Rent Satyagraha (1983)

Paint Dries Quicker - Satyagraha review by CV

I'm afraid many will find this the aural equivalent of paint drying. While the audience seem to be an appreciative beard-scratching lot, I can imagine the boy up the tree (in the Emperor's New Clothes story) shouting out "But it's just four simple chords repeated over and over again!" Maybe I did nod off but I saw no references to Martin Luther King and there was just a hint of Tolstoy in the first act. Bland, very concordant and simple harmony but do give me that old, old piercing dissonant kind of music instead! The picture quality was also poor. How performers memorized such repetitive music and posed in static tableaux for minutes on end I know not.