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I rarely watch films, but I watched "Black" and I liked it.

“Black” is yet another watchable film form Sanjay Leela Bansali. The story line is not new as it may first sound. The thrust of the film is in portraying Amitabh Bachchan as an innovative, dedicated middle-aged Indian teacher, who takes up the challenge of teaching and developing an eight year old girl, born completely deaf, dumb and blind in an Englo-Indian family. Her world is completely “Black” in every sense of human existence. She lacked everything a human would require to make any sense of world and of human existence. The only way to enable her make any sense of common worldly concepts and categories through which she could make some sense of world and her life was to teach her through the sense of touch, the only cognitive means she was left with apart form a body and a brain.

However, by showing the dependency on western methods of sign language and use of English vocabulary, fades the character of Indian teacher away and portrays him more as a secondary genius and not as a primary and original genius.

Amitabh Bachchan superbly performs his role as a persistent and dedicated middle-aged teacher and Rani Mukherjee is simply brilliant as the grown up deaf, dumb and blind girl who eventually gets her BA graduation after twelve years of hard work, while helping her own teacher who, over the time, gets caught up in the Alzheimer disease.

BTW, there is one noticeable and praiseworthy novelty in the film; there are no songs and typical senseless dance scenes.