The thing that I loved about this movie and that was its uncompromising approach to the material and its ability to keep the course despite things getting quite graphic, both visually and mentally.
In other words, these guys don’t let up until the very end and it’s a great thing to experience, even if things do go a little overboard nearing its conclusion . Another aspect of the film which connected with me greatly was its visual approach, which wasn’t as stylistic as you’d think, but included plenty of cool touches, particularly those between John and Sanjay. It’s a great shot and a defining moment in the movie. Another aspect that comes through very clearly in this film is its surreal nature.
Sanjay Dutt is brutally kidnapped in the sea by a stranger. The kidnapper [John] assassinates his wife {Celina}and plants the clues that incriminate him. Then, he releases his prisoner to the the term of 14 years of false imprisonment with only one goal : to find the reason he locked him up ?
Though the film feels hyper-naturalistic at times, but it works under the circumstances, especially after you yourself, experience the film’s first 10-15 minutes, alone in a room with a man losing his mind.
The actors are also all great, specifically Sanjay, who plays the man on the edge brilliantly, as well as John, who is just plain adorable. The film is not a one-trick pony either. It’s not just a matter of finding out why this act has been perpetrated upon this individual, but rather, once that’s done, understanding the underlying reasons for any human being to cause such pain/suffering onto another.
When you sit back and look at the big picture of the world, it’s a perfect metaphor for what seems to be a place in which people will take a small ripple in the water and allow it to grow bigger and bigger, until the small ripple is now of much greater meaning.
You gotta see what the characters in this movie do. Incredible and certainly the revolution of Bollywood into new height!