The Oscars 2022 is now over and it has had its fair share of controversies. While fans are celebrating the winners, people still can’t get over the trauma that The Power Of The Dog bagged just one award after 12 nominations at hand.
But the most successful film has to be AppleTV+’s CODA which grabbed all the awards it was nominated for. It is about a girl called Ruby who is the only hearing member of her family and helps them earn a living. She is highly interested in music and wants to pursue it but yet again the pressure to help her family keeps crumbling her expectations.
But jog your memory back in 1996 when Sanjay Leela Bhansali debuted as a director with Khamoshi: The Musical. If you haven’t watched that exceptionally great musical then we highly recommend you to visit it on Disney+Hotstar Or Prime Video. It is free to stream on Disney+Hotstar.
It had an intoxicating album which was composed by Jatin-Lalit and the legendary Majrooh Sultanpuri penned the lyrics.
Regardless, even Khamoshi: The Musical was a film in which Manisha Koirala was the only hearing member of her family and unknowingly her deaf and mute parents act as an embarrassment for her.
But in both the film, music helps them to achieve the love of their life and that happens after a performance in which Annie (Manisha Koirala) and Ruby (Emilia Jones) sing in front of their families.
Needless to say, both the films have immense similarities but the main conflict of the film is fundamentally different. Both the films are great but we can’t ignore the fact that Khamoshi talked about the challenge of such a character way before CODA did. Also, if we judge Khamoshi only through cinematic perspective then it never disappoints us and is brilliant, to say the least.