Surreale. Imbarazzante.
TRAMA
Raghu s'innamora di Zoya, poi la uccide, poi si vendica, poi muore. Non mi preoccupa lo spoiler: mica vorrete vederlo...
ASSOLUTAMENTE DA NON PERDERE
* La recensione di Rahul Desai (vedi sotto) è un capolavoro.
ASSOLUTAMENTE DA DIMENTICARE
* Marjaavaan.
RECENSIONI
Mid-Day: *
'Within all these physical challenges, it's the audience that needs most help - sitting through 136 minutes of essentially grand entries and exits of every character. Each scene is an earth-shattering moment - every line of dialogue bearing weight of a (...) hammer being hit on your head'.
Mayank Shekhar, 16.11.19
Film Companion:
'Director Milap Zaveri doesn’t bother with mundane filmmaking elements like transitions, cuts, continuity and beats. In fact, there is no such thing as a scene - the background score changes while the camera simply pans to another set of actions starting in the corner of the same frame. At one point, I could swear I saw the sun shining in half the frame and rain pouring in the other half. At times I believe Zaveri operates on a level so evolved that none of us are in a position to understand the purpose of his films’ anti-brilliance. Like those high-frequency dog whistles. (...) Marjaavaan cannot be serious. It cannot be possible that I was sitting in a preview show with sane-minded human beings who didn’t want to do something less painful with their life for 137 minutes. At best, it has the IQ of a blind pigeon. At worst, it makes Satyamev Jayate - Zaveri’s previous film - look like Schindler’s List in which Oskar Schindler thinks he is a German Academy Award. And that’s possibly the only compliment I can afford to a Milap Zaveri movie. He may have a point when he says that critics aren’t the audience he makes films for. But he would also have a point if he said that sharks or crocodiles aren’t his target audience either. In his films, for instance, nature is incidental: sand exists so that strong men can leave indentations in it with their footsteps, rain exists so that it can drench the bodies of item girls and grieving lovers, walls exist so that they can crack when heroes get angry, air exists so that bullets have a medium to fly through, sound exists so that it can fill the void between inane one-liners, and women exist so that they can either be mute, dead, sex workers or dancers (or sometimes all at once). (...) My point about Zaveri’s movies - written or directed. I long for the day he realizes that his dead-serious action melodramas are funnier than his crass comedies. The lack of self-awareness in these films is so baffling that it’s sad - everything is a defiant “mass” tool meant to spite the elite and trigger the worst primal instincts of Indian men. Everything is a reaction. But to call him a provocateur would be to acknowledge that these films are legitimate - even if terrible - works of art. For me, they don’t even qualify. This isn’t his voice; this isn’t a voice at all. This is an algorithm in search of the highest bidder. And hence, the final result is the same. Marjaavaan is just another brick in the unbreakable box-office wall. And a tragic reminder that we, as a nation, are the movies we watch'.
Rahul Desai, 15.11.19
Recensione integrale (vi consiglio di leggerla)
Cinema Hindi: *
Punto di forza: eh?
Punto debole: next?
SCHEDA DEL FILM
Cast:
* Sidharth Malhotra - Raghu
* Riteish Deshmukh - Vishnu
* Tara Sutaria - Zoya
* Ravi Kishan - il poliziotto
Regia e sceneggiatura: Milap Zaveri
Colonna sonora: Tanishk Bagchi, Meet Bros, Payal Dev, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Aditya Dev, Sanjoy Chowdhury.
Anno: 2019
