For the more discriminatory members of the Thakur gang, an individual’s backstory doesn’t really matter if they’re from a rival caste. With little health, the girl can’t really speak for herself. Conflict is sourced in the caste system, which results in Kushi being viewed as an outsider. These individuals are given an identity but they are best seen as a collective for the gang’s Robin Hood-ish motivations and loyalty to a certain cause. To draw more parallels to Red Dead, the closest to a John Marston equivalent is Lakhna Singh ( Sushant Singh Rajput ), one of the kingpin’s two right-hand men, who values honour above everything, persuading the other second-in-command, Vakil Singh ( Ranvir Shorey ) to allow Indumati to be a part of their gang despite her guardianship of a girl from a different caste. This is Indumati Tomar ( Bhumi Pednekar ), accompanying the young Khushi, who needs medical attention. They’re tailed by the Special Task Force, led by Inspector Virendra Singh Gujjar (a badass Ashutosh Rana ) and are faced with a quandary when they encounter a woman on the run with a child. Man Singh’s rebel gangsters, self-dubbed as Bhaagis, are in the exact same predicament. I reference Dutch because Red Dead Redemption 2 is an ideal reference point, not just because it’s the most recent great Western story to spring to mind as it continues to linger in the pop culture zeitgeist, but also because of the journey Dutch’s gang go through in the game, chased from camp to camp as they traverse a large landscape following a botched robbery. The leading presence of actor Manoj Bajpayee immediately hints at a crime film with gravitas, considering he’s played major roles in the crime masterpieces Satya and Gangs of Wasseypur, acquainted all-too-well with quality filmmaking and delivering another (short but) noteworthy performance as the draconian, Dutch Van der Linde-esque bandit leader Man Singh, a role he previously played in a smaller capacity for Shekhar Kapur ’s Bandit Queen. This no-frills chase film has none of the aforementioned hallmarks of your typical Bollywood action movie, rather more inspired by classic Westerns and gangster films. Abhishek Chaubey ’s gritty, gripping Dacoit Western in the Chambal valley is an instant classic, one of the very best movies of its kind. The best film I’ve seen so far in this young year is Sonchiriya.
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My column begins with a movie that sets the bar extremely high for 2019’s Bollywood Inquiry. Obviously, there has to be far more than that to this incredibly popular film industry – the world’s largest in terms of output – and my writing will engage with our expectations of the films by considering these preconceptions, in order to distinguish the innovative storytellers from the tired, the sophisticated films against the jejune, and the ones worth seeing on the big screen versus the ones best avoided altogether. Maybe you’ve seen popular films like 3 Idiots, Dhoom and Robot, maybe you’ve just browsed /r/BollywoodRealism or checked out T-Series. all contained in an average running time of 165 minutes. Here’s hoping these gems hit British cinemas very, very soon…Įven if Bollywood is a blind spot for you, you may be aware of the common flourishes associated with the contemporary genre-mixing “masala movies”, essentially the tent-pole movies of India: song and dance sequences, melodrama, outlandish action scenes, broad comedy, etc. Sadly, the lack of a local release for two highly anticipated movies, Photograph (from the director of The Lunchbox ) and the TIFF Midnight Madness award winner Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (The Man Who Feels No Pain) – both of which were released in India and the USA mid-March – means they won’t be in this first column. However, if the possibility is presented, I hope to also cover films in other languages of India too, including Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada – in other words, Bollywood Inquiry may also be Tollywood, Mollywood and Kollywood Inquiry too. I will confess now that I won’t get to see everything that releases in any given month (I didn’t get to see the hit comedy threequel Total Dhamaal this month, for instance), and my focus will predominantly be on Hindi films as they are the most geographically accessible ones to my base in London. I want to review these films for our website’s predominantly western audience. Part of my desire to do this column is because I have a strong interest and love for films from the Indian subcontinent and there are very few western outlets that write about South Asian cinema. I’ve decided to take residence as Film Inquiry’s monthly Bollywood columnist beginning from March 2019, where I’ll be reviewing the new releases I see each month, at the end of the month.
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