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, …
Watching this series, I learned a new term, ‘limited-series.’ You see, we had two distinctions with stories on the screen, to begin with. One was at a three-hour-long format called the Movie. When stories were ‘too long to fit in a movie format, we had the serial — Typically, thirteen or twenty-six half-hour episodes telecasted …
Well based on the trailers, I thought Ranchi Diaries will be one of those films, called ‘Real Cinema’. Basically after Satya, and then popularised by Anurag Kashyap, the trend in ‘Real Cinema’ has come, which when interpreted by some lesser known people means: Usage of a local dialect, on-site shooting, lot’s of cuss words, blood, …