Barah Aana is 97 minutes of vivid imagination drawn on the screen. In the film, Mumbai has again been portrayed as city of dreams clustering people with different temperaments and attitudes, but holding a thing in common "dreaming and drawing livelihood". It is a manifestation of stumbled feet of characters and commutation of simplicity and innocence into maelstrom of shrewdness.
Raj Kumar Gupta, director of a brilliant movie "Aamir", exhibited his talent again with this well scripted movie running around the three characters and so called trivials incidents which were significant enough to cause a change in their thought process.
Barah Aana can be considered as a comical drama featuring 3 disparate friends from North India in Mumbai, a quiescent driver Shukla (Naseeruddin Shah), a mischievous watchman for a society complex, Yadav (Vijay Raaz) and a winsome waiter Aman (Arjun Mathur). With dreams in their eyes, they are content with their hand to mouth lifestyle but certain provoking moments instigates them to get drawn towards the direction, which is certainly not a path of good deeds. The soul-stirring dialogues in a scene by Vijay Raj where he shows his agony of not being able to send money to his family because of deprivation of any help from his working place are able to catch whole attention. His tingling analogies for the peerless difference of living standard among people in our society can freeze your other thoughts for a bit in that particular moment. In nut-shell, He proved himself to be the best.
Naseerudin shah as a mute driver played extremely well and showed that he is someone in bollywood with non-redundancy. His well expressed exacerbation with suppressed sigh and pain over the every day humiliation and offence by nagging and nasty wife of his so called master (Benjamin Gilani) which made him to step into darker side of life is really mind blowing performance. The plot of this film, where Naseer is a living man but officially considered dead in records reflects the on-going faults in current bureaucracy.
Arjun Mathur as Aman has again proved that he is obviously a material to be watched on big screen again and again. Finely executed performance as an innocent guy who dreams of getting married to an Italian, having fallen in love and later gets shattered when he realizes that he has been used as trash bag is certainly worth admiration, although infront of Naseer and Vijay Raj, he got veiled a bit. Tannistha Chatterjie as the flamboyant Rani, shocks you after her role in ‘Brick lane’.
No song, in the movie was a good attempt to intertwine all the incidents without any loose ends and breaks. Well sometimes, this movie seems to be a bit narrative and dragging, but overall, a short story with emotional outbursts but in a composed way.
Certainly not a "Happy go lucky" kind of entertainer…but certainly a movie to be watched which can put your thoughts on spins.
Rating – 65/100
Posted by Shilpee Singh for VirtualChai.com on Apr 23rd, 2009
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Delhi 6
Delhi 6, also can be called as A Tribute to Kaala Bandar….a movie which shows the havoc of kaala Bandar, a monkeyman and this havoc can ignite hindu-muslim riot. Although Rakyesh Mehra attempted to make it look much more message conveying like Rang de Basanti, but at the end it proves to be a bit confusing and throwing public off the scent.
But still, these shortcomings don’t let u down, because of the novel and well woven nexus of sequences and characters in the story. In first half, the movie totally revolves around the brightest part of the chocked, dingy yet invigorating gullies of delhi, the sweeping rickshaws, jalebi ki dukan, which is run by a muslim who is devotee of allah as well as bajrangbali and a place where harmony exists between 2 different communities.
Delhi 6 starts with the arrival of a USA born and brought up NRI Roshan Mehra (Abhishek Bachchan) with his ill Dadi (Waheeda Rehman) who wants to spend her rest of the life back home, in the surrounding of her own people. Roshan acquaintance with India started with the news floating in the air whispering the name of ‘’the Kaala Bandar’’, a mysterious monkeyman that attacks and kills people in the dark of night. His initial phases and reaction of grins on this media stunts are accompanied further by surprises which dwindles him away from staying there. His encounters with some indigestible rituals , some freaking rules and some strange people, exemplified by traffic jam over a ‘’Gau Maata’’ giving birth to Bachda, a party leader who pops up and talks the hind leg off a donkey in Ramleela show, jalebi sessions at roadside, imrati (divya dutta ) being considered untouchable , a ruthless cop (vijay raj), who has penchant for smacking, the opportunistic Lala ( Prem Chopra ) with one foot in grave, but feels esteemed for having much more younger bride leaves him ponder. But in course of time, destiny defines a way for his love towards Bittu (Sonam Kapoor), a daughter of a whimsical and conservative person, who dreams about emerging as next Indian idol. In 2nd half of the story he juggles with problems, which pushed him in chaotic situation and faux pas.
The effort of installing metamorphic use of Ramleela to synchronize with the story is an excellent effort done by Mehra. There’s an excellent shot of an imagination in ‘Dil Gira Dafatan’ song, depicting overlay of two different worlds of Delhi 6 and New York at Times Square. But his idea of frivolous terror sparkling communal hatred and prolonged and preachy climax make you feel leave your seat once in a while.
Overall, direction is fine with some sequences, ornamentally crafted and intertwined. Cinematography by Binod Pradhan is superb and A R Rahman again opens up his music box with glittering gems. The troop of good actors who starts appearing in the beginning one by one could put the good gloss over the tattered part of this 3 hrs movie. But too much hodge-podge and lengthy dialogues at the end pulls it down. Abhishek Bachchan looks casual at some places but delivers good facial expressions and reactions, although in few scenes he seems to overact. Sonam Kapoor is mesmerizing but she needs to grow up more as far as acting is concerned. Divya Dutta as imarti proves herself with her outstanding performance. Other supporting cast, Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor, Pawan Malhotra, Vijay Raaz, Waheeda Rahman (an image of grace), Supriya Pathak, Deepak Dobriyal, Prem Chopra, Atul Kulkarni is soul and main asset of this movie.
Despite of few flaws, it’s a movie to be watched. Good entertainment with some flavors of emotions and diversity of topics
Rating: 60/100
By Shilpee Singh for VirtualChai.com on Feb 25th, 2009
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But still, these shortcomings don’t let u down, because of the novel and well woven nexus of sequences and characters in the story. In first half, the movie totally revolves around the brightest part of the chocked, dingy yet invigorating gullies of delhi, the sweeping rickshaws, jalebi ki dukan, which is run by a muslim who is devotee of allah as well as bajrangbali and a place where harmony exists between 2 different communities.
Delhi 6 starts with the arrival of a USA born and brought up NRI Roshan Mehra (Abhishek Bachchan) with his ill Dadi (Waheeda Rehman) who wants to spend her rest of the life back home, in the surrounding of her own people. Roshan acquaintance with India started with the news floating in the air whispering the name of ‘’the Kaala Bandar’’, a mysterious monkeyman that attacks and kills people in the dark of night. His initial phases and reaction of grins on this media stunts are accompanied further by surprises which dwindles him away from staying there. His encounters with some indigestible rituals , some freaking rules and some strange people, exemplified by traffic jam over a ‘’Gau Maata’’ giving birth to Bachda, a party leader who pops up and talks the hind leg off a donkey in Ramleela show, jalebi sessions at roadside, imrati (divya dutta ) being considered untouchable , a ruthless cop (vijay raj), who has penchant for smacking, the opportunistic Lala ( Prem Chopra ) with one foot in grave, but feels esteemed for having much more younger bride leaves him ponder. But in course of time, destiny defines a way for his love towards Bittu (Sonam Kapoor), a daughter of a whimsical and conservative person, who dreams about emerging as next Indian idol. In 2nd half of the story he juggles with problems, which pushed him in chaotic situation and faux pas.
The effort of installing metamorphic use of Ramleela to synchronize with the story is an excellent effort done by Mehra. There’s an excellent shot of an imagination in ‘Dil Gira Dafatan’ song, depicting overlay of two different worlds of Delhi 6 and New York at Times Square. But his idea of frivolous terror sparkling communal hatred and prolonged and preachy climax make you feel leave your seat once in a while.
Overall, direction is fine with some sequences, ornamentally crafted and intertwined. Cinematography by Binod Pradhan is superb and A R Rahman again opens up his music box with glittering gems. The troop of good actors who starts appearing in the beginning one by one could put the good gloss over the tattered part of this 3 hrs movie. But too much hodge-podge and lengthy dialogues at the end pulls it down. Abhishek Bachchan looks casual at some places but delivers good facial expressions and reactions, although in few scenes he seems to overact. Sonam Kapoor is mesmerizing but she needs to grow up more as far as acting is concerned. Divya Dutta as imarti proves herself with her outstanding performance. Other supporting cast, Om Puri, Rishi Kapoor, Pawan Malhotra, Vijay Raaz, Waheeda Rahman (an image of grace), Supriya Pathak, Deepak Dobriyal, Prem Chopra, Atul Kulkarni is soul and main asset of this movie.
Despite of few flaws, it’s a movie to be watched. Good entertainment with some flavors of emotions and diversity of topics
Rating: 60/100
By Shilpee Singh for VirtualChai.com on Feb 25th, 2009
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