It is a performances centric movie

Brilliant and touching

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

First of all i would like to thank Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali for presenting an excellent article based on an EXTRA-ORDINARY person's struggling life who has learned to live with independently in this hardly world. Secondly i will thanking to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who acted so brilliant in this movie as a teacher & shows us the proper way how to teach an EXTRA-ORDINARY student. Thirdly again thanking to Ms. Rani Mukherjee for her outstanding acting in a very tough character where she successfully rolled as a special lady. Actually there has no any question how talent or brilliant are Mr. Amitabh & Ms. Rani but the real fact is how they represent them in a different story-line which is totally opposites as their normal filming role. Really they done it with a fantastic art.Form this movie we learned 2 very crucial lesson. Firstly: how to deal with a special human with loving care & Secondly: nothing is impossible for a human-being whatever he or she is, special or normal.Subject & filming both combination given this movie perfection and it's total credits goes to Mr. Rajoo for his good story-line & Mr. Sanjay Leela Bhansali for well direction.By the way, i am very surprised to think, why this awesome creation not goes to Oscar? I don't know, what was the reason mean Mr. Director didn't submitted it to Oscar board or he has submitted but for some unknown reason it is not selected for nomination by the jury? Anyway, thanks for reading my review & before go last thing to say to all the movie lover: "WATCHING MOVIE, always placed it to no1 in your hobby list cause movie is the mirror of society which always reflects our daily activities.Thank You.

THE VOICE OF SILENT FINGERS: B.L.A.C.K''I will attach a wing to her, and I will teach her to fly'' says Debraj Sahai. What does the word ''black'' refer to you? Is it darkness and drowning? The word of fear and harbinger of doom? Or the only color that blind people see? No. Not at all. ''It is a color of achievement, it is a color of knowledge and the color of graduation vest'' says Michelle, whose world is full of light. From the beginning of the world people have been scared of the word or the appearance of black because it always aroused a feeling of misdoing, hopelessness and emotional distance. Yet, I believe that after watching the BLACK, as I recommend you drastically, you will assign a different meaning to the word. The film begins with Michelle Mcnally, a blind and deaf woman, visiting her teacher Debraj Sahai who has an Alzheimer's disease. Then film goes to past with the usage of flashback technique.Michelle is a tetchy girl. She doesn't know how to eat dinner with her family, she doesn't know how to behave a baby or how to share her feelings with other people. She was awarded with blindness and deafness when she was just a little baby though so how can we judge her behaviors because of this…While I was watching the movie all I can thing was what a challenging life for Michelle and her desperate parents. So I have a question for you. Which way would you prefer to communicate with a person who doesn't see and hear you? Wouldn't be that person as fearful as a newborn gazelle? Michelle grows up more and more frustrated by black and darkness around her which makes her violent, uncontrollable eight years old child. Then a miracle happiness. A magician shows up in her life. Her 'Tea..' … Debraj Sahai is the person and a teacher who pulls her to the light. They starts a journey which could never end until their last breath because Debraj devotes his 18 years of his life to Michelle. They can't be separated. They are like one soul in different bodies… There were some scenes which you can get angry to Debraj because of his ways of teaching. But if you be patient, after every lesson you can see the enormous results on Michelle. I bet your anger will turn into appreciation. Being grateful and determined guides you how to reach to the success. Do not put the word ''impossible'' in your world like Michelle because there is not such a thing like impossible. If it would be impossible, God would never put us through anything that we are not able to do and all of those obstacles that we face with. Your world is not black, it is full of light. You just have to know how to turn on the lights

i saw this movie in DVD some years ago...initially i was afraid to watch it ...!! i felt its mamool sentiment drama-art like picture... but after hooking to it....finishing movie watching i can feel the coldness of tears rolling down from my cheeks....wahv..!!what an film..... its such an film that in some heart touching moments scenes u cant control yourself from shedding tears...amitabh ji and rani excels in acting..that too too naturally.authentically....same can be said to child actress..(sad demise..rip)after watching some Hollywood movies on such an issues i thought -y cant v make it here?.... here's answer for it....in black form..in every department perfect work.. bansali keeps our hopes alive..climax makes viewers almost cry... its a must watch movie... and its not for those who hate sentiment-off the attention movies.....for others its a worth watch.....i will give it whole marks... and it deserves justifiably...

Sanjay Leeela Bhansali's Black is definitely a good film. It is brilliantly scripted, made and executed, and it is also profound and complex. Many have called it a pretentious show, and indeed, that's something very obvious and annoying. I'm sure Bhansali from the very outset had planned to get many awards, five-star reviews, and "the-best-filmmaker-in-the-country" titles, but that said, nobody can completely begrudge him since this movie is as impressive and well-invested as it is ostentatious, and it deserves the hype. Let's start with saying that technically and visually Black is a treat. It boasts of fantastic sets and wonderful costumes, and the cinematography is incredibly good. All these, along with the superb background score, create a beautifully dark film. Having said that, this may be the exact reason why many viewers found it hard to relate to, and that's something I can easily understand, particularly after having seen his best feature to date, Khamoshi: The Musical, in which everything was kept simple. Here there's no simplicity: everything is lavish, big, grandiose - and that's why it's often labelled pretentious. The film is emotional yet unsentimental, which is good, but then, one of its main flaws is the fact that more than once it resorts to emotional manipulation, trying to forcibly wring tears.Well, one thing is sure and it is that you can always expect good acting in a SLB film, particularly when it has an Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan's performance is out of this world. His character goes through many phases, and each time you feel he's sinking into it more and more, so much that no words can be found to describe it. Seeing an actor of his calibre still being there, and playing a part with such passion, intensity, emotion, anger and hunger, makes one believe that the sky is the limit. Along with Yuva, Hum Tum and Veer-Zaara, Black is a film that constructs Rani Mukherjee's transformation from an average performer to a mature actress. She plays the character brilliantly. The scene which had her crying on the phone to her mom, is one of her career-best acts. It's cruel that she is cast opposite Bachchan, as she can't take the whole credit to herself, and well, frankly speaking, in my view her role is not as powerful as his, as it is a technical part that requires extensive training rather than soul. It's still a memorable performance, and in her case, if the sky is the limit, Black was probably the sky. Without taking anything from Mukherjee, I was more impressed and amazed by the far more superior performance of Ayesha Kapur, who played the young Michelle to perfection. Kapur is simply flawless in this role.Sanjay Leela Bhansali is a crafted filmmaker who knows his work and his goals very well. In spite of its flaws, Black remains artistic and it is overall a moving movie experience. The words hope, love, dedication and success always come to the mind while watching it. It might not be original, it may be extremely manipulative at points, but the effort that was put into it by the entire cast and crew is evident and appreciable. Black is definitely better than most of the films made in the Hindi film industry. Though for me too it is a mixed bag, I admit that the first time I saw it, I kept thinking of it after the show had ended and for quite some time. This is an achievement few films can achieve (for me), and here's why my high rating.