Influences on Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy
Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver' entangled neck deep in the Mumbai Police - Politician - Mafia nexus at the end turns into Ramgopal Verma’s ‘Satya’ for redemption…that's Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy for me !
Zindagi (without ‘soul’) Na Milegi Dobara
After the release Farhan Akhtar on his tweeter account said, “It’s so fantastic that everyone loves the poems in ZNMD. Thank you pa for injecting soul into the film with your gifted hand.” Undoubtedly, poems recited by Imran and penned by his ‘pa’ ‘inject soul’ into the film, and it’s the poetry in the film which saves the film from becoming a clichéd story of three friends. The poetry in ZNMD certainly gives philosophical touch to the film Effective, extensive and exact usage of the poems and poetry recitation is quite a rare phenomenon in Hindi films. Largely filmmakers prefer poetry in the form of songs and hardly anyone thinks that poetry recitation can be used as an effective technique in the film. Indeed the poems in the film take the film to another level but my question here is, do really characters and their respective journeys in the film reach to the level of the messages which poems emanate? Do the characters in Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara inhale the same air which its p...
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