mystery has been destroyed by not assembling the scenes properly.

In Dear Father, Paresh Rawal is a retired man who lives in a flat with his lawyer son. While his son (Chetan Dhanani) is a bit submissive, doesn’t speak much in front of his father, his wife (Mansi Parekh) is a school teacher who is hot-tempered and doesn’t like any interference in her life, especially of her father-in-law. He feels that his father-in-law is old-fashioned, connects everything with rituals, calls every expenditure a wasteful expenditure and is so conservative that he wants to establish his prestige in front of his neighbors by making up fabricated stories. As it happens, Paresh Rawal and Mansi keep quarreling with each other many times and Chetan tries to establish peace by mediating between the two. On one such night, Paresh Rawal falls down from his balcony and is taken to the hospital. An Inspector (Paresh Rawal, in the second role) comes to investigate the case, who is seen in different ways, first proving the case to be a suicide and then a murder. To make both Chetan and Mansi accused, they present various theories and evidences. After everything, when it seems that one of the two will go to jail, both Chetan and Mansi are saved by the statement given by old Paresh Rawal in the hospital and Inspector Paresh Rawal is suspended.

Paresh Rawal has been staging the play ‘Dear Father’ written by Uttam Gada for the last several years. Among his many superhit plays, ‘Dear Father’ is counted among the best plays. This is the second Gujarati film in the career of Paresh Rawal, who started his career in 1982 with a Gujarati film named Naseeb Ni Balihari. That means after 40 years he is doing a Gujarati film. In 2018, Aapla Manoos starring Nana Patekar has the same story and Nana Patekar along with director Satish Rajwade gave the story and screenplay of Vivek Belle a mystery thriller. Vivek had earlier written a play called Katakon Triangle in which renowned theater actor Dr. Mohan Agashe played the lead role. The film ‘Dear Father’ is actually a true story of father-son-daughter-in-law-father-in-law relationship. At present, whenever the elders of the house give any lesson or advice to the new generation, they do not like it. The saying that this used to happen in our era may sound ridiculous, it may sound old, it may sound like a narrow ideology whereas the reality is that powerful capitalism has made a mockery of human sensibilities. Today we spend lakhs of rupees in buying a phone so that the people of the house stay in touch but forget that the elders of the house are not happy to talk on the phone but are happy to spend some time with them. It is not necessary to buy a big house on EMI, but spending time with everyone in any house makes it a home. It is necessary to spread the feet according to the sheet, not Rinam Kritva Ghritam Pibet. The worldwide disease has taught us the meaning of savings and also the uselessness of credit cards. We have now understood the meaning of staying healthy, but the reason for the competition to move ahead by harming our health is still not understood.

Paresh Rawal is in top form. As an elder and also as a police officer. A wonderful scene. When Police Inspector Paresh Rawal visits Mansi Parekh at school, he introduces himself as a representative of a feminist organization. Mansi asks him why so, Paresh replies that police have come to meet you, then people would have misunderstood Mansi. For some time Mansi tells Paresh that his (Inspector Paresh’s) face is very similar to his father-in-law, to which Paresh replies that those whose sorrows are similar, their faces often match. At the end of the film, it is understood that the relationship between Paresh and his son is also not good. Mansi Parekh’s acting is also good. The character of Mansi, a modern-day girl who cares as much about her career as her husband, who doesn’t get bogged down in household chores and takes on anyone for her views, is also thoughtfully written. Is. Chetan, in the character of Mansi’s husband and Paresh’s son, forgets himself while spending time in harmony between father and wife. His anger while confronting the police officer Paresh Rawal seems completely justified and genuine.

The irony of the film ‘Dear Father’ is that it is very long. Actually, Marathi film Aapla Manoos was also of similar length, yet it seems boring for a very short time while ‘Dear Father’ seems too long. The reason for this is editing. In mystery films, if flashback and flash forward are used in balance, then the mystery remains. The flashbacks in ‘Dear Father’ seem to be overused. The scenes of the film should have been shortened. Some dialogues should have been sacrificed. While adapting from drama to film, it is important to remember that drama takes place on a set, is live and films can use different sets, different colors, costumes. There is a difference between the language of drama and the language of film. Director of ‘Dear Father’ Umang Vyas should have taken care of this. Even before this, he has made a Marathi film ‘Ventilator’ in Gujarati. ‘Dear Father’ can be made a great film only with the help of right editing. Seeing this, it is realized that how important is the right editing.

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