Film opens with a scene which has a voice over and Anupam Kher sitting at sea shore… You’re with the film from this 1st scene itself… the voice over compels you to find out who is this “bastard” who had penetrated Anupam Kher’s and others lives and tainted them forever…
I’ll not talk about the story of the film as there is nothing novel or fresh in it but still it’s a incredibly smart script…“almost” PERFECT!!! Film keeps you with it since the 1st frame till the last…
It’s extremely commendable and valiant of the writer, director and the producer to think and write a script which has two 55+ actors in the lead, which has no songs, which has no item number, which has no female lead and no foreign locations…it’s almost like they all first sat together and discussed what all BIG NOs are there in a commercial Hindi film and then they choose all of ‘em and made it into a film and how!!!
There have been lots of terrorism centric films lately and that also more Mumbai leaning and this one is also no different. But the difference lies in treatment, script, acting and above all, sincerity…This is a film made with full earnestness and concern about the theme and not just to posture that “yeah, we’re also serious filmmakers!!!” There is not even a single flash of ostentation in the film. It is made with heart and it touches you exactly at your heart…
I, as a film lover, went to watch the film only because of one reason – the noxious combo of Naseeruddin Shah & Anupam Kher…I think these two are one of the preeminent actors Bollywood has ever produced. And what a performance!!! It’s just inevitable to give a standing ovation to these two…essentially it’s a Naseeruddin Shah film and you’ve to watch it to believe me but him & “only him” could do this role…There is NO ONE in the industry today (barring Om Puri) who can lug off this role with such alleviation and fervor…he was just staggering in the film…and so is Anupam Kher. The way he played the Commissioner of Police, you want to believe every word he is saying…rest of the cast is also alluring in their performances…
In spite of my inestimable attempts, I couldn’t find gaffes in the film, barring the fact that it wasn’t novel idea…Film has such radiant delicate touches which reside on you perpetually…my favorite out of those is the one where Naseeruddin Shah goes back to the terrace to collect the sack full of vegetables for his wife, which he forgot in scurry to escape from Police…These 5 seconds just stays with you forever and gives you such a subterranean insight of his character…you want to whistle, you want to stand and clap for him, you want to hug him…
I’m actually running out of words for this film…this is happening to me after really long otherwise I always have fathomless things to say about a film and that to by and large negative!!! But this film has clean bowled me from top to bottom…and this is because you’re more often than not exposed to films which are made with all heart and with no veiled agenda…I think the last such film was Taare Zameen Par and before that Swades…I can’t remember any other film in recent times which was made with such genuineness and candor…
And as far as rating the film is concern, there is no doubt it deserves 4 stars, one less for a NOT novel concept…
Thanks a mountain to Neeraj Pandey for giving us 100 mins of honesty, hard work, ardor and earnestness…Plz go and watch the film, you can’t afford to miss it…Hence I said "Any Given Day"...
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