Nishabd
is unspeakably bad. Please don’t start talking about the camera angles and pulsating music - what was it with the too-loud, too-creepy background tunes, anyway? - or about AB’s magnificent acting, because he’s begun to peddle the same heavy expressions whether it’s Viruddh or Baabul or this piece of junk from The Factory.
Also see this interview with Ramu : “wet clothes must be eeky for women but it looks good on screen ” - and this one: “I’ve not admitted this to anybody,” he says lowering his voice “but Nishabd is somewhere inspired from the biography of renowned author Ayn Rand.”
Uma
i think the idea was to look beyond the obvious, beyond the concept and maybe beyond the excecution too :).
But if critics did all this, then there would be no further need for critics, I suppose :)..
Cheers
Jo
Comment by Jo — March 6, 2007 @ 4:41 am
That’s the thing - I just can’t see that far, beyond the concept and beyond the execution… :)
Comment by Uma — March 6, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
please tell me that you didn’t pay money to see this :)
and atleast the director was honest ‘wasn’t the tag line ’some love stories are not understood’ or some such thing :)
and you are right AB as bhishmapitamaha - as played by mukesh khanna - is irritating.
Comment by harini calamur — March 9, 2007 @ 3:37 am
amitabh has been peddling the ’same heavy expressions’ since the early eighties or thereabouts. the frontbenchers had moved away from him long ago - it’s only the singularly uncritical middle classes who don’t seem able to bring themselves to recognize the obvious and let go of an idol ‘who’s one of us’.
Comment by kuffir — March 11, 2007 @ 4:36 am