Dear Mr. Vishal Bharadwaj
I write this note to you in immense pain. When this year started 10 days back, I was hoping that MKBKM was the first movie to be released. It may have given the year a much needed kick start for good measure. But after leaving the hall around an hour back, I was actually thinking to myself that it was a good decision to move your release by a week. Actually you could have done by deferring the release for good.
Were you under the influence of Gulabo or was it some other potent alcoholic concoction that drove you to represent an otherwise straightforward story in such a woefully convoluted manner. I have always believed in directors giving credit to the audience’s interpretation of a topic but seriously, please explain to me the meaning of, “Mein raat ko sone se pehle brush karne lagi hoon (I have started brushing my teeth before I go to sleep)”. Erm… What?
And the effect of not having Gulabo is that one starts seeing a Pink Buffalo? Pink? Seriously? And what was the need of getting in South African Zulu dancers into the picture. And not just into the picture once but into every song and sequence after that. Why oh Why were these 2 absurd ideas required in the first place? And after that, why would you get Pankaj Kapur to shoot with an absurd number of wires attached to his head to test him for some unpronounceable syndrome?
You have a brand identity Mr. Bharadwaj. One that is much like a Colgate or a Coca Cola. So, if a Coca Cola tries vanilla Coke or a Colgate tries Colgate Lemon Gel and fails, the brand value takes a hit. Thankfully, like these brands, you have such a strong value that if a line extension flops, people would still trust you to come back with a bang sooner than later. I can only hope that Ek Thi Daayan is that come back for you.
Look @ your strengths and then look @ MBKBM and your biggest one conspicuous by its absence. An exceptionally strong story. Even when you dabbled with commercial cinema in the form of Kaminey, it was still a great story. Why would you take a simple story of a father, Mandola (Pankaj Kapur) who is obsessed with a dream – so much that he is willing to get his daughter Bijlee (Anushka) married off to a politician’s (Shabana) son (Arya Babbar) – and twist it around a few random hoops?
Thankfully for you, the technical elements have your traditional signature. But, then again, you have failed to get someone with half an expression (read Imran Khan) to emote. You got someone as stone cold as Neil Nitin Mukesh to act 2 years back – hell you got Pankaj Kapur’s alleged son to act 4 years back. What happened along the way?
All is not lost and I do hope – let me rephrase that – I am confident that Ek thi Daayan will be ridiculously awesome and thereby make up for a joke of a movie. I give this 5 on 10 because despite a weak storyline, there are some great performances (all except Imran Khan) to look forward to. Plus the music and technical aspects are very VB.
Looking forward to your grand comeback soon
Sincerely Yours
An ardent fan who is in a lot of pain
Trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjq87gI2Sms
I write this note to you in immense pain. When this year started 10 days back, I was hoping that MKBKM was the first movie to be released. It may have given the year a much needed kick start for good measure. But after leaving the hall around an hour back, I was actually thinking to myself that it was a good decision to move your release by a week. Actually you could have done by deferring the release for good.
Were you under the influence of Gulabo or was it some other potent alcoholic concoction that drove you to represent an otherwise straightforward story in such a woefully convoluted manner. I have always believed in directors giving credit to the audience’s interpretation of a topic but seriously, please explain to me the meaning of, “Mein raat ko sone se pehle brush karne lagi hoon (I have started brushing my teeth before I go to sleep)”. Erm… What?
And the effect of not having Gulabo is that one starts seeing a Pink Buffalo? Pink? Seriously? And what was the need of getting in South African Zulu dancers into the picture. And not just into the picture once but into every song and sequence after that. Why oh Why were these 2 absurd ideas required in the first place? And after that, why would you get Pankaj Kapur to shoot with an absurd number of wires attached to his head to test him for some unpronounceable syndrome?
You have a brand identity Mr. Bharadwaj. One that is much like a Colgate or a Coca Cola. So, if a Coca Cola tries vanilla Coke or a Colgate tries Colgate Lemon Gel and fails, the brand value takes a hit. Thankfully, like these brands, you have such a strong value that if a line extension flops, people would still trust you to come back with a bang sooner than later. I can only hope that Ek Thi Daayan is that come back for you.
Look @ your strengths and then look @ MBKBM and your biggest one conspicuous by its absence. An exceptionally strong story. Even when you dabbled with commercial cinema in the form of Kaminey, it was still a great story. Why would you take a simple story of a father, Mandola (Pankaj Kapur) who is obsessed with a dream – so much that he is willing to get his daughter Bijlee (Anushka) married off to a politician’s (Shabana) son (Arya Babbar) – and twist it around a few random hoops?
Thankfully for you, the technical elements have your traditional signature. But, then again, you have failed to get someone with half an expression (read Imran Khan) to emote. You got someone as stone cold as Neil Nitin Mukesh to act 2 years back – hell you got Pankaj Kapur’s alleged son to act 4 years back. What happened along the way?
All is not lost and I do hope – let me rephrase that – I am confident that Ek thi Daayan will be ridiculously awesome and thereby make up for a joke of a movie. I give this 5 on 10 because despite a weak storyline, there are some great performances (all except Imran Khan) to look forward to. Plus the music and technical aspects are very VB.
Looking forward to your grand comeback soon
Sincerely Yours
An ardent fan who is in a lot of pain
Trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjq87gI2Sms
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