Movie that became a CULT for me, before its release!
Yes, you read it right. Though CULT, as a term is way too substantial, for a movie which I haven’t even watched yet, I confess that just the trailer of this movie has seeped into me terribly, so much that it is already a Cult movie for me.
One might find this over exaggerating, but trust me, as a Cinephile what intrigues me while watching a movie is the Hyper realistic treatment given by the maker in every way to his/her film. To make it simpler, if I’m watching a movie in the Dark-Room, and don’t feel like to smoke a cigarette in the interval- that means it had engaged me enough. After exiting the Dark-Room if I feel sad, that the movie ended – by now I have loved it. But if it made me long to watch it repeatedly for days & months, then not only I’m in love but so obsessed that I start believing its story & characters are the part of this real world. Movies and everything in it, has such an impact on me - It gives me a terrific high!
It wasn’t the title of this film but the director, I was instantly excited about when I read it’s his film. Vasan Bala – now y’all & also him (if he happens to read, luckily) might say this “ki lappet raha hai..” that I consider myself as his Fan. I first came to know about him when his name appeared on celluloid during the opening credit scene of Raman Raghav 2.0, along with Anurag Kashyap as Writer. Now I never used to pay attention to these details every time I go to watch movies but there’s a short story to it. I watched 2.0 on my friend’s cellphone who downloaded it on the next day of it’s release- I swear on Each and Every GOD that I never did that before, I sincerely hate doing that but I didn’t have an option back then, coz’ the place where I live they hardly screen any off-beat movies and if they, then one has to buy all the 11 tickets to please the norms of the Movie-Hall for ‘em to play it in the DarkRoom for you, coz for sure nobody else will watch it.. I remember the glorious time when Black Friday released & I watched it with the canteen guy, toilet cleaner & the Box-office guy. Kindly excuse me- it went hay-way.. so that evening we both were watching 2.0 and literally finished a bottle and a half of Whisky and 3 packs of cigarettes. I’m not kiddin’, we were trying to understand by rewinding each and every scene in every 13-14mins, trying to listen properly then analyze the chapters, connect the characters, well to put it in a simple way, we were fuckin’ blowned out! The most intriguing element in 2.0, for me was the Language used by Ramana, throughout the film and it was pretty much evident that to execute certain things through an actor, location, prop, music, one must have had witnessed or lived that moment in order to make it so believable. Now I don’t know if he has written the dialogues too but he has co-written the story and it has his influence in it’s own way. In 2.0 there is a scene when Ramana visits his old friend (Madrasi) and asks if he can get him a rod, while having this conversation the friend- Madrasi mentions about a film called Angadittharum, he had taken the kids to watch few days ago and mentions the director’s name which to me sounded like ‘Vasanth Bala’ and then instantly after finishing the movie I searched for ‘Angadittharum Vasanth Bala’ on Google and it was about reply with cuss words that something drew my attention- VASAN BALA- known for Peddlers…. Following that I searched him on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook. I downloaded his interviews and watched & listened ‘em thoroughly- I strongly feel there’s something very analogous, about him, to the that of someone I know in my neighborhood, or someone I grew up with who talks & has the same kinda sense of humor. For instance, in an interview on Youtube: Shooting with Kashyap | Making of RR 2.0 - Episode 1 when Tanvi Gandhi says she was Blown away by the story and instantly Vasan tease her looking at the camera in such a subtle way without interrupting her from saying further, the action which locally known as ‘Phenkna’ or ‘Lappettna’. The first thing I searched was his Short Film, which I do for every director I discover that exists, and found ‘Geek out’ – which is still I say this to most of the sensible people I know, that if we take an excerpt from the life of Travis Bickle it would be this one, but I confess that I didn’t & hadn’t understood the climax yet but struggling. Geek Out has so much in it, that it clearly depicts that to what extend this Man must have in is head to show the world, it was ahead of it's time, but this time.. Jagah bhi sahi hai, aur Waqt bhi!
It wasn’t the title of this film but the director, I was instantly excited about when I read it’s his film. Vasan Bala – now y’all & also him (if he happens to read, luckily) might say this “ki lappet raha hai..” that I consider myself as his Fan. I first came to know about him when his name appeared on celluloid during the opening credit scene of Raman Raghav 2.0, along with Anurag Kashyap as Writer. Now I never used to pay attention to these details every time I go to watch movies but there’s a short story to it. I watched 2.0 on my friend’s cellphone who downloaded it on the next day of it’s release- I swear on Each and Every GOD that I never did that before, I sincerely hate doing that but I didn’t have an option back then, coz’ the place where I live they hardly screen any off-beat movies and if they, then one has to buy all the 11 tickets to please the norms of the Movie-Hall for ‘em to play it in the DarkRoom for you, coz for sure nobody else will watch it.. I remember the glorious time when Black Friday released & I watched it with the canteen guy, toilet cleaner & the Box-office guy. Kindly excuse me- it went hay-way.. so that evening we both were watching 2.0 and literally finished a bottle and a half of Whisky and 3 packs of cigarettes. I’m not kiddin’, we were trying to understand by rewinding each and every scene in every 13-14mins, trying to listen properly then analyze the chapters, connect the characters, well to put it in a simple way, we were fuckin’ blowned out! The most intriguing element in 2.0, for me was the Language used by Ramana, throughout the film and it was pretty much evident that to execute certain things through an actor, location, prop, music, one must have had witnessed or lived that moment in order to make it so believable. Now I don’t know if he has written the dialogues too but he has co-written the story and it has his influence in it’s own way. In 2.0 there is a scene when Ramana visits his old friend (Madrasi) and asks if he can get him a rod, while having this conversation the friend- Madrasi mentions about a film called Angadittharum, he had taken the kids to watch few days ago and mentions the director’s name which to me sounded like ‘Vasanth Bala’ and then instantly after finishing the movie I searched for ‘Angadittharum Vasanth Bala’ on Google and it was about reply with cuss words that something drew my attention- VASAN BALA- known for Peddlers…. Following that I searched him on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook. I downloaded his interviews and watched & listened ‘em thoroughly- I strongly feel there’s something very analogous, about him, to the that of someone I know in my neighborhood, or someone I grew up with who talks & has the same kinda sense of humor. For instance, in an interview on Youtube: Shooting with Kashyap | Making of RR 2.0 - Episode 1 when Tanvi Gandhi says she was Blown away by the story and instantly Vasan tease her looking at the camera in such a subtle way without interrupting her from saying further, the action which locally known as ‘Phenkna’ or ‘Lappettna’. The first thing I searched was his Short Film, which I do for every director I discover that exists, and found ‘Geek out’ – which is still I say this to most of the sensible people I know, that if we take an excerpt from the life of Travis Bickle it would be this one, but I confess that I didn’t & hadn’t understood the climax yet but struggling. Geek Out has so much in it, that it clearly depicts that to what extend this Man must have in is head to show the world, it was ahead of it's time, but this time.. Jagah bhi sahi hai, aur Waqt bhi!
I love credits in the movies, they somehow becomes very important for me and I developed this love for it I guess, since I was 6 or 7 & watched the SUPER STAR RAJNI title cards with the terrific BGM in the theatres. Similarly I love the titles created on the Posters, though we don’t get to see much of ‘em on walls but on screens, I still love it. In a constant process of reading about him & following him on Twitter, I came across the news few days before MAMI 18’ through a friend that the opening film will be MKDNH.. Mard ko dard nahi hota!.. I was sold to the title and, I was super excited. I read about the movie in bits & hardly could know anything about it. As it doesn’t have a big star cast, known director and I think the only thing known associated with this movie was RSVP, baad me goggle karlena! And also could be, Gulshan Devaiah from Youtube while searching for Riccha Chadda hot scenes (Cabaret) or probably for Hunterr.
The time came for registrations for the Festival, I lost my job, couldn’t take a vacation and missed the opportunity. I missed it badly coz I knew it will take months for it have a proper release and lil’ did I know then, that I’d be constantly keeping a track on anything about the movie on social media. Tagged the man himself, Gulshan Devaiah, Abhimanyu.. checked for #MKDNH and this I have done so far only for Rajinikanth’s & SRK’s Movies and never thought would be so impatient & crazily excited to watch someone else’s film, whose only work I have seen was a short film, random interviews, splendid acting skills in Taxi Driver and the Don & as Aakhri Dus sir wala Raavan. Mere liye itna kaafi bhi hai aur zaroori bhi, to become a fan of this Man.
But the only thing that whose film it was, made me terribly excited.
The time came for registrations for the Festival, I lost my job, couldn’t take a vacation and missed the opportunity. I missed it badly coz I knew it will take months for it have a proper release and lil’ did I know then, that I’d be constantly keeping a track on anything about the movie on social media. Tagged the man himself, Gulshan Devaiah, Abhimanyu.. checked for #MKDNH and this I have done so far only for Rajinikanth’s & SRK’s Movies and never thought would be so impatient & crazily excited to watch someone else’s film, whose only work I have seen was a short film, random interviews, splendid acting skills in Taxi Driver and the Don & as Aakhri Dus sir wala Raavan. Mere liye itna kaafi bhi hai aur zaroori bhi, to become a fan of this Man.
TIFF ka trailer: I can bet my one month’s hard earned salary if you prove me wrong, that has anyone ever in India has seen or made this kind of TRAILER? It’s fuckin’ so so so so BRILLIANT! This showed his creative genius and proved me right with myself. I was taken aback when the video started on youtube- the Geraftaar VHS, The Hero saying dialogues looking the camera, the Bulb, the metal Ladder, the slow movement of the blood from forehead, the sipping from Water bag pack, the Punch and the Mayhem! It is so creative and detailed that I fell in love with everything I saw in that trailer, I watched it so many times that if Youtube had an option to increase the views of a video based on the number of times watched by an individual, TIFF ka trailer would have been still Trending.
Oh the slow motion shot of Radhika Madan sliding over the top of the car’s trunk, holding someone’s neck with her scarf, gave me goosebumps. Thurman in KillBill abhi feeki lagti hai, Supri, for me already outdid TheBride. Abhimanyu’s one specific shot of Kicking in the air is stupendously killa, and his sheer innocence can be clearly seen in everything he does.
They saved Gulshan’s magic for the later which is evident in the Official Trailer released a week ago and has more than 6m views already, which I’m truly very happy about as now more people know about the film & more people will watch and Vasan Bala can earn more money for the producer so they allow him to make another masterpiece and it goes on like this.
Oh the slow motion shot of Radhika Madan sliding over the top of the car’s trunk, holding someone’s neck with her scarf, gave me goosebumps. Thurman in KillBill abhi feeki lagti hai, Supri, for me already outdid TheBride. Abhimanyu’s one specific shot of Kicking in the air is stupendously killa, and his sheer innocence can be clearly seen in everything he does.
They saved Gulshan’s magic for the later which is evident in the Official Trailer released a week ago and has more than 6m views already, which I’m truly very happy about as now more people know about the film & more people will watch and Vasan Bala can earn more money for the producer so they allow him to make another masterpiece and it goes on like this.
Official Trailer: It starts with terrific witticism, a fabulous satire on everything conventional about movies in few words and it also follows with the similar BGM of every trailer we have been watching in the recent times, but not for very long and the rest y’all know. And for the ones who doesn’t even know what you are reading about you probably must be living under a rock or khoparkhairane, coz only those places the internet doesn’t work. Haha copy kiya yeh line! Fuckin’ I think I can write a book about the Trailer itself, I’m so engrossed in it and excited for tomorrow (The day of it’s release). Again I loved each and every thing in this trailer and since it has more to offer, it became a routine since a week. I watched and made few others watch it everyday for 15-20 times, while going to office and returning, while drinking beer then toh I watch it for 50times coz fuckin’ visually it’s so terrific that the BGM & the songs make it even more terrific 100000times. His #MatungaConnection in the dialogue “eh Matunga ke Ferozkhan” (gaar or khan m not sure), Surya drinking water from a Jug, Karate Mani’s disguised look at Surya in the lift exactly after posing to fly up to the top floor taking him along, as I mentioned I could write a book now. But truly I’m very much excited to watch KarateMani & Jimmy, amongst all coz I truly find Gulshan Devaiah, an effortlessly brilliant actor. There’s a certain way he says a dialogue, or speak in an interview, I saw his TedTalk also, that showcases his jest for the subject and manners of quip is something very unusual & way beyond unconventional for us Indian audiences. When I see that scene in the trailer where he says “Eh Eh itna chillane ka kya zaroorat hai, residential area hai, chup chup karo!” it makes me feel that he was the only one chosen to do this or rather born to do this and no one ever could have done the way he did. Now if you think yeh abhi zyada hogaya, just understand or atleast try to that now as most of us cannot imagine anyone else as GabbarSingh, Mogambo, VijayDeenanath Chauhan than whom we have watched portrayed and enjoyed or for that matter as many say & believe that no one could have ever done the AC scene better than Amir Khan in Rangeela, exactly with that scene & his appearance throughout the trailer it got registered in my mind that Gulshan Devaiah was born to play ‘THE JIMMY’ and will remain like that forever. For Karate Mani I will wait for tomorrow as I want to be surprised.
The soundtrack.. all the songs are on loop so it says all.
Every frame, every dialogue, every bit of music.. everything I saw in the trailer, is OUTSTANDING. Everything I read in the blogs, heard in interviews, saw in footages of MidNight Madness and everything associated with this film, so far, has created enough curiosity & excitement to watch the film but more than that every thing so far about this movie has manifested the facts of true hard work, belief & patience each one of ‘em had to make this dream of one man come true and this had made this film already a CULT, for me, before it’s release.
Thank you everyone involved to make this happen coz this is a Gift for beings like me, which shall be enhanced & treasured forever, till Cinema lasts and beyond that!
L O N G L I V E C I N E M A..
H A I L, V A S A N B A L A!
