A Wednesday

A WEDNESDAY

You know what the first thing I felt when I saw the movie….

FRUSTRATION

About the impotency of human capability, ah rather let me rephrase it as forceful insistence of impotency on human capability, either by our own selves or by some one who can.
Okay, there are 2 ways of writing abt the movies. Personally and professionally.
And please don’t judge me if I keep changing lanes.
And mind you, this isn’t a movie review or a rating column. Thankfully neither do I write eulogies nor news articles.
This is just abt an honest stream of feelings I have felt while I watched the movies or thought of after watching the movies. So be it pro or personal I would just rant it up all here.
Well, on a professional front, A Wednesday ought to be good. When you have 2 sooper actors like naseer and anupam, the movie itself is gonna be a milestone. And a tight screenplay and other friendly spiceups like jimmy etc to make the recipe more majedaar…what else one wants in his debut…. Honestly I don’t rem the director’s name at he point of writing this, but I can surely say he is in the lines of a good commercial director provided he doesn’t take himself for hella ego ride.
The story is impressive and right after the Mumbai carnage, it is much more relevant now. But the real best part that everyone really enjoyed is that hero isn’t a muscle ripping, testertone dripping male machismo but a feeble, old, mild speaking, irritated common man. And this common man had taken the Mumbai by its hair and make it kneel before him and answer for its complacent attitude.
No one wants a bhagat singh to be born in their house, but wants some martyr for the country whom they can talk about with bulging chests. Well. Way of the world! Hmm…

Well, the way jimmy is projected In the movie is damn interesting case of characterization. No words. Just pure cinematic intelligence.
I really liked it when the informer pees at the sight of this chap. And also the background score of jimmy is intersing. It adds more depth ot his character silently.

The other cop is also portrayed good minus some unnecessary scenes like “kya tume maut se dar hi officer..” I mean yeah as the point of movies, it sounds good to hear that…but it was stretching a li’l far.of course jut a li’l far.

The way director tried to convey the softer side of cops through the conversations with his wife, adds a realistic dimension to the uniform, which is rather being riddled with clichés and/or caricatures in movies these days.

The climax is well planned and well executed. The dialogues sound apt and necessary. We can actually see why Nasser and anupam are one of the doyens of the industry. They convey only half what they need to convey verbally. The other half is their body language. The tight stretched rubber band kind of tension is seen in anupam and that lazy anaconda kind of preparedness is donned by Nasser. Unless you are thorough with the nitty gritty, (honestly I don’t know if they did some homework) one can’t sleepwalk rather sleep with the characterJ.

On the whole, movie is a sleepwalk hit and I hope personally that people are smart enough to understand and accept this genre of movies. They are very much necessary and relevant to current bollywood stream which is choked with lot of muck.

On personal front, I could actually feel my throttle pumping seeing the frustration of naseer coz tats a personal feeling I was undergoing and its as if some one is putting words to my thoughts. If I can I wantt to personally rip each and every terrorist that they would love being dead forever.
But one thing that kept prompting again and again was How relevant was I to myself and to MY world? Wt is that I have given back for everything I have taken.
And probably this isn’t the right forum to discuss my personal views abt all that.. We shall have it some other time with a cup of coffee and a pinch of honest salt! : P

Enjoy the movie.