Director: Subhash Ghai
Cast: Anurag sinha, Anil kapoor, Shefali shah, aditi sharma
Music : Sukhwinder singh
There were times when Subhash ghai's movies were eagerly awaited with expectations of a complete entertainer studded with dazzling starcast. Subhash ghai did stand upto the expectations constantly with blockbusters like Karz, Hero, Karma, Ram Lakhan, saudagar, Khal Nayak , Pardes and Taal. But last decade hasn't been good for him as a director with Yaadein and kisna failing to please the fans and the box office counters.
After 3 yrs of hiatus post kisna Subhash Ghai has again donned the director's hat with a subject which is quite different from what he has done in the past. Black & White is the story of a suicide bomber(numair) from afganistan who plans for a bomb blast on an independence day eve at Lak Quila. Numair tries to take advantage of a well known professor of urdu, Dr. Rajan mathur(Anil Kapoor) and his wife roma, a social activist(Shefali shah) for his mission by taking shelter in their home. In course of accomplishing his mission Dr. mathur and the situations around transform this ardent jehadi.
The movie has some notable performances in the form of the debutante actor Anurag Sinha as a terrorist , Anil kapoor as Professor and Shefali shah as a social activist. But the plot fails to keep up the drama wherein many of the sequences lack depth and seem unrealistic as the movie looses track by deviating to cliched scenes trying to build communal harmony and an unconvincing romantic track of numaid and shegufta(aditi sharma). This movie also lacks the good music which each and every movie of subhash ghai in the past has provided. apart from couple of decent tracks sukhwinder singh's music turns out to be very average.
The movie is a let down in comparison to the dexterity with which similar subjects( Vidhu vinod chopra's Mission Kashmir, Mani ratnam's Dil Se or Santosh sivan's The terrorist) have been handled.
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3 comments:
The review could have been a little elaborate. Looks like at 3:14 am, Kili was in a hurry to sleep ;)
True, Subash Ghai has lost the golden touch. He should stick to producing movies like Iqbal.
Kili, next review on Class of 84
ya true u got it rite..u cannot expect a detailed one at 3 in the morning..
I disagree with Atlee. It was short n simple. I liked it.
An interesting fact, Karz was not a blockbuster. It was a huge flop at the box-office and was bashed by all critics then.
Just because some talented :D singer/composer is making a remake, we are living with this misconception.
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