Saturday, March 14, 2009

Movie Review: “Gulaal” is vibrant


This time, film maker Anurag Kashyap has come up with Gulaal. Last time, it was Dev-D, which relished a grand success and the latest offering of the director, Gulaal is a political drama complete with emotional ingredients like love, greed, deceit and powe

The movie is a Zee Limelight production, stars Aditya Srivastav, Piyush Mishra, Mahie Gill, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Mukesh Bhatt, Ayesha Mohan, Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Dobriyal, Pankaj Jha and Jessie Randhawa.

The movie took shape in 2001 but was delayed due to myriad reasons. There are certain values in the film like love, power, deceit, greed and politics. Kay Kay Menon plays one of the protagonists called Dukey Bana, who masterminds a Rajputana movement in order to have a separate state ruled by Rajputs.

Set in Rajpur, a fictional city in Rajasthan, the film revolves around a member of the erstwhile royal family who wants to go back to the days of royalty and become the ruler of the state.

The story of the movie revolves around Dileep (Raj Choudhary) who comes to Jaipur to study, accompanied by his servant Bhanwar (Mukesh Bhatt). . In the college he is soon embroiled into local politics. The local kingpin Dukey Bana (Kay Kay Menon) compels Dilip to contest in the college elections makes him win. Later they plan for a revolution, challenging the democracy.

The movie was written by Raj Singh Chaudhary, Aparna Chaturvedi and Anurag Kashyap itself. It’s a narration of an incident, as a I said earlier that Anurag Kashyap is a master story teller, he never let break of the story. Actors are good on their part. Kay Kay Menon, who played the protagonist (who plans the revolution against the democracy), is indeed a bold actor.

Cinematographer Rajeev Ravi uses red-pink frames to light up scenes to the Gulaal symbolism, at the same time, Piyush Mishra has written some really nice lines for the movie. It can be said the use of poignant poetry while penning the provoking lyrics. Aarti Bajaj is the editor of the movie and done her job well. The verdict is it’s a good movie to see, if you love Kashyap’s style of film making.

Movie: Gulaal
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Star Cast: Deepak Dobriyal, Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastav, Piyush Mishra, Ayesha Mohan, Jessy Randhawa, Mahi Gill, Pankaj Jha

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