Gulaal Review Out
Excerpts
Gulaal follows a multidimensional narrative and Kashyup adopts a dark, brooding and relentless storytelling pattern that doesn’t simplify the dense plot
Kashyup’s treatment is such that none of the characters are distinctively defined, introduced or established. As a keen viewer, you are expected to acclimatize to each of them on your own and learn their conflicts, as the story progresses promptly. Further with the story’s setting in untried terrains, at times, it becomes a little difficult to relate to the characters or their immediate concerns. But then you enjoy the exercise.
Rest assured, performances from an Anurag Kashyap film are always promising.
Tips: Crazyrals
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Too bad the reviewer misspelled Mr. Kashyap’s name a few times… And it sounds like something a ten year-old might have written for his fifth grade assignment “Review a film you watched this weekend”…
ooohh.. edgy review…. I am not reading any more reviews before saturday!!!
So early???…is it already released?…
BTW din’t see much promotion for this one like we saw for Dev.D
me too not reading reviews before the release
. I got sucked into this one…thank god it was completely useless.
For folks in Chandigarh… there is a paid preview on Thursday night @ Fun Republic… just cant wait!
Any idea when is ‘Paanch’ releasing?
Last heard, that it was releasing sometime in the month of April 2009
another review: http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/film/film_details.asp?code=92&source=1
excerpts from that review:
It isn’t yet the end of the first quarter but it’s already time to designate 2009 as the year of director Anurag Kashyap’s resurrection. Bollywood’s greatest maverick has joined the select group of filmmakers who have come to expect the comfort of regular releases, respectable reviews and positive box-office results.
Just when Kashyap appeared to be settling down in the industry he loves to hate, he has pulled out yet another piece of disruptive filmmaking. Gulaal, an incendiary political drama about corruption and fascism that is set in Rajasthan, opens this fortnight.
The director set the movie in Rajasthan because of his perception that the state is “caught somewhere between the past and modernity”. It’s also a place where the past can be massaged to suit the present, where ex-royals like Bana valourise the history of their warrior caste to compensate for the loss of their power and privy purses.
The ideas contained in Gulaal were developed in 2001 on a double-layered foundation of anger and disillusionment.
The future is red or saffron, depending on your interpretation of Kashyap’s reading of recent incidents of moral policing.
Don’t trust these critics and their reviews… do i need to say that?
Watch ‘Gulaal’ and rate Anurag’s excellence by yourself…
Am damn sure, all you cinema lovers will stand up together for this ‘classic’ and rate it 5 stars or even more…
i watched gulaal, 1st day 1st show…, and i did not have a single penny, but u know when ur at the stage of “aspiring filmmakers or asst. director , u some how managae it hook or crook i watched it with my cousin and his friends”.
after watching pyaasa(classic), anurag was so much inspired and motivated that he completed his script gulaal…. And gulaal motivated me to continue my ever struck script . My bro told me that it was the weakest of all my scripts, where are you bro ? what happened to you was his reaction on my initial drafts.., but when last night i completed 1/3 rd of the script… and narrated him… he was more amazed by AK’s influence on me i must say … so i need not be more explanatary on the effect of gulaal…
kurosawa: “movies must move”…, it Shaked me.
“if it cant hold your neck, it will hold your balls”
regards
Bunil kumar
Bangalore
“distinctively defined” that defines it all
but for me piyush mishra overtakes anurag in setting up the aesthetical aspects for this movie.
its been 3 days and the movie denies to sink in..
reviewed it on my blog as well.
cheers ak