Review of LUDO |
With Rajkummar Rao, Abhishek Bachchan and Aditya Roy Kapur in one film, cine buffs were in for a treat as Anurag Basu`s film LUDO started streaming on Netflix. The backbone of any multi-narrative movie is the intersection of stories; the point of convergence where the world begins to close in on the characters. The first half-hour of Basu`s screenplay is remarkably structured that you almost revel in wonderment, given how little is established and how each scene acts as a predecessor with a central character interlinked to one of the four stories of Ludo. Bittu played by Abhishek Bachchan gets a redemptive arc when he finds a daughter in Mini, who restores the moral balance in his life. If Bittu is grappling with something internal, Akash and Shruti played by Aditya Roy and Sanya Malhotra, battle with external forces. Then there is an addition of a blue-tinted story with Pearle Maaney and Rohit Suresh Saraf. Rajkummar Rao plays a quintessential Bollywood hero, a soup boy, in an unrequited love with his high school sweetheart Pinky, Fatima Sana Shaikh. It is not that the story arcs of LUDO are exceptional, but the “extraordinary” circumstances in which the characters find themselves trapped and the way Basu evokes humor from their helplessness, are. The structure of LUDO is written with careful precision.
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