Monday, March 26, 2012

Kahaani: In the streets of Kolkata


Movie freeze you in the chair. I must say a great transformation by the Director Sujoy Ghosh. The movie seems entirely bollywood with a poles apart concept and absolutely exceptional thriller.

The script, storytelling and the direction is an excellent job. Right from the start of the movie, you get a hold on it, it don’t let you think. Conflicts are the strongest part of the story, so is the denouement. Whereas, the climax goes unexpected, so is the unexpected role of Namaste Killer. 

The Bidya Bagchi comes from London in search of her missing husband, who came to Kolkatta for two weeks to work with National Data Centre. Bidya don’t receive any call from him and this forces Bidya to come Kolkatta in search of her husband Arnab Bagchi.


I must say my hats off to Bidya Balan, who acted both as actor and actress of movie. It is a movie, getting success without any actor. It certainly proves the emancipation of women in the story of movie as well, the role Bidy Balan opts. Kolkatan called her Bidya or Bidaa instead of Vidya.

No one Killed Jessica, Paa, The Dirty Picture and now Kahaani are itself enough to follow a track record of emerging fae of Vidya Balan. And that too release of Kahaani on International Women’s Day was a nice idea.

The streets of Kolkata move you to a trance. You are spell bounded by the language and mis-en-scenes of Kolkata. The rains, lightings, culture, Durga idols, Sindur Khela and down to earth, cooperative Kolkatan.
Every shot, sequence and cut is perfectly fitted and I must appreciate the job of Editor, whose work can be clearly visualized.

The small things made movie perfect like the silence of sub inspector, the radio of running water guy, the hotel manager statement – “Jaisa aap theek samjhe”, the smoking intelligent bureau agent, the Namaste Killer who had it’s fantastic role, the HR manager of company, the retired inspector who give the details, the computer which gives error, a glass of tea, the Milan Dambji documents and Mr. Briefcase.
Rana is an innocent, soft character which plays with the concealed brain that gets unveiled at last. I personally applaud for him.

Infact, the rarest topics like “Bombay Blood Group” was literally unanticipated. Well there was a strong message hidden in the story, i.e. Corruption. The futile and dangerous people like Milan Dambji are safe in the country because of officers. They don’t exist in records, but they breathe free.

The tight fitted music fills your curiosity with more excitements and those who have gone for spending time with loved ones may found Vidya fetching their attention with her reel presence.
The song by Amitabh Bacchan is integral and seems beautiful when Vidya look after the Red bordered saree. 


The last scene of Sindur Khela forces you to paint Red, where the color Red is so forcefully anticipated in screening emotions, worship, supremacy, blood and feminist power. 

There are only few things, which were not fitted in the movie. Ekla chalo re in western version was incapable to cope up and secondly when Bidya don’t put her signatures in the police station was adequate to envisage that Vidya is lying.
Secondly, the name of movie still forces me to think that why “Kahaani”

Last but not the least, the last scene which shows immersion of giant Durga idol takes the viewers heart away as if you feel the jiffy.

Overall, I would love to give 4.7 out of 10.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Dil Mera Muft Ka


Song Name: Dil Mera Muft Ka
Film: Agent Vinod
Singer(s): Altamush Faridi, Muazzam, Shabab Sabri, Rizwan, Nandini Shrikar & Shadab Faridi
Music Director: Pritam
Lyricist: Amitabh Bhattacharya
Length: 4:26
Music Label: T-Series



The mujra is back with the Nazakat and Adaein wali item girl, Kareena Kapoor.
The Mujra actually came out from Mughal era, were the dance was performed in Kothas. The exotic dance was best fitted in the bollywood movies like Umrao Jaan and Devdas and recently by Aishwarya Rai Bacchan in the song "Kajrare".

But Bebo failed doing justice with Mujra. Here lies some reason why song fill fail and gets hit.


Failures:

- softness of body is not allowed
- sharpness in steps is not visualized
- wardrobe goes very obsolete and don't suits with ambiances (neither it is exactly designed for Mujra style)
- her partner (in Blue) performing more better than Bebo.
- the expressions of actress is erotic
- the choreography is not up to the mark
(It seems that Kareena did this song against her will or she was shot in her practice)
- When we see the ambiance of song, the traits seems hybrid of Qawaali and Mujra.
- Infact, it strongly proves that the actress can't perform.
- The text which interferes in between the song


Hit:

- The song is good, but lyrics is not that easy.(Like pacchattar and sattatar) 
- The music is too good as off course, it is a Pritam's creation (The source of plagirisation is still unknown)
- After a long, Mujra is back and that too they chose hot girl for performance.