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Terence Winters. Martin Scorsese. Leonardo Di Caprio.

The trio made pretty much of what The Wolf of Wall Street is all about. Belfort penned it, Terence adopted, Scorsese gave his splendid vision to the book and well all of it and everything else wouldn't make a crumb of a difference, had it not been DiCaprio to act with such an ease yet be marvelous at it. His acting and presence on celluloid took it to an entire different level altogether.

The movie is about a twisted robin hood, a tale which explores a swindled slice of life, its about a penny stockbroker who raised from nowhere and became an iconic figure for those who believed in him and themselves. He made a conglomerate where no one had a past from the same industry but yet were unanimous on the same platform. But as its said that when everything falls your way..you are in the wrong lane, and as every success has the failure standing at the door waiting for that one moment where you leave the doors open, Jordan Belfort was no exception. He falls, and falls hard.. so much so that he has to serve 36 months in prison..and with that, everything changes. Though I believe that this dwindle of Jordan Belfort could have been at least postponed (if not stopped), had he not been a doctrinaire which unfortunately he was that eventually led him to his own fall.

The story covers almost all the aspects of the book (as I read it before going for the movie), and is well driven by Terence Winters (screenplay) as the length could have been a drawback but well, it just comes at your face the very minute and finds a place in your bones as the time passes by. Martin Scorsese provides humongous efforts to keep the plot alive and is outstandingly successful in doing so, along with which, you can always see his trademarks in the movie like the lead facing internal and personal problems (mostly marital concerns).

I've always been a Scorsese fan, this was indeed not Scorsese cinema, nor was Shutter Island but well..as long as you get the dose and you like it..that's what really matters at the end of the day. And I totally enjoyed it as I'm myself a sales person and all my life, I've believed that sales is all about conversation and convincing, but this flick taught me an echt definition of sales. All hails to the trio. And I hope it bags at least 3 Oscars out of its 5 nominations this year.

I'd rate this astonishing comic sensation of the year as 9/10.

The confusing part is to call it a good or bad movie which made me confuse to write a confused review.

Ughh...

Well let's see..

Direction -- Perfect ; Production Value -- Astonishing ; Editing -- Great ; Cinematography -- Fantabulous ; Art Direction -- Magnificent ; Concept -- Brilliant ; Story -- Nice * ; Screenplay -- God knows what was it like. It was complicated to judge whether it was pacey and crisp, or sluggish, dragging to nowhere and repetitive. ; Performances -- Amazing (Deepika did a great job) ; Music -- Okay.

So... what happened in the movie was that everything was near to equilibrium but couldn't achieve what it would have otherwise.

A good adaptation from Romeo & Juliet blended with commix of Indian masala and a sensible approach but with the ongoing screenplay, at times film went stupid, blunt stupid. The characters became dumb and chips fell in the wrong lane. It felt like everything that was bounded together to make it an excellent piece of cinema went lost somewhere which eventually wasted a beautiful love- saga into an average-to-good romantic-drama flick.

It deserves a watch for sure, but only to give you disappointment later on because everything in the movie will set your expectations on cloud 9 but it will keep on crashing those expectations at spaces.

I'd rate this lost epic as 6/10.

And I still hope someone could have read the script again before executing it so that to make those minute changes which would have given success to such a hard effort by everyone on-and-off the camera in putting up a commendable canvas of art.