Anil Vyas

#Dhadakthemovie#AViews# How do I review Dhadak? Unbiased based on talent or a biased view based on content? Difficult job. Can Nagraj Manjule ever surpass Sairat? Could Ramesh Sippy ever get over the Sholay hangover? Can Farhan Akhtar make another Dil Chahta hai? Can Mughal e Azam ever be remade? Could Kamal Amrohi do another Pakeezah? Those were cult movies. Movies that were made cos the Helmsman lived it. Sairat happened bcos Nagraj knew the milieu..he placed his script and characters in that milieu and he used a shock technology that worked because of the understanding of that society. Nagraj also used raw and unknown faces...actors who had nothing to do with the papparazi.... So does it work if u try and remake it and do it unabashedly so...cos u even copy the background score and also the songs..in fact 2 of them to be carbon copies.... So how does one review it in an unbiased way? Dhadak dissapoints big way and it dissapoints even more because the Producer as a stand alone director of short stories does a marvel in Lust Stories. Dhadak never raises the bar...never dwells on societal issues..never really spreads its wings...it just collapses..Collapses, maybe under the commercial bollywood pressure...maybe under the pressure to launch star kids..to make them look glam...collapses under the pressure of retelling a proven recipe and a regional mega success. Majorly it fails...because...Sairat was a product of the directors own pathos and an understanding of the ethos which he may have seen first hand..and Dhadak was a product of a Badrnath of a Director and one who decided on the script after zeroing in on the cast. A major major dissapointment...This one is way away from Sairat(Hangover)! Go and watch at your own risk. But trust me....u will still see more of Jhanvi Kapoor and also the Ishaan Khattar in future. Raw talent wasted in an inappropriate content. Luckily Sairat will stay as a cult movie. Thanks to Dhadak which has created more awareness for a regional film and inspire more people to see Sairat!

#Luststories#comingoutofthecloset#AViews Watched "Lust Stories" on Netflix. To start off, would like to state that this compilation of 4 short stories, is less about lust and more about being "just". More of finding equality in an unequal society. A few days back, I could not bring myself to support the usage of abusive language to prove being liberated ( on this page ) and this night I support the same when used in proper context. It is unpretentious and very normal. Proper actressea and the right treatment make a difference here. This is true liberation....Kashyap, Zoya, Dibankar and the surprise Karan Johar convey volumes in a short time. The surpise is Johar....shows what he can do without the baggage of commercialism. Special mention needs to be a made of the " Vibrator" scene...watching it twice within 10 days and that too in Bollywood. But here the scene is constructed, acted and presented marvellously by Johar and the use of the title track of one of his own movie is a master class. Watch it for understanding what true feminism means.

Race 3 tonight. Was it a movie or just an event??? The name was Race. But it was just a crawl..Intolerable is also an understatement....Being a bhai or Being Human. Is this the beginning or is it an end.....Salman rules as no else can...but Race is just an excuse of a movie...No story, no plot, no racy moments...tacky maybe as Daisy(Dizzy) may say in one scene ...But then ..." It is my business and my business is none of your business".....Bhai said it all... Iss baar toh....Eidi dene bhi nahi aayenge...Aa bhi gaye toh aise hi chalta raha toh agli eid par bhai ....aap bhi mubarak nahi...Allah duhai hai....pls do not torture us more.....

Another thanks is duly due to my Biryani and Bharta friend for recommending a gem of a movie. If not for him, I would have never known about this little masterpiece. Fail to understand why Bollywood hides all such treasures. This movie is an experience. And that too through the eyes and the narrative voice of a 11 year old. It does give you hope in our India, specially during such hopeless times. But, then, we do discuss India and do that passionately at times.. Not cos we are taking sides, but we have grown up to understand that "India" stands for it' s diversities, the various hues, the colours, the rituals, the festivals ...all of it that actually make us one and yet that, exactly is dividing us... A Billion Colour Story uses B & W to show more than the colourful Bollywood movies can and does it so beautifully through the innocense of a 11 year old who is the narrator till he is muted, to voice even more loudlh what the story wanted to say, throughout. Beautiful! A must watch!

SANJU 15 mins into and you realise what a master story teller Hirani is. There are Directors and then there are story tellers. I can say that Hrishikesh Mukherjee was the only one, I felt, who fell into the latter categeory and now it is Hirani. A decade and a half and 5 movies, Hirani is the undisputed story teller of all. With Sanju he treads on a dreaded zone- to tell a tale of a living personality who is equally hated as he is loved, who has lived his life on the edge, who time and again has proven his irresponsibility not only towards his family but also his nation ( by his own admissions ). And Rajkumar Hirani comes out unscatched and a winner in the end. To portray a stray character whose life has been on public display all the time was never going to be easy. The film never focusses on Sanju the star, except for 2 and a half scene of his filmy shooting. Hirani picks up just 2 episodes of Sanju's life- the drug phase and the Court trial phase- and uses a fictitious writer, a more reel then real friend and a super dad, to weave a story of human bonds that lasts till the very end to bring back a wayward and irresponsible "human" Sanju, to a responsible and better person. Sanju also does not delve into the many relations that the real one had in his life. His present wife is the one who is shown as a pillar of strength all throughout. The fisrt half is a roller coaster and typical Hirani- light and frothy while still sending you a message. The second half dips and naturally so, because a lot of things need to go unsaid as it involves controversial people and legal issues. That does dilute the post interval movie a bit. Some scenes even appear phoney and cliched. Now to the ultimate final word- the actors. In a biopic the pressure of playing real life characters can sometimes really weigh an actor down.Vicky Kaushal , luckily, away from such pressures astounds you and leaves you spell bound with a performance that grips you and stays with you till the end. A special mention of his scenes with Paresh Rawal. Vicky Kaushal really scores. Paresh Rawal, on the other hand dissapoints. Not because he is a bad actor, but because Sunil Dutt was such a larger then life figure and so multi faceted and with a voice so unique and so powerful. It was a tough job anyways for any actor, but even Rawal's "Puttar" (the diction) appears misplaced and forced. However, if you can really overlook any flaws in the movie, it is mainly due to the lead actor. Ranbir Kapoor gets into the skin and never misses a note as he plays the many emotions and mannerisms and the gait that at some point of time you even forget that it is an actor playing another actor. He becomes Sanju from scene zero and staysthat till the end. The Kapoor scion proves that in the present gen he is one of his kind. Effortlessly brilliant. As a bollywood buff, one song sequence stays with me- A reel Nargis( strikingly similar in the particular song) and a RK grandson. In nether world , both the legendary actors must be all smiles. Ironic and Iconic for me. Sanju is a must watch for multiple reasons. Just go for it this week end.

Shubh Mangala Zyada Savdhan Welcome to the new age Popcorn cinema!! Yes... and I challenge you to like this without a bucket of popcorn or the 500 bucks bucket seat... Ayushman Khurana is the master of this new age cinema... he picks up topics that are spoken in hushed tones in our society and makes them come out bold and into the open... but “seriously” does nothing at all. Sometimes it may have worked and most of the times, off late, it’s becoming cliche and too whatsappy...for me definitely. AK you need to rest now.. take a break and come back refreshed.. from being a “donor” to kissing a man.. you have done it all.. must be tired now!!😊. Homosexuality is a serious topic and if you want to have a serious watch.....watch Onir’s cinema. SMZS is just like any Bollywood movie that makes fun of it and nothing more... in the garb of acceptance. At times it is not palatable too.. special mention of the twisting of jack and jill ... to .. jack and Johny.. by our lead actor.. in front of a young kid...not to mention the double entendres that keep coming and I did not understand the context, in the mention of...” tu amitabh bachan nahi ban payega....” at regular intervals and the Black Gobi parallel track that runs throughout... symbolism lost to me. One thing that needs a very special mention, is the cast and this time I exclude AK. Each and everyone gives a highly dedicated performance... in no special order- Jiendra Kumar, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Singh, Manu Rishi, Maanvi Gagroo, Sunita Rajwar and to top that Bhumi Pednekar in small and sweet Cameo. They all perform as if they are fighting for a cause ... Hail them! I hope you get the pun! Watch Good Newz again buds!