Transistor movie review is here. The Amazon mini TV’s first exclusive short film stars Ahsaas Channa (of Hostel Daze, Girls Hostel fame) & Mohammad Samad (of Chichhore, Tumbbad fame). Written and directed by Prem Singh Transistor is streaming exclusively on Amazon mini TV.
Transistor Movie Review
Set in 1975 rural India, Transistor is a love story of two teenagers and how the proclamation of the National Emergency and a Transistor made all the difference to their relationship. A haunting love story where silence speaks more than words and echoes the emotion with a chorus. Transistor is a nicely crafted subtle tale of love that instigates a debate on voice, choice, rich, poor, fear, love, pain and more.
How a Transistor becomes the tool of connection and a source of motivation for a young girl (Ahsaas Channa) and boy (Mohammad Samad).
There is an old time charm of the golden era in their romance, those gazes, coy faces, watching their beloved from behind the tree.
Nothing groundbreaking in the plot but the execution and the brilliant use of Transistor as the metaphor is a clear cut example of the micro-macro approach and is striking in its reach and overall sweep.
The performances are fabulous. Ahsaas Channa is fantastic and she adapts herself perfectly. Mohammad Samad is rightly cast and he is into the skin of his character right from the word go. Sreechith Vijayan Damodar’s cinematography is perfectly in sync with the atmosphere and the emotions of the actors.
The reason why I say ‘haunting’ is due to the following two scenes that stand out from the various other metaphors used by Prem Singh in this 25 minutes gem.
A bare tree next to a lush one – fertility, infertility, emergency, the mass sterilization drive that has placed humans in two different categories.
An empty boat leaving the shore and drifting into the middle of the river – how people, things, situations change the course of one’s life.
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