A film so compact that it will leave you gasping for breath. ‘Khakee’ is one of the smartest - if not the smartest - cop dramas ever made in Hindi Cinema. Irrfan stood out with his portrayal of Ranvijay, a man who possessed the convincing power of a Godman but harboured Machiavellian motives. Dhulia’s characters were regular people from a small town in India who had their distinct set of ambitions, struggles, fears and motivations. Tigmanshu Dhulia – an alumnus of Allahabad University – had observed its politics on close quarters and translated it on to the celluloid with enviable perfection. It’s fairly certain that there couldn’t have been another man who could have made such an accurate account of the prevalent student politics in Uttar Pradesh. It demands multiple viewings to understand the complete message. The question is – who will be alive to reap the benefits. It’s only a matter of time before it explodes. The volatile student politics joins hands with the dominant, angst-ridden vision of royals from princely states and gives birth to a ticking time bomb. It’s common knowledge that Anurag Kashyap liberally incorporated Mishra’s work from his numerous theatre acts and writings and gave life to one of the most intelligent political drama in Hindi Cinema. The soul of ‘Gulaal’ is its subtext and Piyush Mishra’s lyrics. ‘Wake up Sid’ is his best film till date and I won’t be surprised if it will remain so even at the end of his career. There’s so much to love about this simple yet beautiful film that it is hard to believe that Mukherjee now only wants to make big-budgeted commercial potboilers. But that risk pays off in a big way because coming-of-age dramas don’t come in better form or shape than this. By going against the conventional norms of what a Bollywood romance should look like, Ayan Mukherjee took a big risk. The fact that ‘Wake up Sid’ got made in Bollywood is in itself path-breaking. He extracted fine performances from Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai but Mani’s masterstroke came in the form of Manikdas Gupta and Shyam Saxena played by Mithun Chakravarthy and Madhavan. Mani Ratnam never set out to make an eulogy out of it and stuck to his guns. And unlike other biopics, ‘Guru’ does not shy away from exploring the darker shades of Dhirubhai’s personality as well as his transactions with the business and administrative world. Guru (2007)ĭhirubhai’s gritty struggle and phenomenal rise got a feature-length it deserved. ‘Kaminey’ is also remembered fondly by its loyalists for its legendary characters of Bhope Bhau and Mikhail. Shahid played twins – one with a stammer and one with a lisp – with absolute conviction and delivered not one but two of his career’s best performances – Guddu and Charlie – in a single film. What makes ‘Kaminey’ inimitable is its inner workings, its conversations, the maze it weaves as it progresses and its exceptional supporting cast. At the outset, ‘Kaminey’ is a simple story of two brothers who go separate ways only to cross each other’s path at a later stage. He was fascinated for the longest time by Caper genre and decided to pay homage to such films as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. This was an unusual departure for Vishal Bhardwaj in relation to his previous films. It is scary world that Jha creates, infused with a sense of realism and urgency previously unseen in Indian cinema. Set in an unspecified time frame when incessant female infanticide has left a rural Indian society without women, ‘Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women’ follows a patriarchal and misogynistic father in his attempt to find a bride to satisfy the lust of his four sons.
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A movie even most Indians might have not heard about which is quite a shame because this Manish Jha directed flick is one of the most shocking and disturbing films we have ever seen.