My Expectation
It was supposed to be a thriller, and having read the reviews earlier, calling it "slow", but praise for everyone's acting, my expectations were medium. I expected the story to be good, based on a Korean film. I expected good performances and acting from the 3 main lead characters. And I expected a relatively good narrative from the director.
My Review
The movie matched my expectation. Though not exactly that suspenseful or cringing, the story was well narrated. It deserved its 4 stars completely.
The acting by all the main lead characters was perfect as expected. Amitabh as the old guy, Nawazuddin as the retired cop turned priest and Vidya as the inspector working on it currently.
Spoiler Alert The story is about a grandfather who's grandchild was kidnapped and got killed in the process of saving her. How he plans on catching the kidnapper by weaving this enormous repeat scene of the kidnapping, for the actual kidnapper's grandchild this time. The perfect revenge. Spoiler End
The story is very well narrated and I wouldn't call its pace slow. The director captures the city, creates a story with the little he has and develops his characters toying with the audience's emotions and giving them that feel of "I understand" or "I would have probably done the same" kind of feel.
5 stars could have been earned if the story was little more wild. The whole thing is woven like something very awful happened, but it at the end, it wasn't truly that horrible. The audience came to be leaving the theatre shaken, but they are not. The villain was shown weak, his acting wasn't good, many times it seemed he was faking. Some scenes were unnecessary and some things portrayed seemed fake, such as the excessive talking by Vidya and Nawazuddin (more exchange of dialogues) and less actual working on the case etc.
But overall the film was a visual treat and with a good storyline portrayed beautiful. Deserving to the in anyone's movie collection and easily bags 4 stars.
How It Impacted Me
Well personally I don't see how it personally impacted me much, except seeing, that everyone is suffering from pain, some deeper than the other. But still overall, a sense of closeness with family and in relationships develops, such as wanting to be close to my wife in old age, having a granddaughter for my parents to play with etc, is induced from watching the movie.
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