I re-watched Anurag Kashyap's Gulaal recently.
I vaguely kept remembering snippets from Piyush Mishra playing a very interesting Prithvi Bana. One piece where he talks about people with round spectacles.. himself, John Lennon and others as a fraternity of enlightened souls was very interesting.
The re-watch did not disappoint me.
Anurag Kashyap, whose more recent work has not lived up to my sky high expectations, clearly got everything right in this movie. The cast is very capable. The various layers of college politics, national politics, caste politics, family drama, sexual politics and what not is presented in a seamless story with a simple narrative which holds your attention till the very end. Piyush Mishra, who has written the music excels and sets new standards for himself. The use of colour is delicately handled, as opposed to the garish collages that we often see in movies set in Rajasthan.
The entire cast is good, but Abhimanyu Singh stands out in a very well cast role.
Apparently, it was not very successful commercially. Although artsy, it is very much mainstream entertainment, and I am surprised why it fared poorly.
The cast is exceptional, direction good, cinematography complementary and a very enjoyable movie.
I vaguely kept remembering snippets from Piyush Mishra playing a very interesting Prithvi Bana. One piece where he talks about people with round spectacles.. himself, John Lennon and others as a fraternity of enlightened souls was very interesting.
The re-watch did not disappoint me.
Anurag Kashyap, whose more recent work has not lived up to my sky high expectations, clearly got everything right in this movie. The cast is very capable. The various layers of college politics, national politics, caste politics, family drama, sexual politics and what not is presented in a seamless story with a simple narrative which holds your attention till the very end. Piyush Mishra, who has written the music excels and sets new standards for himself. The use of colour is delicately handled, as opposed to the garish collages that we often see in movies set in Rajasthan.
The entire cast is good, but Abhimanyu Singh stands out in a very well cast role.
Apparently, it was not very successful commercially. Although artsy, it is very much mainstream entertainment, and I am surprised why it fared poorly.
The cast is exceptional, direction good, cinematography complementary and a very enjoyable movie.
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