Saturday 21 November 2015

katyar kaljat ghusli

Katyar kaljat ghusli
Cinema par excellence!! Hats off to the vision and confidence of Subodh Bhave for pulling it off. No adjectives to describe this movie. What ethereal and divine singing by all the singers. It is a casting coup by Subodh Bhave to cast Shankar Mahadevan in a pivotal role. The Ganesh pujan song with which the movie starts off, is so devine. After one particular song sung by Shankar Mahadevan, the court audience is shown with tears in their eyes, they are so touched by the myriad feelings expressed through the song. I can tell you that, no acting is required here, the song does touch you to the core. Even I had tears in my eyes. Excellent singing by Shankar and beautiful sound arrangement and background score by Shankar, Ehsan, Loy. This film is their best to date.
And what can one say about the singing by Rahul Deshpande... He is incomparable and in a league of his own... No other singer comes near to him, he is so good...i don't know which singing deity resides in his body.
Mahesh Kale... Now where did this singing diamond come from...I personally had never heard him before. But his singing is Apratim.... Especially the climax song sung by him stays with you long after you have left the auditorium...
And who can forget Sachin.... Magnificent acting... Though he has always been known as a good actor, whether in his initial days with the Barjatya's , when he was , but a teen with cute looks or in some Amitabh movies like Satte pe Satta or in his later Marathi movies with Ashok Saraf and Laxmikant Berde, acting of this calibre was never seen before. How come this extraordinary talent of his was never exploited by any director before... Not even by himself. Whether it is his initial good and genial nature in this movie or the transition to a jealous and egoistical man, he is excellent. And the crowning glory of his acting calibre, is in the last climax scene, where he raises the katyar to stab the character played by Subodh Bhave in anger and in one fluid motion, his facial and eye expressions transform into one where he beseeches Subodh to continue singing for the rest of his life... You really feel for his character. Worthy of the highest awards on offer...
If you have not seen this movie yet, don't miss it... It will be surely an experience of a lifetime...
Yatin

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