Analysing films

Tandav in short makes a lot of effort and takes a lot of time to come to the point. But, by that time viewers have lost interest in the plot and the narration. What could have been a 2 hour feature film has been needlessly stretched to a long sojourn and if that was not enough, leaves viewers hanging for Season 2, too. Ali Abbas Zafar, does not travel beyond the length of a feature film format. He had the bandwidth to create the characters, take time in narrating the plot, build the plot gradually, develop the back story and eventually sew them all together. Alas, it all falls flat and he does not get the web series format too. The trailer had generated enough hype and pity it did not sustain to the finale. Where does it go wrong? For one, casting. Characters of Shonali Nagrani, Sara Jane Dias, and Gauhar Khan are all so manicured and propah that it beats one to understand the realism of it. Decked up in the ultimate diva templates and at the end of it, they are misfits. The three main...

Filmistaan is a small little film, with a bunch of new comers, who are all in their right earnest have been able to provide for a beautiful and meaningful cinema. Cinema that entertains, that has a message and most of all a nuanced performance from the newbies. A set of fresh faces, starting with the two leads, Sharib Hashmi and Inaamulhaq and the a stellar performance by Kumud Mishra and Gopal Dutt. The films is a classic homage to the partition and the fallouts of the same that seems to be a scar which does not seem to get healed with time. Each scene in the movie goes on to reconnect to with the pangs of partition and what a historic blunder that seems to have been committed. There are no preachy lessons or lectures, but the knock out dialogues and the screenplay seems to be telling in it's subtlety the ill effects of the partition. The scene of the local doctor (Hakim) coming in to treat Sunny (the lead character's name) for a bullet injury and the pain that one sees i...