priyodit

Watched this movie yesterday. I had gone with high expectations. It was because from the trailer, I could make out that movie had shoe string budget and black and white, just like Nolan's "Following". The good part of the movie is- it does not let you guess the turns which come at later part of the story but instead, keeps you along with itself all along the journey.

To me, it gave me the same pleasure as if "12 Angry Men" (constrained space) was mixed with "The Perfect Murder" in a Hitchcockian way (where some psychological angle is shown). This movie contrasts with Ram Gopal Varma's "Jungle" which presented the gruesomeness of human nature. Here, the jungle brings out not the aggressive but the manipulative and vulpine nature of people.

The director reminds me of Nagesh Kukunoor's style of film making where the scenes are crisp with realistic expression and skin tones being natural shade.

As a writer, the director did a fabulous work in imagining how each scene would unfold and has kept all the strings tied.

The actual hero of the movie was not only director but also the cameraman who almost always chose the right angle, except for one shot when the camera was too close to the faces. However, since this is a one shot movie, this error can be ignored.

This movie is recommended.

The story is a cliche. A now successful man returns to find that the very family he cared for is now in ruins, and how he saves them from their miseries. Master Bhagwan directed and wrote the film's script himself. It, thus, comes as no surprise that he is the hero of the movie.

However, a short plump hero with expressions looking like a penguin is not your average day to day hero. The expressions of others are good, and the songs are beautiful. The songs however are too many in number. If someone is not speaking anything, they are singing. The songs slow this movie.

This movie would have been a masterpiece if some other hero was chosen wisely. To me this movie seems overrated.