Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The "Gulaal" couldn't help it to bring color!

I recently watched Gulaal, this guy Anurag Kashyap seriously needs to come out of his Dev D phase, the first half was turning out to be something which promised almost a second Yuva and was really making the audience wonder(with considerable interest) what was going to happen next but suddenly the second half transformed into an all too familiar plot of loser who is a bit unrealistic, really regarding the girl who used him and never sees the other girl who had been there in front of him all this time, also along with all that he kills of a big shot later finding out that the bad guys were using him to kill that guy all along(he was the only one who was dumb as not to understand that), all to predictable and very stale sub plot, which takes the predominance from the second half, in fact after watching the entire film it makes one wonder whether the entire film(even the good parts) were made just so as to enable that fool of a hero to reach that awfully predictable end.

The initial concept of this a looser lover has, of late, become so very tiring and this film had so much scope of becoming an outstanding movie in all it's aspect, but it was as far as that...

However, the Songs were a different story altogether, the lyrics were so very realistic, with regards to the fact that they are extremely close to the satirical folk-ish songs that are created all over rural India. I was supremely impressed, but that's it....I mean one can say as much about the film and nothing more.

The only other thing I would like to point out is the fact that the actors were extraordinarily good and I mean all of them right from the silent mimic to the brusque and barking oratory of Kay Kay Menon.

2 comments:

  1. I regretfuly disagree. Gulal is Khashayap's finest piece of art till date. It potrays reality of politics, ideals and ofcourse the over hyped concept of love & sex.
    But, each on to his own brother- each on to his own.

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  2. Hey thanks a lot for that very laconic point of view, in fact that is why I encourage people to counter the Devil's Advocate! We get to see so many wonderous distinctions of points of view....Thanks a lot!

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