The play of light, shadow, effects and even the background music adds to the confusion of the script. Things are just happening, dialogues are just being delivered and amidst all the very-slowly unfolding melodrama, the female protagonist is “unnaturally” omnipresent.
We watched Bhootnath over the weekend, but I decided to wait for a couple of days to write an unbiased review. Though I have no qualms about saying that this 2-hr flick was entertaining in the first half, I still don’t feel confident about recommending the movie to someone. Maybe the easiest way out is to [...]
This is the biggest success of the script writer, who managed to weave the threads of hope and peace in a movie that is primarily about fear, desperation, dejection, mental and physical trauma, and also the sad plight of women.
Literally and metaphorically …
Literally, because the movie rambled on and on for three hours and eternity.
Metaphorically, because the movie-makers asserted that the love-influence of the Jodha impacted Muhgal politics for posterity.
Fact, or fiction, true love or political game, the first concern that the movie invoked in me was not regarding the historical sources or [...]