Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Don’t review just for a heck of it. Of late, though, they seem to be getting typecast and are playing minor variations of the same characters again and again. There are two more story threads: Bittu’s (Abhishek Bachchan) is in red, and the Alu (Rajkummar Rao)/Pinky (Fatima Sana Shaikh) track in green. In an interview with Mid-Day, Basu told why Govinda was fired from the movie. LUDO is such a deceiving and a bad movie at the same time that it is improbable to believe that it’s an Anurag Basu film: A person/artiste who has gone through the physical and emotional pain of enduring cancer would have greater sensitivity and insights into the human emotional-core. While talking about the collaboration, Anurag said, “Ludo with Bhushan Ji was an easy and smooth collaboration. Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Richa Chadha, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia. Glad to finally see this review from you! Anurag had launched Kangana's career back in 2006 with 'Gangster'. Bejoy Nambiar’s direction (story written by himself, Kartik R. Iyer, Anjali Nair and Gunjit Chopra) triumphs even the good performances by the show’s leading cast. He directed television serials, trying genres ranging from daily soaps to thrillers such as Saturday Suspense and Ajeeb Dastaan, and horror (X-Zone). Basu began his television career as an assistant director on Tara in mid 1994. After six months, he was given full responsibility for directing about 712 episodes. I loved it. This was a fresh take and deserves an applause. Basu directed television serials among which is Tara (1993), which became one of the first soap operas on Indian television. The Anurag Basu directed movie is jointly produced by Anurag Basu and Bhushan Kumar’s ‘T-Series’. This girl is good. Anurag Basu's 2017 film Jagga Jasoos made headlines for all the wrong reasons. 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When you have last seen mallu nurses working in the Hindi heartland in a Hindi movie? Malang was for lack of a word a trippy affair. Why not the ups and downs-filled Snakes & Ladders, of which, you could similarly say: Life is Snakes & Ladders. Based on the life of Subedar Tanaji Malusare the film was made a huge scale and starred Ajay Devgn, Kajol and Sharad Kelkar in pivotal parts. He also directed Balaji Telefilms' Koshish Ek Aasha (1997) and ... See full bio » Oscar Winning Actress Halle Berry Shares Heartbreaking History Of The Prestigious... Brie Larson AKA Captain Marvel To Play A Disney Princess? Vikram s: “Not one word on the performances of Rajkumar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi..”. May not be exact words to this extent). BR — Pretty disappointed with your review this time. "Each night, we look up [social media] to see the responses. Top of that, people got to watch this one in the theatres and it enhanced the experience. Unlike the older films (which were broader), these newer narratives are after very specific beats from mythology. Film became massive hit. All in all, I found it very entertaining (but I am a cerebral kinda guy), and maybe the most-fun any Hindi movie gave me in 2020 (maybe Kaamyaab came close, but that’s it). He’s also the “dice”, whose every move affects red and yellow and green and blue alike. It essentially is Life in a Metro with a comic twist. I have seen enough of their movies to know that they are truly good actors with a wide range. This is a film that works better in the head. Perhaps one can find a Draupadi inference here! While the team of a […] I thought the performances were all good, and Sanya Malhotra continues to impress me with each of her outings. Still looking for that riveting OTT only release and I can feel my beard growing grey as I wait! (Gangster, Metro, Barfi, Jagga Jasoos & now Ludo). I think they’re the combo to beat in Hindi cinema right now. Votes: … It’s Lallan Singh looking for redemption, which didn’t turn out that well, I agree. Trust me your explanations don’t go with your review. Ludo is death. Ludo was a ride no one expected it to be and a nerve-wracking one. At one point, the frame splits into four, each one coloured by a Ludo colour. The others pretty much did what they’ve been doing for a while, no? Ranbir Kapoor-Katrina Kaif's 2017 musical Jagga Jasoos had stirred a controversy during the time of its release when director Anurag Basu fired Govinda from the film. She also two films ‘ Dhaakad ’ and ‘ … The hashtag #Hinduphobic_AnuragBasu was trending on Twitter Friday with more than 30,000 tweets. Tanhaji released in January 2019 and was a complete masala entertainer in all the real sense. There is a metro-centric plot involving ARK and Sanya Malhotra; Rajkumar Rao and Fatima represent the small town lovers; Abhishek Bachchan’s plot, believe it or not, is a continuation of his character from Yuva. The quirkiness of the film almost hides the fact that Ludo is a very female-centric film. By Masala.com Reporter Created: 5 … Here, watch the official trailer of Ludi Movie:- Copyright ©2021 Baradwaj Rangan. We all have our off days…. No, not Shaam dhale khidki tale. Rohit expressed that the thought of being directed by Anurag Basu and working with such a huge cast was indeed tempting. And Pearl was brilliant, I thought.. Re: Rajkumar Rao’s performance- while the reciting of menu was from Stree, I felt he was able to show the hopeless love situation he was in. Meanwhile, up next for the ‘Tanu Weds Manu’ actress is the biopic ‘Thalaivi’ in which she will be seen in the titular role of J. Jayalalithaa. Basu… Scroll down to know and don’t forget to vote. Along with his signature cinematography & otherworldly music, Anurag Basu adds yet another masterpiece to his filmography. Ranbir Kapoor faced his career's biggest flop and the film even failed torecover its reported Rs 130 crore budget. . He knew Fatima is exploiting him because he can’t say no to her for anything… Jailbreak even…, Re: Tripathi, I remember what you had written about Nawazuddin Siddiqui… To paraphrase… You’d said about’ what is Nawazuddin going to do next’ since we had seen all that we had to see… Something similar is happening with Tripathi… He is trying to find niches to showcase in same old bad guy roles that come to him again and again…, My favourite dialogue of the year came from this movie: “Sawaal poochte ho Jalebi ki tarah. His 2017 release ‘Jagga Jasoos’, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif was in new for the longest. Others sound funny when you hear the one-line in your head, but on screen, they don’t land. Ludo movie review is here. Aur Jawaab mein chaahiye Kalaakand?” ( I am typing this from memory. https://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/an-jo-on-ludo/, Ohhh… I was waiting for your review of the film and am sad to realise it didn’t work for you. @Anu Warrier Loved the man’s thigh mounted gun, worn under a black lungi :-). Basu's most successful work during this period was the Balaji Telefilms soap Koshish ...Ek Aashaain 2000 and he made pilot episodes of Indian television shows including Kyun ki saans bhi kabhi bahu thi, Kahan… And each of these “love stories” comes with a complication, mostly in the form of Sattu (Pankaj Tripathi). The movie got more boring as it went along, apart from its “moments”. Starring an ensemble including Abhishek Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Pankaj Tripathi, Rohit Saraf and others was a treat we deserved. He says his films are ‘non-political’, well, with Thappad the filmmaker went personal. If you’re going to criticise, you should give evidence to back your criticism up. Some incidents are howlarious, like that green-door bathroom bather who just won’t die. I know this isn’t about logic. That’s the nutshell of Anurag Basu’s latest “you may not like the film as a whole but, by the end, I dare you not to look at it with grudging respect” exercise. 2020 ‘लूडो’ Directed by Anurag Basu Synopsis Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. A link to this URL, instead, would be appreciated. BR, He’s a small-time gangster. Ludo Movie Review: Direction, Music. Must Read: When Javed Akhtar Reacted To Son Farhan Akhtar & Shibani Dandekar’s Marriage Rumours: “Children Can Be Very Secretive”, Follow Us: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube, Where Schitt’s Creek made us all shed that happy tear, The Queen’s Gambit brought us to the edge of our seats. 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