Talaash movie public review
At its best, it is a mature exploration of a most difficult emotional nuance, the intersection between grief and guilt. At its worst, it is as predictable and brainless as any of its competitors. It does not succeed, not uniformly any ways. It does something different, something “adult”. It does not take the tried-and-tested route to Bollywood success-the loud Punjabi comedy-romance or the teenybopper romance. Hyde bit of schizophrenic film-making if there was one.ĭespite its obvious and rather damning failings, “Talaash” still remains, in my opinion, miles ahead of the pack. Here is a film that takes so much care to get character and progression right (the difficult part) and then does such an amazingly slapdash job with its main story and premise (the easy part), almost as if someone took the beautiful “Dhobi Ghaat” and mixed it in with the execrable “Mela”, a Dr. “Talaash” recycles a plot as old as the hills and then, if that was not bad enough, telegraphs the final twist so many times before the end that one cannot but help “get it.” It’s almost tragic. Through music, acting and story-situations(there is deeply moving scene between the wife and her psychiatrist) this “reveal” is beautifully executed, making “Talaash” a searing study in pure grief, reminiscent of Mahesh Bhatt’s amazing “Saraangsh”.Īnd as beautifully as it does this nuanced “reveal”, it fails as spectacularly in its handling of the supposed twists and turns of its main thriller plot. As the layers unfold, the truth is revealed to be something totally different-it is the wife who clutches at hope while trying to move on and it is the husband who is caught in a downward spiral of self-loathing, teetering on the edge of insanity, refusing to let go.
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When the movie begins, the audience is introduced to the wife, emotionally unhinged, and the husband, stoic, sad but firmly in-control. Unlike most of its other 100-crore-wannabe contemporaries, it makes the effort to define a dramatic conflict, the tension between two parents as they try to cope with the loss of a child, each in their own ways. “Talaash” is rare in that it eschews romance in its formulaic pulpy form and instead walks the road less traveled, exploring grief in its raw intensity. Even lust (“jism ki bhookh”) is defanged and transformed into a pink syrupy love-goo (“pyar ka ehsaas), bypassed from the loins to the heart in a masterful feat of moral surgery. Thus melancholia has to stem either from the pain of separation between mohabbateins or from unrequited puppy-love. Other expressions of emotions, when and if they are shown, are almost always concomitants to love, “Pyar ke Side Effects”. Love fares even worse, that many splendored thing reduced to juvenile “oohing and aahing” of the Ishq-wala love variety, an over-the-top concoction of roses-and-chocolate hyper-romance which frequently requires multiple adjectives to (“Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat”) hammer in the “Kaheen na kaheen koi hai” lovey-loveiness. Anger is typically Sunny Deol snarling “Balwant Rai ke Tattu” (or Taate I forget which) or Amitabh Bachchanian “Aaj Khush to bahoot honge tum” angst. Even in this rather restricted palette, there exist little in terms of shades.
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Watch this space for the full review of Talaash.If you are an alien from outer space and your idea of humanity is formed solely on watching mainstream commercial Hindi movies, you could not be blamed for thinking that human beings are defined by two primary emotions. Here's hoping for a good answer to the puzzling murder!" Also Read - Trending OTT News Today: Bobby Deol's Aashram 3 release date, Bhagyashree's daughter to debut with Huma Qureshi in Mithya and more The movie is a murder mystery cum supernatural thriller as of now. Performances of Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukerji are decent, but not extraordinary yet. The mystery seems to start unfolding just before the interval. Our reviewer, who is currently watching the movie, texted us to say that the mystery of this puzzling murder tale begins to unfold as you approach the interval point. Also Read - Dance With Me song: Salman Khan gets Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif and others to groove with him – watch As the story unfolds, it turns out that it is not an accident but a murder. Talaash is the story of inspector Surjan Singh Shekhawat played by Aamir Khan who starts investigating a mysterious accident. Our reviewer who is currently watching this murder mystery messaged to tell us that this Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor starrer has more to it than meets the eye