Cinematic Language in Select Indian Hyper Narratives

Abstract

Alissa Quart in her review “Happy Endings: The Post Nuclear Family according to Don Ross” speaks about numerous techniques employed by Ross in his hyper narrative film. The term hyperlink cinema was itself coined by Alissa in her afore mentioned review with reference to Happy Endings thus making it a leading example of hyper narrative cinema. It is the style of film dealing with complex or multilinear narrative structures. Distinctive techniques assist to build and foreground the narrative. This paper will attempt to identify and examine the techniques employed by select Indian directors in their respective films. through multiple techniques of split screen, frame inside the frame, using locomotive as the symbol of connection, crossed roads, by means of making city as the binding agent and through some stock characters, one can analyse the formula. To generate a multilinear narrative becomes a comparatively easier task with such techniques at ones disposal. These directors provides us the direction of analysing and understanding the ways of a hyper narrative in a profound manner.