Matru Ki Bilee Ka Mandola - Triple Review

MATRU KI BIJLEE KA MANDOLA - TRIPLE REVIEW

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Well, firstly from the trailers  i suspected  the movie  to be  not  so good or  to be  some  usual cliché.

But indeed  the movie  turned  out  to be  quite  something different and interesting, enjoyable  one.

Understood  something in the  last minutes  of the  movie..

We all are  Matrus, young people with knowledge, enthusiasm, and ambitions or can say Bijlees.  But especially in India we  see that our bijlees are  being pupated by Mandolas. And  we  often render  helpless infront of them. The Mandolas  aren’t that bad  either. In one  way or  the  other  they too are  working towards  the  same  goal of striving for  the betterment of the society, but its  those  times  when personal selfishness  takes over a socialist. The  only thing that needs  to be  done  in today’s India is  to just give a slight awakening to the  Mandolas (the top 1% of our population)and  the revolution that we all are yelling for  everyday can be  reached.

Coming to the  movie, once  again absolute pleasure in watching Pankaj kapoor  perform flawlessly.

HE was  just too good  in his  character, sheer master  at his  job. Imran khan too was  good  as  the  Matru, in a  different look and adopted  the village accent nicely. Also , though not being  such a huge fan of  Anushka  have to say that she  was  indeed a 3 phase current.! The  scene where  she  comes out of the  pond  was  just too hot..! And  cool tattoos  as  well.! She  tried  to do justice  to her screen space and  succeeded to quite a good  extent..! good  work girl!

The  screenplay written by sir Vishal bhardwaj himself  was  excellent. Great cinematography some  scenes  were  quite well captured and  also  great selection of  locations , Gujarat always  remains  the ideal place  for  such directors..! The  palace was  awesomely picturised.. Being from the  town of a palace and  knowing how  their  present  situation is, must say they did quite a hard work in showing the palace  way more  beautiful than the visitors witness on a  usual glance.!

A few  things  that added  to the  pleasure  were, the royal enfield  of  Matru, just awesome..!

secondly the field  and  the top from where they watch it..  Another  thing was  the entire  business vision which was  too good and was excellently shown .

Just felt that towards the interval and  for a time after it, there  was along phase  where neither  Matru nor Mandola  were  shown in their usual aspects which couldn’t be  accepted owing to the track of the film.  And “ MAO” was  quite predictable, instead  could  have  shown something better.

However, Sir Vishal bhardwaj did succeed in showing the  political and  corruptive faces  of  India in a Hat ke  style and  the movie has a really good sense  of humour as  and  when needed.!

And  lastly my fav dialogue from the film : “jab dil saandh ho na  toh har ladki bhains  nazar aati hain” :P :D

My rating : 3.6/5 

By the 70mm Faizal Khan - Sidharaj Jadeja

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Movie Review: Matru ki Bijli ka Mandola (2013)

IMDB Link:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106537/

Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj Starring: Pankaj Kapoor, Immran Khan, Anushka Sharma and Shabana Aazmi

An Open Letter to Actor Pankaj Kapoor

Dear Pankajsaab,

It was totally delicious to watch you as Mandola. And hence, after a lots of thinking about ‘to-whom-to-write-this-letter’, I decided upon you instead of director VB.

I have always loved your previous works like Dharm, Maqbool, The blue umbrella, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Jabaan Sambhaalke, Office Office and many many more, but this one is just so delicious.

The film is a weirdly funny take upon the politics of India, SEZs, farmers’ problems, villagers’ innocence, struggle of a royal industrialist about right and wrong, revolution of a young literate villager, masti of a bindaas young girl and many things more. The director talks all this serious issues with much more humorous ways compared to any previous intentional comedy movies.

From the starting only, the statutory warning sequence and song was hilarious. It’s the sarcasm at it’s best. Kudos to VB for that. And then your own revolutionary song against your self !! wah.. mazaa aa gaya… (TM: Divs Sir) and ending with the title song everything I found quite delightful.

My fav scenes were:

1.      Statutory Warning

2.      Revolution against own

3.      Gulaabi bhains

4.      African’s intro

5.      The well scene

6.      Plane jala to cigarette jala scene

7.      Shabaana’s speech regarding politics

8.      Mandola’s industrial dream

9.      Hooka’s city visit

10.  Rain breaking dreams

What I didn’t like was that there were some flaws, like why Mandola doesn’t notice Matru’s open support to villagers. Matru doesn’t disclose the Mao identity first to all villager’s and then doesn’t try to hide it post interval without any revealing sequences. Also Arya Babbar was quite annoying, could have been replaced. 

Other actors apart from You, Immran, Anushka and Shabana hadn’t much to do. Some sequences like Arya’s “Mao Mao” scene or Matru-Bijli’s swimming pool scene could have been avoided.  

Performance wise it was Decent Matru ki Okay Bijli ka Fabulous Mandola. I mean, Immran was quite decent, his role of revolutionary down to earth villager boy was cool, especially when he meets his city colleague, he became cooler. Anushka was good, but looking into her history of similar roles, she became okay. Arya Babbar as mentioned before, was crap. Shabaana was fantastic but it was you who took the cake in both Harry and Hariya's role. Yes, we love Hariya and hate Harry - and that's what you wanted.

Music by the director is well in tone with the movie theme, loved most of the songs. Lyrics by Gulzar is fantastic as well.

On the whole, it has some flaws, and on box-office, it’s not going to be magical at all, it’s not at all at par with your previous films also, but still it’s a good treat for couple of watches.

4.15 cheers out of 5 from me.

Regards,

The 70mm Raamadheer Singh - Hardik Raychanda

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Review:  Matroo ki Bijli ka Mandola

By The 70mm Sardar Khan (Urf Brijesh Raychanda)

Name the films of vishal bhardwaj and you will surely go to watch the movie same happened with us yesterday. Everyone in our home even my niece (who is only 8 year old) was excited to watch Gulabi Bhains on big screen which resulted in first day last show seats filled with us.  

Story:  Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola. (Courtesy to IMDB)

Movie was a good take on what happens with farmers in India because of politicians and Industrialists with funniest angle and with full of entertainment. Some scenes were hilariously funny while some were full of drama and social messages. Only Vishal Bhardwaj can do this.

Acting:  Hats off to Pankaj Kapoor. He has proved always his abilities in different roles in many movies and even in direction also he has done fabulous job (Yeah I am talking about Mausam. Don’t get me wrong, I just loved some of the scenes of movie not whole movie.:D :P). Everyone was waiting for him to turn into Mandola then Harry. His expressions, Dialogues, Voice, Tone, Body language was excellent and which made him irreplaceable.

Imran khan has managed his role very well. He was looking decent as Matroo (Hookam Singh). Cheers for your hard work. Anushka Sharma has given justice to his role. (Excluding his over-acted part when she was drunk and in swimming pool scene……Yo MAMA sucks…) Shabana aazmi was great in villainous role but still she needed more screen presence to prove her.­

Arya babbar was ok in starting but upto end he resulted in more than over acting. (About you I can say you are lucky that great directors like Maniratnam, Vishal Bhardwaj etc are giving you roles so do hardwork man….. Yo MAMA sucks more than Anushka.)      

Director:  Vishal bhardwaj tussi great ho..!!! (Inspired from God tussi great ho..!!). I loved your imagination of Mandola character it was excellent. From this movie you have proved that you don’t have to rely on others for the story. Don’t getting more words for you sir ji.

Story, Screenplay & Music: In story your work was appreciable. Screenplay by Abhishek Chaubey was really great as it was really tough job in this one. Music was mind blowing again credit goes to Vishal Bhardwaj. All songs were great (Excluding Lootnewaale song… still working on it.) In BGM, Shara-ra was great. Loved your Idea of introducing African music, It was great.   

Weak Points Of Movie:

There was no necessary to put Pen cho-Pen cho at all time whenever Mandola drinks…

Mao scene were also weak..

Operation Mao-Mao scene & Bijli-Matroo swimming pool scene were unnecessarily kept…

SpeciaL RequesT:

 Pankanj kapoor, please come more often in movies.

 Imraan khan, Do more hard work like this.

Anushka Sharma, You have done excellent dance in songs so do more excellent work in acting department also so “Hum dekh sake tumhe vo bhi Pyaar se..”.

Shabana Azmi, Love you in all movies please come often and more and more in villainous role.

Arya babbar, Act well as you acted in Guru.

Vishal Bhardwaj, No request just work more on the editing of your movie.

Favourite scenes:

Statutory warning scene…(Most hilarious and craziest scene)

Scene whenever Gulabo & Gulabi bhains were there…

Whenever Pankaj kapoor comes in Mandola’s avatar…

Kuve ko Cow tak pahochaane wala scene…

Shabana’s dialogue about country…

Factory visualization scene…

 Favorite Dialogues:

“Tumhe aise dekh ke pura gaanv raat ko vyayam kare se…”

“Oy jab dil sandh ho na, to har ladki bhains dikhti se…”

Last take on the review: GO TO WATCH PANKAJ KAPOOR, IMRAN KHAN, VISHAL BHARDWAJ, GULABO  & GULABI BHAINS

My rating – 4.05/5

(Must go for funniest and hilarious ride of GULABI BHAINS!!!)