Written by - Rituparno Ghosh
Cast - Amitabh Bachchan, Shefali Shetty, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Preity Zinta
Country - India [2007]
An eccentric theatre actor, Harry, is the gravitational centre of this film. He lives in a Shakespearean cocoon, shunning society and reliving the roles that he had played on stage. The film follows parallel story lines, one in which it is the night of a film premiere and the star actress has not shown up, choosing instead to visit an ailing co-actor. The other is where Harry is approached by a director, who convinces him to act in his film about dying art forms. The directors sense of realism in film brings the tale to a tragedy of sorts.
It is a slow moving piece making me think of the arts of puppetry, circus acts and even the theatre which future generations will only see depicted on the medium that killed them - film.
Based on a play by Uttpal Dutt, the film is notable for performances by Amitabh Bachchan and Shefali Shetty.
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