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)
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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
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