Reviews of films released on 13th March,2009.

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Gulaal review by Gaurav Malani

Gulaal will blow you up (PFC)

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vikschshkr 11 March 2009
08:32:00 am

http://dearcinema.com/gulaal-n.....dden-best/
Bits from the review:
Provocative, evocative, violent, aggressive, poetic, commentative, powerful – prefix whatever adjective you will. Gulaal is all this, and much more. Gulaal is new Indian cinema at its angst-ridden best. It is the full-blown emergence of one of Indian cinema’s most-original voices in recent years, who goes by the name of Anurag Kashyap.
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In making since 2001 and delayed by repeated financial constraints, Gulal apparently was written by Kashyap when he was facing a big low, with his debut film Paanch stuck with the censors. And apparently the whole screenplay was carved out of Saheer Ludhianvi’s immortal line “Yeh Mehlon, Yeh Takhton, Yeh Taajon Ki Duniya..Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jayen To Kya Hai” from Guru Dutt’s Pyasa. Not surprisingly, Mishra’s poetry – be it in the form of songs or recited by the character played by him of a on-the-brink-of-mental-instability poet-musician who has become a complete misfit in the violence-ridden surroundings – almost assumes the form a character in the film. It is the poetry/lyrics that, in fact, make the Gulal experience a memorable one, taking the story forward, commenting on events surrouding the mankind, and satirising how politicians and the system have taken India for a ride. Can you recall, at least from recent times, if you have heard lyrics as powerful as “Krishn ki pukaar hai ye/ Bhaagwat ka saar hai/ Ki yuddh hi to veer ka pramaan hai/ Kaurawon ki bheed ho/ Ya paandavon ka neer(d) ho/ Jo lad sakaa hai wohi to mahaan hai”, or “Ghalib ke Momin ke khwaabon ki duniya/ Majaazon ke un inqualaabon ki duniya/ Faiz Firaaq aur Saahir o Makhdoom Mir ki Zauk ki Daagh ki duniya/ Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai” in Hindi film?

vikschshkr 11 March 2009
08:34:50 am

LINK

Som 11 March 2009
08:43:42 am

Gulaal will blow you up!

Som 12 March 2009
01:16:16 am

Anurag Kashyap’s Gulaal:
Now here’s a film that could have been much more hard hitting

Som 12 March 2009
10:48:04 pm

Taran Adarsh’s review

Som 13 March 2009
01:03:37 am

TOI review of Gulaal

At one level, the film also works as a colourful docu-feature on the alluring lifestyle of the Parsi community. But what stands out are the life-like performances by the ensemble cast — the kids are brilliant — and the gentle comic strain that carries the film forward with a chuckle and a grin. Don’t miss it.

Som 13 March 2009
01:05:01 am

But one is ready to forgive, faced by the brilliance of much of this film. Gulaal has been a long time in the making — seven difficult years — but the delay has, if anything, added depth to this tale, told with great passion, craft and daring by Kashyap

Som 13 March 2009
08:08:56 am

Gulaal is inconsistent and exhausting but I recommend that you see it for its terrific performances and Anurag’s vast but unrealized ambitions

Little Zizou is in equal parts, charming and patchy. You will need lots of patience for this one

Som 13 March 2009
08:10:49 am

Colourful, crazed

Little Zizou: An insight into the world of Parsis

Som 13 March 2009
08:17:40 am

Raja Sen:Gulaal is a compelling watch

Twenty-first century Parsis

Som 13 March 2009
07:13:50 pm

Gulaal, directed by Anurag Kashyap is an endlessly fascinating movie about politics and the youth, about love and betrayal, about reform and revenge. It’s a film with many layers, and one with solid drama at its core, which makes it such an engaging watch. Kashyap knows the world he’s showing us in this film and takes us through it with an assuredness that I found missing in his last picture, Dev D.

He serves up a palette of diverse characters and flirts with interesting issues like campus ragging, student activism, caste biases and the thirst for legitimacy. Set in Rajasthan, Gulaal’s central premise involves the efforts of the erstwhile royal community to claim back their Rajputana province from the democratic government.

Read the rest from HERE

Som 13 March 2009
07:14:45 pm

A light-hearted comedy that looks inwards at the Parsi community in Mumbai, Little Zizou – written and directed by Sooni Taraporevala – is for audiences with broad tastes. The director’s own son Jehan Batiwala playes Xerxes, a 10-year-old football fanatic who dreams that his dead mother will bring Zenedine Zidane to Mumbai. His brother Art (played by Imaad Shah) is a cartoon-sketching teenager who spends his days trying to construct a flight simulator with his friends. Both boys share a strained relationship with their father Cyrus Khodaji II (played by Sohrab Ardeshir), a self-proclaimed protector of the Parsi faith, whose hunger for power earns him brickbats in the free thinking community newspaper run by liberal-leaning editor-publisher Boman Pressvala (played by Boman Irani).

Read the rest from Website

Aarohi 15 March 2009
04:50:05 am

Sahir, Circa 2009 (Namrata Joshi’s Gulaal review)

Aarohi 15 March 2009
04:52:35 am

sarfaroshii kii tamannaa ab hamaare dil meN hai…
o re ‘Bismil’ kaash aate aaj tum hindustaan
dekhte kii mulk saaraa yuuN Tashan meN, thrill meN hai…
aaj ka launDaa ye kehtaa hum to ‘Bismil’ thak gaye
apnii aazadii to bhaiyyaa launDiyaa ke til meN hai…
aaj ke jalsoN meiN ‘Bismil’ ek guuNgaa gaa rahaa
aur bahroN kaa vo relaa naachtaa mehfil meN hai…
haath ki khaadii banaane kaa zamaanaa lad gayaa
aaj to chaddii bhii siltii englishoN kii mill meN hai…

Priceless!

Som 15 March 2009
08:46:48 pm

The blossoming of Anurag Kashyap into a formidable storyteller who bends all the rules of filmmaking, acquires a startling new definition with this film about student unrest during times of intense politicizing.

Gulaal emblazons itself across the screen as a deft definitive brutal and life-defining film on the culture of decadence in a typical North Indian. It spares us no room for niceties. And definitely asks the squeamish to stay away.

With dialogues like, “If your father had withdrawn in time you wouldn’t have been born a bastard”, you surely don’t expect Gulaal to be Sooraj Barjatya’s domain, do you? It is not. What it most definitely is, a powerful and brutal portrait of a culture that thrives of bullying tactics.

The homage to the cinema of Vishal Bhardwaj is rampant in Gulaal. Somewhere in the brilliantly-cohesive soundtrack we even hear the heavenly strains of Lata Mangeshkar’s Pani pani re from Bhardwaj’s Maachis. A strangely incongruous inclusion in a film where life is lived by the gun and the mantra for survival is deception and duplicity.

Read the rest of Subhash K Jha review from Website