Thursday, February 26, 2009

Best ever attyachar..


DevD was a treat for eyes and ear. Amazingly fresh and original fusion music and beautiful frames with artistic compositions one feel like taking big images of each frame and make mood-board in your room typically for booze-party or a bunch of wallpaper slideshow. Remember the close-ups of the 3 faces of the pub-dancers or the wedding singers or the frames in the sugar factory. It is well thought and well executed to the whole visual rhythm of the movie.
Songs and lyrics come and haunt me much later once you go home and listen to music. I mean what Gulzar started with “personal se sawaal...” here it is taken to next level...”bol bol why you ditch me ....”. The master – piece what I feel is not the much hyped ‘emotional attyachar” or instant catchy “nayan tarase:... but “Yehi meri zindagi... “
Abhay is good.. but he is being silent observer of the script and the proceedings and thats what the best part of actor in him. He hardly tries too hard to act. That makes it natural in the bollywood crowd of ham actors. I watched coupla of his movies, ‘Manorama 6 ft’ ... ‘Honeymoon travels’ and now I can blindly go if he is in there. That’s a hell of a feat in recent times where movie start with promise one has to endure through second half.

Paro’s character does change in the course of a movie making one feel is it intentional or accidental. This is felt throughout the movie. Earlier attempts on Devdas are like Chinese riverside paintings of extreme simplistic take on life and uni-dimensional characterisation that is typical of bollywood extravaganzas.

Anurag Kashyap looks like enjoys strong and intense realistic way of telling a story. He is a urban ‘Yo’ version of vishal bhardwaj the master story-teller. Nothing is spared and nowhere realism is over-emphasised or goes overboard as in some of the recent RGV’s flicks. Nobody could portray sexuality as it is done it in here, and it is definitely not a rip-off of west or out-of-place like the one in ‘Dil kabaddi’ where it feels far-fetched and too western.

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