I’m speechless… I had expected ‘Black’ - a 2005 Indian movie about a girl that is both deaf, mute, and blind - to be a good movie based on the ratings, but I didn’t expect it to be this good. I was expecting a tough but beautiful movie that would not really make me feel very happy. I was wrong… ‘Black’ was a very beautiful movie, but it was also a very uplifting movie filled with hope and light.

I had always wondered how somebody experiences the world who cannot see nor hear nor speak. I won’t say that this movie showed me, but it did gave me some hints. And it certainly gave us an interesting view on this girl’s world of blackness.

I really liked something the director says in the booklet:

“This is my most positive film, though the title says otherwise. Black deals with one simple area of life, the darkest phase every human being goes through. Black is a tribute to man’s instinct for survival. It’s aobut the spirit of a human being going from darkness to light… a human being in search of excellence.” - Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Those that haven’t seen ‘Black’ yet, go see it or rent it or whatever. It is an Indian masterpiece.
My score for ‘Black’: 9/10.

Underneath you find the story of the movie as it is portraid in the booklet:

“Michelle Mcnally is “special” in more ways than one. She cannot see… nor hear nor speak… She inhabits a world of infinite black… of a seamless, endless void where nothing reaches her and she reaches nothing. Her world is frightening in its complete remoteness. On the sheer will of her ferocious rage against destiny, Michelle struggles to stay afloat in the impenetrable whirlpool her life has become.

Into this devestating isolation enters a battle weary teacher. Debraj Sahai, life’s wounded but arrogantly insolent warrior. With a single minded obsession, Debraj takes up a challenge that is next to impossible - to lead this wild, uncontrollable child into the light of knowledge.

Thus begins a journey of two headstrong individuals. They will overcome failures, obstacles, even ridicule as they tread the path less taken. What they seek is that moment of miracle when the ray of knowledge will penetrate through the dense black of Michelle’s life… ‘Black’ is the cathartic tale of a deaf, mute and blind girl who saw what people with sight fail to see, a vision of her God. Michelle Mcnally saw what other lesser mortals could not.

She saw her God, hear him and walked with him into the light…” - Booklet of ‘Black’