The Film Emotional Atychar

Indian cinema has evolved a lot in the last decade; the traditional image of everything is fast becoming irrelevant in this field, a reason could be, because, old school film makers who used to treat movies business like a road side food stall, have learned that their could no longer be a constant recipe for a hit movie as there is for a ‘vada sambhar’ or ‘idli dosa’.

I vividly remember, just after ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai’ released and became a smash hit, I saw a gentleman on television, who incidentally was the producer of Hrithik Roshan’s forthcoming movie, when a reporter asked him about the film, his reply was, “we have Hrithik, we have Amisha, what else we need”; Well I believe you needed a story, a screenplay, good music, beautiful treatment, nice performance, etc, etc. This is not a assembly line manufacturing. And if you still can not guess the movie in question here, I would not blame you, the movie was not worth remembering, its name was ‘Aap mujkhe acche lagne lage’. Turned out to be one of the most disastrous flops in Hrithik’s career.

However, getting back to our movie in question “The Film Emotional Atyachar” is the kind of movie Indian audience is watching due to changed paradigm in Bollywood. The new Bollywood, where people are not bound by budget, to make good movies. The ‘small budgeted movies’ with focus on stories rather than star cast.

The movie appears to be about random stories. About one man driving on a lonely highway who is confused about helping an injured man, the injured man who appears decent but is been shot by a bullet in stomach, another about two corrupt cops who are trying to extort a casino owner, and another one about a crook who is planning heist of a lifetime. The movie is non linear like pulp fiction or reservoir dogs. And slowly all the stories start to become interrelated.

It’s a kind of a noir movie with dark humor at appropriate intervals. The movie boasts of a very talented star cast, Vinay Pathak, Ranveer Shouri, Abhimanyu Singh, Kalki, Ravi Kishan and Mohit Athalawat (Please ignore the comment for this actor). The situations in the movie are not entirely unexpected but they keep your interest alive, the interaction between Ravi Kishan and his gang members is simply hilarious, the movie has a adult undertone but no way near to Delhi Belly. The movie deserves a watch from the people who like non regular cinema.

Rating ***.

New rating style with a qualitative statement:

1) Better knock your head to a wall for headache.

2) If no other thing to do, you Could Watch for time pass.

3) Some serious effort has been made to make the movie, you Should Watch

4) A good one, Must Watch.

5) Not watching this one is lose for you, not for the movie.