Cinema and Music

I just completed watching Mani Kaul's 'Uski Roti'. There is a lot to this movie, but I would like to make a note of one thing which i realized after watching the film. 

Many a times and almost is many movies the is an addition of a background score which suggest the emotion of the characters and films; this thus develops the mood for the viewer and she/he gets completely locked in the mood or emotion expressed by the film maker. Music many a times aids to the cinema and helps emphasize the expression, but excessive or unthoughtful use of it becomes a constraint to experience the film to its full potential, as many a times it doesn't allow the viewer to imagine or develop her/his own ideas about the film. It rather becomes a fact that the viewer makes a note of it rather than experiencing it. The ambiguity of the film is what allows the viewer to engage in the it and understand/experience the film by not just the act of 'watching', but by being a part of it, engaging with it.

'Uski Roti' challenges many such mainstream ideas of film making and one of it is that it deny the use of music in the film. Though this film is not the only film which does that, but with its unique story telling and use of a very strong shots, it pushes its expression to its much potential and this is what brought my attention to the use of background score in the films.