Gulaal(2009)
Gulaal(2009)
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This is the film set in local political plot. The movie starts with a Rajput corporation achieving power and the story showcases rivalry among the two gangs in Rajasthan. In all, it is all about the pursuit of power, injustice, chase for legitimacy and hypocrisy of the strong.
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Kings are left to serve coffee to the foreigners" a dialogue from the movie, made me instantly related to it. Cause recently I had been there, before 10 days, in Rajasthan, where this thing has happened. I have seen angst on their faces, how they must be feeling, people are roaming in their palaces, houses which are now museums or Hotels. And this is the storyline of Gulaal. Another installment of dark movie by the master of the genre: Anurag Kashyap. I absolutely have started loving his work, that now I can easily put him on top list of my fav directors. Gulaal, is so much difficult movie. Difficult to understand, difficult to instantly accept or to relate even. And that's the way Anurag is tend to make his movie. And that's why I always liked his movies. He carries such a brilliant star cast in this, all little known faces but all Fabulous acts are being put together here. Kay Kay Menon, in the opening scene itself, gets us stuck like hell. He has just so powerful screen presence, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. The way he speaks is just superb. He has the authority in his voice. Raja Singh Chaudhary, who plays a law student, turning into a monster [not really, but that's the word I want to use] is also well executed, casted character. Why not? He is the writer of the film itself, and only he can do such justice. While Piyush Mishra, gets into multi faceted role here as brother of Dukkey Bana - Music, Lyrics and Acting. His act is fabulous. He sings short songs and recites best dialogues to push the movie forward. And I loved that. Pankaj Jha as Jadhwal, a hostel warden, was also good. The winner to me, is Abhimanyu Singh who plays Rananjay Singh. A son of erstwhile King of a Princely State. He is a modern day Rajput, more a kind of Rajasthani cowboy. I sincerely wish his role could be much longer.
Anurag Kashyap's Gulaal finally made it to the theaters after a long hold – very little love and lots of power plays and violence. And if you look really hard in between corpses and gulaal, there is a revolution brewing too. It has it's high points but the movie is paced too slow and is too loosely woven to be absorbing. On the upside, the music, the audacious dialogues, locales and the performance by particularly Deepak Dobriyal, Piyush Mishra and Kay Kay Menon, is brilliant. Kashyap uses stage actors and non mainstream actors which makes them more relatable. Jesse Randhwa plays Anuja, a marijuana smoking teacher who is ragged (?) while Mahi Gill as Madhuri has two songs and a handful of scenes as Duki Banna's mistress who lets him kick her around. It kicks off well with the opening scene, with Duki Banna calling for a separate state of Rajputana, powerful and violent and shows the madness of extremism. But some scenes don't add up, like when Dilip falls apart as his relationship with Kiran is a sham. Dilip (Raj Singh Choudhary) leaves home to study law and moves in with Ransa (Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh) who goes out of his way to help Dilip when he is ragged. Duki Banna convinces Ransa to stand for the election opposite Kiran (Ayesha Mohan) and then ugly gets uglier. Ransa is killed and Dilip gets caught up in the political machinations. The election is rigged and Dilip becomes the General Secretary. Kiran with her brother Karan's encouragement goes out with Dilip and turns him against Duki Banna and she ends up taking over as General Secretary after which she starts working on seducing Duki Banna, who for a powerful revolutionary leader is quite easily seduced, by tears no less. People shoot each other left, right and center and it becomes a question of who is playing who. In the end, the madness continues.
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