Nawazuddin, amore: le sceneggiature però vanno lette.
TRAMA
Ani è disposta a sposare chiunque le consenta di vivere all'estero, così può pubblicare le foto nei social e le amiche muoiono d'invidia. (I neuroni raggricciati vanno nell'umido).
RECENSIONI
Mid-Day: * 1/2
'This is a film about small-town India. As is just about every other Hindi movie (of late). It is placed within a middle-class household. (...) So is every other Hindi movie (lately). The genre is romantic comedy, I suppose. Which isn't true for movies starring the intense Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead role. He holds a deadpan expression throughout, going super subtle with his comic timing. Where do you go from there? Practically nowhere. The plot is pretty plain and simple. (...) How do filmmakers take this forward? They don't. They effectively put together pages after pages of dialogue in Bundelkhandi between a bunch of aunts, uncles, girls, boys, etc. Some of the lines are funny. Indeed the depiction of small-town life is quite accurate. The film is set in Bhopal, which is one of the best looking Indian state capitals I know. Except, the camera never steps out to explore anything, besides pacing between a couple of living rooms, bedrooms, and the aangan (courtyard). Pacing of the story itself is so slow, you could find yourself in the same scene for more than several minutes at a stretch. This could at best be a play. And that too, quite a boring one. No doubt, the performances are first-rate still. Why should it not be if the actors have Nawaz to match with?'
Mayank Shekhar, 16.11.19
Film Companion:
'Motichoor Chaknachoor is one such not-bad - and sometimes half-decent - film that stays refreshingly honest to its surroundings. (...) It does have someone as talented as Nawazuddin Siddiqui doing something as basic as an awkward talking-to-himself routine so that the audience knows exactly what a soup the hero is in. At one point he just chokes on his food and excuses himself from the table, almost as if the actor were excusing himself from a mismatched genre. The first hour of the film features all of those stereotypes - a noisy Bhopal locality, two motor-mouthed families, plenty of aunts and uncles and soft-spoken fathers bullied by over-dramatic mothers. (...) Some of it is tedious. But some of it is bearable, thanks to Siddiqui’s penchant for “body acting” - a brand of comedy in which an actor unsuited to a particular role elevates the genre by coolly parodying it. He uses our perception of “serious Nawaz” very well, in how he reacts to people or gets a jump scare or beats up his brother with a slipper. In turn, we react to Nawaz acting against type rather than Pushpinder being feeble and funny. He knows that he doesn’t have the accent or the gait, but there’s a physical self-awareness that compensates for the technical flaws. He has fun with the new language, proving that dramatic actors taking to light-hearted comedy can be just as effective as comedians attempting a dramatic role. The second half is where MC acquires an identity of its own. (...) Over the years, we’ve gotten so used to the quintessential middle-North-Indian Hindi film existing for a purpose - to carry a message, to address a social stigma - that it’s fairly nice to see ordinary characters striving to achieve ordinary goals instead of life-altering awakenings. There is no other agenda to this story. Girl and boy have to find a middle ground, and nothing but personality clashes and domestic politics will have to be dealt with. The film is well aware that this is a regressive region, and it operates within the frame of their cultural limitations. (...) There’s no reason for a film to exist only to correct society. (...) Fortunately, films like this one remind us that (...) not every script needs to be a statement'.
Rahul Desai, 15.11.19
Cinema Hindi: **
Punto di forza: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, sprecatissimo.
Punto debole: la trama veramente idiota.
SCHEDA DEL FILM
Cast:
* Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Pushpinder
* Athiya Shetty - Ani
Regia: Debamitra Biswal
Colonna sonora: Bharat-Hitarth, Ramji Gulati, Arjuna Harjai, Amjad Nadeem Aamir, Siddhart Amit Bhavsar.
Anno: 2019
GOSSIP & VELENI
* Athiya Shetty è la figlia di Sunil Shetty
* Non so se mi ha scioccato di più il film o la recensione di Rahul Desai.
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