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Return of Hanuman (2007)
Bajrang Dude....
I recently discovered "Returns of Hanuman". Now I really regret that why didn't I watch it on big screen. And thats the reason that ROH didn't do well on box office cos we all missed it on silver screen. I am very much sure that ROH would be discovered by larger population in near future (and its becoming a trend with all Anurag Kashyap' movies).
ROH is not a master piece but I will say it is a first brick in the wall. I hope this would inspire many others and soon we will watch our own high budget animation movie. Actually I got scared after watching Koi Mil Gaya, Krish etc. cos it was starting a wrong trend. But ROH breaks that notion and promises a bright future of intelligent Animation/SciFi movies.
Though ROH is a sheer mimic show of bollywood, mythology, politics etc but still I found it fresh and creative. Movie has got nothing but a mind blowing pace. Script of ROH takes lots of pressure from other departments because of budget constraints and Anurag smartly handled it.
Thanks Anurag!! Keep it up!!
Parineeta (2005)
Its not about Calcutta... But why its not?
1/ A question to the the film-maker: Why did he shift from 1920's to 1960's? Poor adaptation and this shift, drastically weaken the actual essence of the real novel.
The Saratchandra Chatterjee's original not only talks about the a week man's ego,his hate-love story etc. But on sub-layers its very much contemporary and talks about crisis in Calcutta at that time. But there is very less space for the similar interpretation in the Vinod Chopra's Parineeta. I was very happy to hear opening lines about Calcutta in the movie, but the way movie went on blindly under the usual pressure of showing 5-6 songs , melodramatic presentation, narrow indoor shots
disappointed me and didn't give any space to the actual idea of the Novel. And at the end after a long dramatic climax, movie smartly tried to end up by saying "its now happy Calcutta" (sorry but "sandwich theory" didn't work here).
2/ On surface level, movie has got enough tension to hold the audience for 2.5 hours with beautiful aesthetics, soothing music(though I was surprised to hear 1942-A love story's tunes at the background). Congratulations to "Vidya Balan", its very rare that people take new comers seriously. Sanjay/Saif did a decent job. And few exteriors shots in the movie are amazing.
3/ After watching Black, Parineeta . we can say that at least the doors have been opened for good-creative-intelligent work in Indian mainstream cinema. But regarding Indian period Films(except few) ,I must say that we still lack at various levels. But I am optimistic, aren't you?