After many years I watched a movie in my hometown (Krishnagiri). I watched it in a theater named Apsara, which was 70 - 80% full, to note here- being a small town this movie is released in two theaters. I came to know it is doing a decent turn-out in both.
Most people who are reading this might have seen this film. So without much into reviewing the story let me take you right away to “my” best and not-so-best scenes\shots\sequences in this film.
The movie title opens from Right to Left (This is how Arabic and Urdu is written).
** SPOILERS AHEAD. **
Dialogues, I liked it most, very apt to the scenes, funny-witty when required and serious-note when needed.
Few samples-
Nirupama to the doctor ( psychiatrist I guess ) referring to her relationship with Viswanath ( Kamal )- I told him I can’t read ( study ) while sleeping.
Shekar Kapoor referring to Osama’ death to Pooja: - If you are a kin of the Arakan you will know the pain of losing. ( If you had watched Hey Ram, the same kind of dialogue is used ).
First (Only) Full Fight-
The scene when Viswanath transforms- The fight concludes in a flash, just few seconds, viewers (me) are just amazed of what happen! (I thought “can we see it again”). Then the camera shows "the ever husband cursing wife", she is dumbstruck ( as we ) and she tries to rewind of what happened now in her mind, then the same fight goes into slow-mo , and once done the camera again gets back to her in close-up, now she realizes what has happened, as we do gasp.
Swing Scene (Unjal)-
Omar introduces his son (small kid, could be 10 years old) and another boy (a suicide bomber, ~15 year old) to Wisam. In the next scene, Wisam will try to put the 10 year old into swing ( unjjal ), not interested by this the boy will say “I am not a kid” and he leaves, now the ~15 years old suicide bomber will sit on the swing and will gesture Wisam to push it. I found this scene interesting and well written, it is like a small poem, let me know what you got from this scene.
There are much more bests, but let stop here and go to not-so-best of mine.
It is definitely a spy-thriller, but we are blind folded for almost over the half of the movie and we are not sure what the hero is targeting at. (Eventually they had set a target for part II, face-off between Wisam and Omar).
Dialogue delivery, especially Omar (Rahul Bose). I thought if he would have talked in normal way it would have been good.
Most of the time its multi lingual, so they can put the sub titles bigger, with fonts having bordered in black or they can put the subtitles near the character itself.
When they say Americans troops won't kill women and children, I can take this as a POV of the character, but in reality with the information we get from the media innocent women and children had lost lives in the Iraq and Afgan war, especially the drone-attacks.
What is your best\bad scene in this film ?
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I thought the swing scene was really deep and brilliantly shown. The fact that omar's son says he's not a child( he also says earlier that he wants to become a doctor) shows that he's determined and focussed at such a young age. But when the other jihadi comes and wants to be pushed in the swing by kamal, it shows that he is still just a child at heart and that he has been brainwashed into the path of terrorism. He then becomes a human bomb at dies in front of the american nato base. then the swing scene is shown again.
ReplyDeleteTrue brilliance from kamal
@Anonymous.. Thanks for the comment
DeleteYes, that was a good scene and that was what I thought too.
//it shows that he is still just a child at heart and that he has been brainwashed into the path of terrorism.//
DeleteI saw it in the other way. The Jhihadi, knowing he is going to die soon, wanted to enjoy these tiny little things. Like the last wish before a death penalty is executed.
As soon as, he gets on the Oonjal, when it swings, he felt the wind so nice and enjoys it for the last time.
The next day, he saw another kid using the same Oonjal (meaning, another Jhihadi).
@Seenu
DeleteThanks for stopping by and for ur comment.
I felt the jhihadi was still a kid, didn't think that it would be his last wish, but it can be interpreted as you said too.
Hi Ravi -
ReplyDeleteI whole scene is brilliantly captured and bit of underlined emotion was showcased here. The boy who is aware of his end which is going to be in days, wants to enjoy each and every moment of his life to full.
-ET-
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ReplyDeleteOh when ET became Teddy. ?