Black Friday

Based on a book written on the 93’ Bombay bomb blasts and directed by Anurag Kashyap, this movie was marred by controversies  before it was finally released in 2007. And after watching this movie, you will be left with just two words for it…..Bloddy Awesome.

Rarely does a movie  that is completely based on true events, entertains you like a thriller. Throwing caution to winds, the director uses backward way of storytelling and starts from the investigations after the blasts have taken place. He opens his cards one by one instead of spoon feeding the audience. Dividing the story in chapters just like the original book had done adds to the excitement. The acting of all the actors (and there are a lot of them) is pitch perfect so much so that you feel they must be actually the people who have been a part of that bomb blast. But not giving a special mention to the person who played the badass tiger memon, would be doing complete injustice to him. Pawan Malhotra, probably the most underrated actor who still hasn’t got the roles (except this one) of which he is capable of. I still wonder why he didn’t get any award  for his exceptional performance in a negative role.  Ditto for kaykay ,another exceptionally gifted actor. But, such are the drearies of life…Hope the next time such an ensemble of actors come together the national awards or atleast our popular bolly awards take notice….

L.S.D (Lets Salute Dibakar)

I had loved Dibakar banarjee’s previous works and was looking forward to his third venture. But when I saw the trailer of Lsd and then later his interview in which he was smoking a cigarette and telling us why he chose to tell this story this time, I was pissed off. It just didn’t make any sense to me why such a talented director even thought of making this kind of a movie. But then, after watching this movie ( I had to go alone to watch it) I felt like giving him a standing ovation. Finally, some Indian director had given us  for what bollywood longed for. A bold movie that actually made sense, was important, had a budget of a single yash raj music video, and was so damn engaging you couldn’t take your eyes off it for even a second. The actors were people whom you see walking around you everyday and watching them act was so much fun. This banerjee guy has come a long way from khosla's ghosla and has given us the blair witch of bollywood.  Cant wait for your next ‘activity’..I know its going to be more Paranormal than b4 ;)