Mumbai meri Jaan and Aamir - we have recently had two Bollywood movies dealing with the subject of Terrorism. Mumbai meri Jaan depicts the after effects of a terror incident. Its about real life characters absorbing the shock of bomb blasts and then recovering. The journey of their losses and more importantly - their gains. Aamir is a fiction about a man who is stuck in the mayhem of the terrorists. An idealist one - however, with a stodgy end.
A Wednesday is, more than anything, a suprise for all the cinema lovers in India. The movie revolves around the similar subject but still it's greatly removed from the latter two movies.
The attempt of a synopsis of this movie might give a lot away. Even the narrator, retiring commissioner of Police Mr Prakash Rathore (Anupam Kher) stays away, very smartly, from telling you the end.
The story revolves around a fateful Wednesday between 1 to 6 pm, when a man, Naseeruddin Shah (at his intimidating best), calls up the commissioner and tells him that he has planted bombs in the different parts of the city. The only way to defuse the bombs is to follow the man's instructions.
And I am not telling you any further about the story................
A man can accomplish only what he believes in - Faith. A very powerful thing. The movie depicts it very effectively. An ordinary man with access to technology can accomplish greater tasks than the entire system.
A Wednesday is the greatest movie for last decade - in content and the end result.
Many intellectuals have commented that a movie is a product of multiple material & everybody involved with it - I disagree, at least for this one. Naseeruddin Shah is undoubtedly one of the finest actors of all time for Hindi Cinema and the spine for this movie. His presence and dialogue delivery made this movie what it is. Skill of sinking into a role is so extreme with him that one forgets the name of the actor while watching the movie. Most of the other actors are too busy doing their dance & fight sequence to remember the part of understanding the character.
Well, Mr Shah is not amongst them. The Actor literally lives the role.
So does Anupam Kher. The intensity with which he played the Commissioner of Police made me want to give the position for real to him. All of us will have a better sleep at night when we know somebody like him has his eyes on things.
Jimmi Shergil, playing Arif Khan, took director's one word seriously - ACTION.
Neeraj Pandey couldn't have had a better debut as writer - director, qualitatively at least.
This movie compells you to be absolutely quite even after extremely superb dialogues - as they don't stop coming and you won't like to miss. And it will surely make you think - think that this is exactly what is required.
And that is the scariest thought................................................................
A Wednesday is, more than anything, a suprise for all the cinema lovers in India. The movie revolves around the similar subject but still it's greatly removed from the latter two movies.
The attempt of a synopsis of this movie might give a lot away. Even the narrator, retiring commissioner of Police Mr Prakash Rathore (Anupam Kher) stays away, very smartly, from telling you the end.
The story revolves around a fateful Wednesday between 1 to 6 pm, when a man, Naseeruddin Shah (at his intimidating best), calls up the commissioner and tells him that he has planted bombs in the different parts of the city. The only way to defuse the bombs is to follow the man's instructions.
And I am not telling you any further about the story................
A man can accomplish only what he believes in - Faith. A very powerful thing. The movie depicts it very effectively. An ordinary man with access to technology can accomplish greater tasks than the entire system.
A Wednesday is the greatest movie for last decade - in content and the end result.
Many intellectuals have commented that a movie is a product of multiple material & everybody involved with it - I disagree, at least for this one. Naseeruddin Shah is undoubtedly one of the finest actors of all time for Hindi Cinema and the spine for this movie. His presence and dialogue delivery made this movie what it is. Skill of sinking into a role is so extreme with him that one forgets the name of the actor while watching the movie. Most of the other actors are too busy doing their dance & fight sequence to remember the part of understanding the character.
Well, Mr Shah is not amongst them. The Actor literally lives the role.
So does Anupam Kher. The intensity with which he played the Commissioner of Police made me want to give the position for real to him. All of us will have a better sleep at night when we know somebody like him has his eyes on things.
Jimmi Shergil, playing Arif Khan, took director's one word seriously - ACTION.
Neeraj Pandey couldn't have had a better debut as writer - director, qualitatively at least.
This movie compells you to be absolutely quite even after extremely superb dialogues - as they don't stop coming and you won't like to miss. And it will surely make you think - think that this is exactly what is required.
And that is the scariest thought................................................................
good one dude... keep it up..
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