The new Ittefaq is certainly more sleek, coherent, in it’s storyline compared to the 1969 classic, After all, how does a suspected schizophrenic, an established murderer, allowed to roam with his own cigarette lighter. He is stripped of all possessions, is having jail like numbered clothes, even though he is technically in a mental hospital, …
Jazz drummer Andrew Neyman endures a brutal, sustained campaign of bullying and abuse, both psychological and physical, at the hands of Fletcher, the conductor of his conservatory’s prestigious studio band. He eventually washes out under the extreme pressure and, at the urging of his concerned father, anonymously gets Fletcher fired for abuse. In the end, …
The irony on the movie is that when Saif has a acid trip in the movie, a disclaimer pops up discouraging the use of narcotic and psychotic substances, however the movie seems to tilt towards saying, that acid trip is not that a bad thing, and probably is ‘an experience’. Kaalakandi is a Marathi term …