Bombay Talkies

Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda,Saqib Saleem, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,Naman Jain,Khushi Dubey and Vineet Kumar Singh
Director: Karan Johar, Dibakar Bannerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap
Genre: Drama

 

Celebration of Bollywood and Hindi Cinema, four different stories...Not all of them worth. But the whole movie is very much watchable

 

Pluses:

• Every story more or less is attached to the cinema except for the one by Karan Johar. Its amazing to see how does cinema really influence people from different backgrounds in interesting ways
• The movie is a lot experimental venture by four big directors of the industry. Watch it for the potentials of each one of them
• Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleem did great jobs and were awesome to their director Karan Johar. Witness the first on screen smooch between men, a bold step by the male leads. Saqib Saleem has come a long way clearly, proves the industry can run without hero looking materials as well
• Naman Jain and Khushi Dubey are clearly Zoya Akhtar's babies. She knows how to bring out the best of the performances and how to present stories. I was moved by the portayal of the relationship terms shared between the siblings. The support to each other was explicitly wonderful. Watch it for the bro-sis duo
• Vineet Kumar Singh being a small time actor gave his best job in the last story by Anurag Kashyap. You may start running out of patience as the story keeps moving, but the end reaps it all. Strategically placed at the end of all the stories, ensures you walk out smiling of the theater. Salaam to Anurag Kashyap and to Hindi Cinema :)

 

Lukewarm:

 

Nawazuddin Siddiqui rather disappointed us. He could have done a lot more. The notion behind this particular stint by Dibakar Bannerjee is almost unclear and left to individual interpretation. If i have to go by my sensibility, all i understand is he tried to portray the leads inclination towards theater than on business, and walking down the lane of acting gives him that peace of mind and eyeful sleep in the nights. Could have been made much better!

 

Minuses:

• For the most of the stories, it leaves you gazing at the sudden end. Stories conclude abruptly feeling incomplete. And this feels the most in Karan Johar's story. Its never clear what happens to Saqib Saleem by the end of it
• The entire feel of the movie comes out to be very average. Somewhere something wasnt right. May be the promotion or the marketting. It never does set the right expectations

 

 

 

 

 

My Rating: 3/5