Badla-pur?!! :)

“The axe forgets…

But the tree remembers………”

Hi my tiddlee-om-pom-poms…

Sunday’s here again and Rajni sar’s testing his pichkari….rains all over the place on the first day of March…lo kallo baat!! Hain jee!! Kuchh bhi!! :)

Asal me kya hua, ki kuchh din pehle again a couple of songs caught my attention like, ‘jee karda’ and ‘jeena jeena’ featuring Varun Dawan. Then as usual my curious dimaag got me to research about wat the movie was and when was it expected to release.

But all my expectations dashed and crashed when I came to know of the name….It was “BADLAPUR” !!

“Badla-pur”??!! what kind of a name was that? I mean, so very “Mayapuri-ish” nai?!! :)))

No baba, I am not going to waste my time on such a seemingly mediocre movie…I said to myself. But again listening to and viewing those songs, I realized that apart from the high energy and melodious music there was an intensity and a peculiar mystery that came along. Alright, these things set the movie apart for me and I decided to see it afterall, despite the qualms about the name that lingered on, but I would take the risk I thought…at least I’ll be treated with good music, if not anything else. :)

And finally I made it…..

It commenced….and….and….OMG!! Had it not been for dear life I would have stopped breathing altogether…..for fear of distraction from the ongoing high momentum saga….the thrill, the speed, the screenplay…..

The beauty was….generally in movies the suspense about the murderer is revealed only in the climax, but here, we know it all very very clearly right from the beginning….who killed, how n why he killed!! Aur maze ki baat, Only the audience knows!! Not even the characters in the story!! Imagine!! and the title too very clearly tells us it’s a revenge saga. Still….despite all this, the thrill isn’t lost!! “ab kya hoga!!”….all the while we are kept asking this question!!

I was Not allowed to make up my mind about anything baba!! Who is the Hero? Who is the Villian? Whats gonna happen? Whats this all about? :)

Good isn’t good enough and Bad can be fairly good…..!!

Hats off Mr Sriram Raghavan for this brilliant cinematic megafeast!! :) He knows exactly what he is doing and like the Pied Piper, we play with our heads and hearts to his tune in totality. :)

I was loving it. I thanked God giving me the soundness of mind to understand this phenomenon, running in front of my eyes. I was shocked, surprised, amazed…I cried, I laughed, I smiled…. :)

I mean, it was too good to be true. The performances were perfect…whether it was Kanchan[Arpita Apte], Yami, Divya Datta or the private detective [Ashwini Kalsekar] or may be Laik’s mom [Kumud Mishra]

…..just observe the subtle perfection in Vinay Pathak’s movements, his body language, his expressions!!! 

Huma Qureshi was more of a looker than any consequence in acting….she did well in whatever capacity her character let her to.

The Stars all along were Nawazuddin Siddiqui n Varun Dhawan. Nawaz takes away the limelight from Varun so many times yet varun surpasses himself with his acting prowess. The sheer transformation from a chocolaty “oh so cute” boy to a hard hitting man who could be brutal to the hilt, hell bent on revenge at any cost, something a bit like what we witnessed with Ranbir in Rockstar.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui!! My God…what can I say about him in this film….it was totally his movie…..He is ruthless, He is sly, He is disgusting and despicable….and then he luvs, his bond with his mom and girlfriend, and then he tries to do good in the end…in that utterly unexpected climax…superlative!!

Yes, for Raghavan to work without restrains, and to push a few boundaries, this movie had to be ‘A’ rated. 

And yes, this movie did actually get me to the edge of the seat most of the time…in literal sense…. :)

So people….do take out time, see the movie and experience it in your own individual way because each of us are bound to have an impact distinct and discrete to ourselves, very different from the rest!! :)

Would love to know your views….

Till then, its bye bye…tata…."Happy Holi" from me here at Page-3!! :)