Review of film BHONSLE |
Far from the glitter and shine of typical Bollywood Cinema, director Devashish Makhija has painted the silver screen with a character so interesting yet simple that it keeps one glued to the screen. Bollywood film “Bhonsle” is a story of a retired Mumbai cop played by Manoj Vajpayee, an actor who is certainly at the epitome of art and parallel cinema. The film is co-produced by the actor, and is brilliant in terms of treatment and texture with Manoj keeping Bhonsle as close to reality as possible. The story is set in the recent past, when Mumbai was rocked by the wave of hatred against `outsiders` who come to the city for work from the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The film was released on the OTT platform SonyLiv. The film shares the plight of the victimized community and how politics thrive on such agendas. The film begins on the eve of Ganesh Chaturthi, which also is Ganpat Bhonsle`s last day of the long tiresome service as a cop. How this old man gets caught up in the fight of right versus wrong, and how he tries to bring justice to the victimised community, is the cinematic beauty that unravels slowly in the film. Bhonsle is an inconsequential face in the crowd in a heartless city, in a way, a comment on Mumbai itself, and by extension on every big city, where for every dream that is fulfilled there are tens of thousands that are thwarted.
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