Varun Varun

movie starts in a tricky way, you get entangled in different stories running simultaneously but at the end you understand what he intends to convey and enjoy it thoroughly. It took me a while to understand what's happening, as you expect from Basu's writing and narration, but once you're out of this confusion, you start enjoying the performances of a brilliant cast. I can't point out even a single actor who hasn't justified his/her character. Whether it's an emotional lover, or overly dramatic police officer, or a way intelligent 6-year young girl- everyone has done a fantastic job. You get engrossed in the stories of each & every person and start living it with them. You feel bad for Rajkumar Rao when he keeps making a fool of himself, want to cry along with Abhishek Bachchan when he sees his daughter, keep loving & hating Pankaj Tripathi depending on the hat he's wearing at that time- of gangster or lover, and keep wondering about Basu's character till the end. The only problem with the movie is that you expect an unconventional ending to such story while all you get is a cliched typical bollywood ending- a girl leaves the guy she is supposed to get married for the one she loves, a married woman kills her husband and comes back to the guy who has loved her all his life, the gangster lives even after being hit by vehicles infinite times, being thrown in the river, being hit by bullets and what not.. and he gets the girl also. It appeared that he was born with a Sanjeevani booti or is blessed by Yamraj himself. Basu kept reiterating that ludois life and life is ludo and yes, that's what we expect. In reality, you necessarily don't have a happy ending but here all the stories had one. And this is where you feel the pinch. My rating- 3.5 stars for all the performances and 0.5 star for Rajkumar Rao's cute character who seems so believable.