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Kangal Malsat (2013)
Comedically enticing with socio-political rhetoric
This is perhaps the first, and perhaps the only, Fyataru movie. The movie is quite frivolous by nature with extensive use of raw comedy in a subaltern backdrop. Fyataru-Choktor alliance does wonders throughout the film creating chaos amidst the higher society by hurling its anarchy-inducing voodoo. Throughout comical depictions of the state and perhaps the lower-class society as a whole, with its signature hilarious dialogue deliveries it paints a socio-political landscape that we are familiar with, yet are oblivious to it.
And, if you don't care about any of that, it can become quite the laughing stock. Although, my deepest regret is how the movie is presented by censoring out all the slurs, which kinda kills the feeling.
Tasher Desh (2012)
A surreal masterpiece
This film is, as you've already known by now, a "trippy adaptation" of Tagore's play. Though I've never read or seen Tagore's play, I'm sure that it retained the original sprit of his work despite such hurling of experiementalism.
The film intertwines a tale and reality together, which is a surreal experience giving off a lingering desire to "know more" about the protagonist.
The adaptation of the play part particularly is not just a remake of the original one but in itself an original creation with several other ideas fused in. The way paints 'the cards' as fascist is comedically stern, trying hard to maintain the weak binding of tyranny.
I'm not dissapointed with the sexual innuendos in the film. Though I don't think it is a vital part, but at the same time it is.
In essenece the film questions "the dogma", "the dogma" which is spoonfed to us, showing us that if we begin to question our beliefs, it leads to nothing therefore it is all futile. The nihilism is beautifully potrayed.
Nabarun (2018)
Pinnacle of Documentary
Nabarun is hard to capture in documentary, if not done correctly. This documentary completely nails it! It presents Nabarun as it is, with also fragments that give a glimpse of what his framework of story is.
It's definitely not a boring documentary and you must watch it.
Gandu (2010)
Non-inspiring rugged and raw
The unique feature of this film is that it shows no backstory of the protagonist nor his related characters and storyline is linear. The cuts are very aesthetic, atypical of traditional Tollywood cinema. Unlike a traditional movie, there's no social message or something like that. The devilish depiction of Kali that haunts him makes no sense to me. Also slangs are overused than they should be. The cybercafe girl talking with a man, was shown in a scene talking with Gandu or Gandu's lookalike whilst Gandu staring at her didn't make sense either. Frankly the prostitute meowing is a funny reference to the catgirl phenomenon in Doujinshi (Hentai) though I'm skeptic if the writer is aware of Anime/Hentai genre.