Khamosh : Once upon a time VVChopra had made this Thriller

Khamosh is a thriller where every time needle is pointed towards a suspect, audience may feel that no he is just usual suspect at that moment and real murderer is somebody else and one by one needle of suspicion goes to many characters and audience also keep one step ahead as director’s screen play allows him to know it that something is missing in the investigation and real culprit is yet to be found.

And this is the beauty of the film that audience wait patiently and attentively for director to unfold the mystery. Beauty is in reaching at that point and its not a great mystery where one gets a shock that what this person is the murderer.

No, here many audiences may get a clue but this journey is quite interesting.

Khamosh and Saja-e-Maut, two initial films of Vidhu Vinod …

Ardha Satya: Rama Shetty = Hand pump, spreading poison all around

In continuation with the post Ardha Satya : Silver Jubilee remembrance–Part 1.
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Two things can easily be said about Ardha Satya or by taking clues from Ardha Satya

(1) Fine characterisation is the most beautiful aspect of Ardha Satya

(2) Good director never needs to use harsh back ground music or chanting of shlokas to
introduce a powerful character. Such gimmick is not needed.

It rarely happens that in a 2 hours film, one gets hardly 5-6 scenes consuming not more than 20 minutes, and still his presence is felt all over the film. Rama Shetty (RS) is that character in Ardha Satya and Sadashiv Amrapurkar has played the character with a great command over his craft of acting. Villain always remains an important part in such a story but rarely such a non dramatic villain was presented in the past, who could leave such a deep …