Originally Posted by Nerd
I went to the movie last evening and I should say I was impressed. This probably would be one of the best movies, if not the best, this year. These are the highs:
Acting: If you guys think that Abhishek was good in Yuva, watch Guru. He is outstanding. Right from the turkey scenes to the mindblowing climax, he is just too good. The hospital scene where he tries to console Manoj Joshi is a wonderful scene that had lots of scope to express his feelings and he did perfect justice to that scene. The next best actor in the movie is Mithun! Right from his introductory scene to the scene where he silently watches Abhishek who will be suffering with a paralytic attack, he is awesome. Perhaps this might be one of Mithun's best performances. The third best actor in the movie is again a surprise. Aishwarya Rai! This is her best performance till date, easily. She impresses everyone, especially in the hospital scenes and the court scenes. Another actor who impressed me was Maddy, he did his young journalist role to perfection. Two thumbs up to maddy as well. His confrontation scenes with Abhishek were really good.
Photography: Be it the sizzling mallika dance or the picteresque locations in the barso re song or the bombay (actually chennai) scenes, the camera is world class. Visual elegance almost comparable with a few Kubrick movies!
Music: All those ARR haters who keep cribbing that ARR cant come up with a good BGM, go watch Guru. Even I am not a fan of his BGM especially in emotional scenes but he just blew me away with his incredible music in Guru. The two bit songs, the jazz piece, the guru bhai piece, the music that plays when Abhishek is paralysed are mindblowing, to say the least.
Direction: Last but not the least, its Mani Ratnam's film. All the scenes have a MR stamp. The romance between Aish and Abhi reminds you of his previous movies (especially bombay) and the scene where abhi loads the polyester into that menon's house reminds you of nayagan but those scenes fitted the movie to perfection. The climax is his best so far, second only to nayagan. A fabulous ending to a great film.
These are the lows:
1. Vidyabalan/maddy romance ate up some 15 mins in the second half which was totally unnecessary.
2. The initial tussle between Aish and Abhi was made up just for the tere bina song and abhi did not even try to explain his stance on that matter.
3. What hapens to his brother in law ??
4. Dialogues, though powerful most of the times (especially the 5 minutes thing) was not so good in a few scenes.
Bottomline: Mani Ratnam is India's best director. Period.
P.S. This movie wont do good in the BO :oops:
