The Hangman
During the 5-day NY guerrilla shoot of Nishikanth’s “Mumbai Meri Jaan” and the location hunt for Nishi’s next, our Guide/Project Manager/Production Incharge was a creative genius called Vishal Bhandari and like many reading this, I never ever have heard of him.
A graduate of NY Film Academy, un-credited writer and production maverick of the NY shoot of Vettiyadu Veliyadu and a compelling film-maker in his own right Vishal is a person who speaks when he connects and gives you this look and feel of the film-making world that is miles apart from what you see, read and talk.
For 3 days I have been amazed by his hunger to tell stories the way he does, the kind of stories he wants to tell and the quality of the work he did. He has made 5 films to date – A Pocket Full of Dreams, Maaya, The Hang-Man, Kaalchakra and Bagh Dakhvun Hat – A super hit Marathi comedy film.
The Hang-Man, even though I have not seen it, impressed me from the moment I saw the trailer and it only got exponentiated by the dough that I got from Vishal about what his concept was and how he made it happen. The film is Shreyas Talpade’s debut for which he came to audition, Om Puri right from the hospital bed to complete the film and Gulshan Grover at his regular best.
The movie is yet to be released and nobody for sure knows when it will either but for all the non-commercial cine-fanatics out there, the trailer is all what we can provide now.
Also, all you knowledgeable critics out there, the opening scene may bring to memory a similar themed movie by the legendry Adoor Gopalkrishnan called Nizhalkkuthu of which this movie is not a remake or a copy. The first question I asked him was the same even though the name of the movie eluded me but Vishal reassured me that that except for the theme of the “Executioner” the story is nowhere close to being similar. And that this being PFC, we are sure that is the truth.
Vishal will be here – so let the emotions flow…
Tags: English - Other
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
am a wee bit perplexed… An Indian movie set in a village but the language is in English and the background music in Hindi. Beats me! how am i supposed to take the film seriously?
~X(
bit weird 4 surr…but its ok..even malgudi days was in english…
i think alleast hangman n his wife shud have spoken marathi…
otherwise seems a good drama movie…
Interesting!
But ridiculous to see villagers speak in English.
Reminded me or some scenes of Mr & Mrs Iyer & Parzania.
why is this in english and songs in HINDI:((
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completely agree with you mainak. it was ridiculous to see all the characters speaking in english in parzania. although i thought, otherwise, the film was really nice.
read some of your comments and would like to react to the same.
1 the time when I was pitching to make this film there was not one sigle financier to back the project in Hindi.
2 the only possible market for the film was thought to be English film audiences that frequented the multiplexes in the early 2002.
3 besides the above two points I think a film has its own mother tongue. If you feel odd watching the charachters speak in English why does anyone feel odd to watch Sir Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” in English.
There are so many legends that have been written in various languages and performed in so many but that does not mean that they belonged to the land in which they were being written or performed.