Release date - 11’th Jan 2013
One Word which describes the film – Eccentric
Best Dialogue –
Music – Vishal Bhardwaj
Budget -40 crore
The first big budget film of the year is a dark comedy which focuses on the the farmers of the country who are under big debts and the industrialists who with the help of corrupt politicians want to take the poor farmers ' lands to make Special Economic Zones.
The film starts with a shot of a stretch limousine crashing into a bar in the middle of a wheat field with Mr Mandola saying that "Gulabo andar , Hariya bahar " . It's only after sometime that we come to know that Gulabo is the name of the local whiskey brand which transforms Mr Mandola , an ambitious ,insatiably greedy industrialist with capitalist ambitions into a generous socialist Hariya who provokes the villagers to take a morcha against himself.
After that the film goes on till interval in a confusing way with lots of characters who are not given any proper introduction .
There is Mandola's servant Matru who has studied Law in the city & wishes to lead a movement one day. Imran Khan has shed his lover boy image and has put on the rustic look . I think this is Imran's best performance till date. He has put on the perfect Haryanvi accent and body language and is comfortable in acting with a veteran actor like Pankaj Kapoor.
There is Mandola's Oxford retrurn daughter who in Matru's words has a Meena Kumari complex .Anushka Sharma is clearly still in the Jab tak hai jaan phase as she roams around in the big haveli and village in micro shorts which totally seem very out of place in the Haryanvi set up.
Then come the corrupt minister, Chaudhari Devi (played by Shabana Azmi) who thinks that " jab hamari pragati hogi tabhi to desh ki unnati hogi" and her dim-wit son Baadal (played by Arya Babbar) .
We can't control our laughs when she compares her son with sons of other politicians "Yahi farak hai tum mein aur Rahul, Sachin aur Jyotiraditya mein!"
Badal and his friends exchange lame Knock-Knock jokes which I think is a dig at the current generation.
Last but not the least there are the numerous villagers ,and the only thing which made the kids smile 'the gulabi bhains '.
After a dragging first half the film catches speed in the second half but most of the audience was so bored that they didn't pay much attention to the subtle humor or realistic story.
In a line the film has a very good message , though we hope the director had scripted it in a better way .
Must watch for Pankaj Kapur fans .Can be seen in theaters .
Rank- 5 (Films I have seen in 2013 )
Wish you reviewed it before i spent my time & money on it... lolz.. Aptly said.. the only paisa wasool thing in the movie is Imran Khan's Adapation...
ReplyDeleteThe Picture was a huge let down, especially when it comes from the maker of Maqbool and Omkara. His last two films were also weird like 7 Khoon Maaf and Kaminey , so this is the 3rd of the list of crap movies
ReplyDeleteAfter the movie was made, edited and shown to the director himself and to the exhibitors and distributors, all had their mouth wide open with a big face palm as what were the actors saying was difficult to understand due to the language used and also most of the time Pankaj K was drunk(actually) so what was he saying except the word Bhencho Bhencho, was all garbled, so bingo they put in English sub-titles, so you read what was in sub-totles or see the movie - multi tasking, maybe he was so over confident of this Gulaboo Shit that it was going to Oscars that he put in the sub-titles in English
You,Riya must make it a point to see the movie on Friday first day first show and avoid the mental torture for us, you have to protect the common man , as your review comes by Sunday or Monday, and by then the temptation to see before is already done. so you promise today, that from every Friday, as a true critic , you will see the movie first day first show basis for common man
As you said, Anushka dress code was weird, where were the Khapps and no outrage by them
The only saving grace is Pankaj K - superb acting by him
Super let down movie and the collections are showing, poor collections and is a rubbish movie for sure
I am sure Vishal must be on poor quality weed, to make such crap movie and the dark comedy with the difficult language went a bouncer over public
Just like the name of the movie, the picture itself was very confusing and full of Gulaboo Shit (Dung )
The film is able to create the curious haunting after memories, which vishal does in all his films. The complicated confusing layout is the narrative style which differntiates a normal straight line storyteller from an ingenious one. Overall i liked watching the movie, with you .
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