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When I first saw the movie ‘Guide,’ I was enthralled by the arc of Raju, his catharsis, and almost a Valmiki’an transformation. It made me wonder – Why isn’t this adapted into an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie! Well, some people did try, and let’s just say that some layouts look good on architectural paper, but, in …
In theory this film should not work, the lead actor has only two significant expressions, a wide smile and a stumped look, the story is simple, the rest of the characters are heavily stereotyped, the climax is shorter version of Munnabhai’s radio sequence, most of the scenes and plot points seem to be heavily plagiarized, …
A historic life adaptation, a philosophical bhel, a downright time pass rom com, a cliched action , and a routine masala, were the flavors of the week.. starting from Hindi blockbuster, to a limited release Hinglish, to a mainstream Hollywood action flick, evened by so so Hindi comic run, and topped by a Marathi com-rom-emo …
