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| PANKH
MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Abhijeet Vaishnav |
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Starring:
Bipasha Basu, Maradona Robello, Daya Shankar
Pandey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Lillete Dubey,
Amit Purohit.
Direction:
Sudipto Chotopadhya
Music:
Raju Singh
Production:
White Feather Art House Films |
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Sanjay
Gupta is often known for his inventive
stories and concept with movies like Woodstock
Villa, Dus Kahaniyan and Kaante that has
failed miserably at the box office most
of the times. Yet again he takes the challenge
to green lit a project that is innovatively
disastrous.
The over utilization of art and experiential
movies have led this to disaster where
in the name of these, a film releases
in theater which just whiskers away in
a day or two. Pankh is a film, which goes
out of the box to disturb your mind with
it’s bizarre concept.
Pankh is a film about a boy who is confused
about his sexuality due to his disturbed
childhood. Jai, a boy, who grew up as
a girl to meet the film industry requirements
of a child actress. The mother forces
Jai to become Jerry due to which Jai is
confused about his actual gender and he
is referred to as transsexual. This confusion
carries
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forward with his life when he grows up and his mom
forces him to become a boy to act as an actor. Nandini(Bipasa
Basu) is supposedly an angel who keeps entering into
Jai’s life to make him realize what he is. Jai
keeps trying hard to prove his sexuality that he is
a man and have Bipasa in his life. Jai lands up in
various troubles in his life because of this turbulence
of thoughts where in he is repeatedly forced to think
about his childhood. Jai tries hard to overcome this
challenge and finds no solution to his problem.
The film genre belongs to art and drama where in there
are several moments in the movie where in effective
use of light and visuals are used to convey the dark
messages in the film. This could have been backed
up with some good script, which could have supported
the film. It requires sheer talent of the audience
to understand the movie and put their thoughts at
place. It seems that the Director, Sudipto has made
the film to satisfy his own desires rather than thinking
about the people on the other side of dice. Instead
of knowing what works and what not in the film industry
seems to lack in the film makers head and thus there
is wasting of resources and time of the audience.
Pankh manages to show some grey moments like the lustful
casting director and how parents force the kids to
suit their demands. But this doesn’t prove the
credibility of the film and what it intends to convey.
The characters did have a slight essence in the movie.
Lillete Dubey plays the role of a screeching mom aptly.
The acting by the debutante Amit Purohit is plain.
Bipasa Basu with her devilish make up is humorously
scary and her acting is not worth mentioning and her
performance is disappointing. The cameo played by
Mahesh Manjrekar is classy adding to some funny moments
in the movie.
The screenplay drags throughout the movie and makes
no sense. The dialogues add to further irritation
with desperate attempt to use abusive language to
make it look like an ‘A’ rated movie.
The cinematography by Somak Mukherjee is ‘weird’.
The patients’ suffering from spondylities will
have some tough time watching this film as you have
to tilt your head most of the time to watch a scene.
Editing by Sanjib Datta and Bunty Nag is commendable
esp. during the flashback. Effective use of VFX and
lights has been used to describe a particular scene.
The background score and music by Raju Singh is very
contemporary at a wrong place.
Pankh falls out of place and is a not a disaster,
it’s a catastrophe and holds absolutely no credit
for the audience and the critics to appreciate.
Verdict:
‘Pankh’ is not flying too high
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