the film review thread!
this is a movie review thread, nightflier's starting to promote the film critic (:P) in her (more appropriately the film buff, ardent fan and who can watch anything, which will b proved in this thread :D)
so today's review is about a film called 'Laga Chunari mein Daag' (!!@@$**#!!)
lets start with some trivia......
the film's director is a noted ad film maker, who has recently won some award for aaj tak's campaign, who has shot some fabulous music videos (apparently, he shoots all the songs for Euphoria tha band) whose directorial debut Parineeta, highly appreciated by critics (i was not one then :D) won him a national award and blah blah blah..... stories can be written on how fabulous an add maker he is, or how some of his videos have moved me, or how Parineeta promised a director with his senses in the right place!!!
the synopsis in short: a small family in a small Indian town is in a financially crunchy situation, with meagre sources of income..the elder daughter takes the responsibility of leading them thro these tough times, as a son would have...goes to mumbai..her too-little-to-get-her-a-job educational qualifications land her up in a situation where she has to resort to the quick ways of money making (Smart people will understand the quicker ways :D and btw is the story writer trying to emphasize that Ajukeshan is still overly rated in the society and not human qualities!! this leaves me utterly confused :-/)..anyways all's well for some time..money is coming in..now a small twist..the younger daughter of the family (she has finished her MBA in the mean time) moves to mumbai..so the rest of the movie ends up in convincing everyone that how the elder daughter is a virtuous,little angel, who went haywire just for the sake of her family...heppy heppy ending for a not so heppy family :)
Anyways, now all said and done, mr. director disappoints big time with Laga! where is the script dude? my only question to the wise man!! Just a potentially great cast does not do wonders to a movie, the story needs to be told effectively, if u want to make ur film a success! The protagonists character is so drab that u end up feeling nothing for her.. the story moves forward in such a cliche way that, u feel like, ur watching a movie u thought we all movie lovers were done with! some scenes are very stupidly melodramatic...the ganges, banaras ke ghaat dont make u wonder at the simplicity of small Indian towns...simply because they look so repetitious (apparently, Sarkaar has done a song on same locations with a famous music band!)
the only high of the movie is konkona, who i first thought was wasted, but this female has an incorrigible quality of leaving the audience awestruck with her smooth, easygoing performance!!! Thumbs up to u girl! Jaya Bachachan suits the role to the hilt..no one could have done it better.. Lastly dear Rani feel sorry for this fact that, the most important character of the movie was so lifeless..better luck next time.. all the guys are just fillers, this being a story of the journey of a woman!
The music s just average, though talented Mr. moitra has tried to make it colorful with some folk touch...
All in all, a disappointment to the average filmy buff and a huge disappointment to the class movie goers!!
Happy viewing till we meet again!! :)
Cheers.....