Post Kaminey, Vishal Bharadwaj is becoming a director icon of sorts. Anything he touches has the makings of a classic. In an industry, nurtured by inanities and formulas, this man is re-scripting the meaning of cinema and success.
For me, it is great news that Vishal Bharadwaj and SRK have patched up and getting ready to work on a script. For SRK, this could be the big opportunity to let go of his old baggage of acting skills and begin afresh with a film maker who believes in breaking the rules and redefining the limits for actors. He needs to break out of the Karan Johar/Aditya Chopra/Farah Khan schools of film making, and dig deep inside to stretch the acting envelope. If not now, when?
Bharadwaj's Omkaara (adaption of Shakespeare's Othello) saw Saif Ali Khan tread new ground in playing Langda Tyagi--so much so that he stole the limelight from others in the film.
I can't wait to see the raw energy of SRK bursting on the screen under the baton of a auteur like Bharadwaj.
But till that happens, I would be waiting expectantly for Ishqiya, Bharadwaj's next venture as producer. If the trailer is any indication, this film set in rural India is going to be a riot of bawdy humour laced with profanities. I enjoy listening to asli Indian gaalis coming full blast on the big screen.
2 comments:
While there is no denying that Vishal Bhardwaj is a great film maker, I believe that his films of late have the same treatment. I remember how the critics went ga-ga over Sanjay Gupta's Kaante...and then Sanjay Gupta went on to make Musafir, Zinda, Plan, Woodstock Villa, Acid Factory...films with similar treatment and themes. I am not an ardent admirer of such cinema. Only when one experiements with different themes and treatments you are acknowlegded as a prolific film maker!
I don't agree with what you say. Look at the variety that Bharadwaj has offered: Maqbool, Makdee, Omkara, Blue Umbrella and Kaminey. The treatments are different in each of the films. I think here is a film maker who has his heart in the right place, who is unafraid to move into known and new genres, and is bold to express a new idiom in Indian cinema.
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