Review: Ludo
At the start while reviewing Ludo; mandatory disclosure; Catch and Snatch kind of movies usually have a max viewing time of 90 minutes and anything above that it starts to get a tad iffy and "lost" even. And that is where the problem of Ludo run time is and they could have done away with the middle 30-40 minutes of the film. Those were times when the film actually lost the plot and meandered into finding answers to every plot lines it had introduced. A film that starts well with a modern day Chitragupt and Yama (Anurag Basu looking impressive) looking for answers to life and gradually builds the plot of four different tracks (A la blue, red, yellow and green ludo dots) and each one with a back story that typically collides at different times of life and moments. There is an Abhishek Bachchan plot, a Rajkumar Rao plot, an Aditya Roy Kapur plot and finally the impressive Rahul Saraf plot. The plots all converge to Sattu Bhaiyya (Pankaj Tripathi) in some way or the other...