Laughing Club

     The main theme in this film shows modernism but still traditional at the same time. How the city of Bombay has a lot of adverstisments of new things like technology, cell phones, hair products, etc. Then you see some shots of people carring baskets on their heads, traditional clothing. Then a second later you see cars driving around. So, it shows you the contrast and similarity of the modern and traditional aspects of the area. And with the laughing, it is sort of a silly thing and yet you see the peole, dressed for work, and in the traditional clothing.

     With the laughter club, it allows you to express any fear or sorrow yo had/have. In the film, it has people telling their stories, in intimate settings, telling how life is hard for them, how they have to live, the workplace, tension, all the things that bother them, and they are told to just laugh by Dr. Kataria.

     Dr. Kataria was the founder of The Laughing Club because he saw in Reader’s Digest an article about how laugher is the best medicine, so he fiigured, that is a much easier way to medicate someone, without payment.

     The way the film goes is working people, then children, then old people. How that protrays the compression of the city. As well as how the stories with so many eople living together, 14-15 people living in one room. The shadows with that story is very dim, early morning, almost like inside of a cave because of the gloomy set up they have. And then how most of the story was in natural lighting.

     As it is easy to tell because of the immense shadows in the film, and how dark it is in some of the shots. Then the interveiw with the Doctor, on the beach, the lightness of that portion of the film, and how the sun hits him from the side, and it doesn’t seem dark or gloomy for a second.

     However, the whole purpose of the Laughing Club is for people to be able to meet others, to find something that is similar between them is laughing. I’m pretty sure that sentence jsut didn’t make sense to you but, oh well!

     So, until next time--