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Supermen of Malegaon Movie Review

Director :      Faiza Ahmad Khan
Music :      Sneha Khanwalkar and Hitesh Sonik
Lyrics :
Starring :      Shakeel Bharati, Farogh Jafri, Akram Khan, Shafique and Nazir Shaikh

 

 

 

 

Inserted away everywhere in Bollywood we have a factory that mixes out remakes of Hollywood, Tollywood and Mollywood to good effect. Oshiwara is where the ‘intellectuals’ put their head together. The characters are picked up as it as and even scenes are ‘lifted’. Some go on to become Bollywood blockbusters raking in the crores. Why, there have even been tunes replicated to Hindi lyrics!

What SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON does is turn copy on its head. It sets a standard for rural creativity that can find its audience at the international arena. Faiza Ahmad Khan concocts a heady mix of originality tempered with a huge dose of raw creativity to deliver a killer brew that is sure to have you leaving the multiplex high on thinking differently. Actually, you don’t want to leave your seat even after the movie has ended because the director has you begging for more. When was the last time you had this feeling?

SUPERMEN OF MALEGAON is a crisp 60-minute documentary on the life of the people of Malegaon that is actually a smartly told feature. If promoted aggressively, this can turn out to be a bigger blockbuster than ROWDY RATHORE. But unfortunately, films with intellectual content have few takers.

Malegaon has become notoriously famous for its blasts over the last few years. The tension between the Hindu Muslim communities is what director Faiza starts with. For one moment, my heart sinks. Not another of those Hindu-Muslim lessons I think to myself. But thankfully, that is not what she lives upon. She deflects from that topic as quickly as she touches upon it, to dig deep into the lives of the people of Malegaon fighting financial depression to make ends meet. Theirs is an endless saga of working in the power loom. On Friday’s however, their lives and mind get a break. This is when they escape into fantasy land immersing themselves into the world of movies.

They cannot be movie stars, but that does not stop them from dreaming of being a star. One such character is known for making blockbusters. His name is Nazir Shaikh. A spoof on SHOLAY has given him the bravado to attempt more and his budget is just Rs 50,000 for a movie. The ingenuity with which he spoofs Gabbar and his gang using cycles instead of horses is hilarious. ”The movie ran for over two months,” he informs us through an interviewer. ”Tickets were even sold in black.’ There is no sense of puffed up pride when he delivers this line, but just nonchalance. As if to say, ‘what is the big deal.”

Done with Bollywood, he now wants to give the locals of Malegaon a dose of Hollywood. Superman is his next stop, with a comic take. This Superman will fly to the nearest mobile tower, when on ground, if the network is weak! He wears rubber slippers with red socks worn over blue ill-fitting pants tucked under a red short pant with the thread (keeping it together) hanging out. The symbol is M instead of S and the director tells us that this is not a lift. ”We have just taken the idea but the story is completely different. There are different situations unlike the one you saw in the Superman series. This Superman is a comic character, so where is the copying?” he asks.

With such confidence as attitude, it is no wonder then that he is adept at getting his cast at rock bottom rates along with the accessories. The camera used is a Handy cam, but there are special effects at the editing table which is bargained for Rs,10,000.

 

Rating : 5/5

 

Gangs of Wasseypur review

Director :      Anurag Kashyap
Music :      Sneha Khanwalkar
Lyrics :      Varun Grover and Piyush Mishra
Starring :      Manoj Bajpayee, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Piyush Mishra, Richa Chadda, Remma Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yashpal sharma and Huma Qureshi

 

 

 

 

A good reason exactly why Slumdog Millionaire must have been a international exploding market has been as it diligently noted and also noted around the underbelly regarding Mumbai in a fashion that you might not merely observe but in addition go through the process around the display. This specific doesn’t mean that after you want to enjoy ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, the particular usher belly and also stab an individual foolish or perhaps the fat free popcorn seller would certainly maintain any container in your chest muscles to be able to stream the sound of your frankly flame. But some of us wonder what the thing is and also notice will really allow you to a contented prisoner shackled, ready to submit to be surrender to Wasseypur: any terrain just where ‘kabootars’ multitask and also uprooting railroad trails to be able to loot carriages will be scarcely an activity.

First of all, here is whatever you should not anticipate using this movie. In case your neighbour/ friend/ colleague/ car owner said that to you this particular movie is founded on the actual fossil fuel cosca, they did not understand much better. The actual main figures tend to be done ‘koylay ki dalaali’ however their own ‘mooh kaala’ occurs with regard to several factors. Next, should you be anticipating the active thriller wherever individuals are away from home and your own forecasts with regard to forthcoming moments tend to be switched more than their own mind, this is simply not a movie for you personally. Right here, we now have a distinctive example of beauty, one which is actually slower as well as clever. Figures tend to be released in a easygoing speed and far period is actually ingested within establishing the actual feeling as well as atmosphere. The particular individuals are chopped up as well as diced masterfully just like a Sous-chef manicuring the carrot. You could declare the actual movie spends a lot time for you to set up the area and also the people who this simply leaves short amount of time to inform a tale. However within a character-driven film, it seems sensible to provide every person because of video footage in order to minutely show their own characteristics as well as maaro listenings which make all of them unforgettable at the end from the movie. “Mooh ze taar ghusake gaand ze nikalke patang nahin udaayi toh humara naam nahin! ”

As the tale is simply too lengthy as well as exhausting in order to narrate, simply determining charge toss will certainly fill this site. Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpai) features a one-point plan: avenge their father’s demise through fossil fuel my own owner-turned-politician Vidhayak Ramadhir Singh (Tigmanshu Dhulia). Conditions business lead Khan to some double living. In a single, he could be wedded in order to Najma (Richa Chadda) and it has 3 daughters and another, he could be lured through Durga’s (Reemma Sen) attractive returning to possess an additional boy through the girl. This individual also offers 2 sidekicks, the actual permanently irritated Farhan (Piyush Mishra) and also the Rajkumar Hirani-lookalike Asgar Khan (Jameel Khan). Via the majority of the movie, Sardar will either be fighting Ramadhir Singh as well as Quereshis who powered your pet from Wasseypur initially. The storyplot requires a intimate change following a sacrifice of fowl. Sardar’s daughters develop in order to go after their own particular really like passions, resulting in a few invaluable amusing moments. The actual movie ends having a expected orgasm and when you had been up via the majority of the movie, you are able to imagine the finish at least a quarter-hour prior to the shutting credit.

Moments which make this particular movie paisa vasool: One wherever Sardar Khan would go to get rid of this particular ‘pehelwan’. Soon after the very first stab, this individual requires a rushed stage back- such as he has going to run away. And their foe knows exactly what offers occurred, phuchchak- the 2nd stab as well as once again one step back again. This particular continues for around one hundred fifty stabs till the opposition cannot be punctured any more. This particular picture is not really unique for your repulsive amount of jabs however for the book design. Another will be the picture wherever Sardar’s boy Faizal (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) efforts to create a proceed their woman really like Mohsina (Huma Qureshi). Benefit stage from the picture is actually whenever Mohsina blasts Faizal with regard to keeping the girl hands without having the girl authorization as well as Faizal chokes as well as sniffs nearly such as he’d enter a good afligido sob.

Though the film rests mainly on Manoj Bajpai’s overconfident shoulders, the fact that he doesn’t manage to hugely impress isn’t a game changer. Tigmanshu Dhulia, on the other hand, manages very well with his contained and controlled terms that say a lot more than he does in the film. Among the actresses, Richa Chadda pretty much rules and has a promising career ahead. Reemma Sen may have an extra ‘M’ but that doesn’t add much to her acting skills and most would appreciate her sexy back which has more screen space than her front. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the new ‘common man’ in Hindi films and given his choice of arty and independent films, he won’t be reduced to a Rajpal Yadav. Piyush Mishra’s story is comforting especially when you’re tired of keeping track of why X wants to kill Y or why Z is helping W. A neat voiceover recaps events and lets you sit back and pay a little less attention.

The majority of tracks heavenly catch the actual nature from the film. However in contrast to the actual tracks that you will get hooked on depending on exactly how they have already been utilized in the actual movie, the actual ‘Hunter song’ seems greatest on the ipod device and also the pictures perform small proper rights towards the tune. ‘Jiya Su Bihar Ke Lala’ being sung through the Manoj Tiwari mixes nicely using the shutting photo from the movie as well as increases the feeling.

Bihar and also the says which have sprouted from inside this can make for an excellent painting with regard to movie theater. The actual dialect, the actual unusual as well as untranslatable expletives and also the missing feeling associated with energy enables conduct that could increase eye brows within courteous community. ‘Gangs associated with Wasseypur’ handles to make use of this particular for their benefit in order to terrorize, titillate and motion picture symbols that will determine exactly how any kind of acting professional might strategy a good anti-hero personality later on. Also it handles all of this depending on an easy viewpoint: Ain’t absolutely no sunlight when… you are within the incorrect part of the packed weapon.

Thinking about the quantity of bloodstream leaking within this movie, this could’ve simply already been known as ‘Gangs associated with Sauce-e-pur’. Very hot as well as nice and various. ‘Bata deejiyega sabko! ’

Ratings : 3/5