Sunday, November 16, 2014
I had decided not to watch this movie after Sahil Rizwan (of The Vigil Idiot fame... don't know Vigil Idiot? You are living under a rock) posted a nasty comment on twitter. "Thank God"; I thought. "Money saved". But then Anupama Chopra gave it 3 stars. AC is the most reliable reviewer there is. Even though she is married to Vidhu Vinod Chopra and so is connected to Bollywood, her reviews are unbiased. In the times of paid reviews she is an anomaly.
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Anurag Kashyap,
Ashutosh Govarikar,
Bedabrata Pain,
Delzad Hiwale,
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Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
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Vijay Verma
Friday, November 29, 2013
This has been on my must watch list for quite sometime. I finally downloaded and watched it.
The movie is set in 1929 in Chittagong (now a part of Bangladesh). It is based on facts. In fact, the protagonist- Jhunku (Delzad Hiwale/Vijay Verma) was alive when the movie was made. It is about the uprising in Chittagong led by a school teacher (Manoj Bajpai) and his band of young rebels (all below 18). They beat the British... not once but twice. Of course, they got caught. Manoj Bajpai is hung while the others are sent to Andamans (kaala paani) jail. On getting released, Jhunku takes up the cause again and in the process loses the love of his life.
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