Director: sudhir misra
Execution time: 150 minutes
Based on the Semibiography of guru dutt
The film is set in the 1950s and 1960s and is more or less a tribute to the golden years of Indian cinema. In this film there are many small shots from different films made in the period. Now you might be wondering how different this movie is from many other movies that tried to depict the golden age period. This is unlike any other movie in this genre because of the harsh reality and truth in it. How the movie industry is so glamorous on the outside and shameless and full of injustice and betrayal on the inside.
Nikhat (Soha Ali Khan) is a beautiful dancer who is willing to do anything to be an actress, to be a star. She is forced to work with Prem Kumar (Rajat Kapoor), who is a superstar in his own right and, more importantly, has the entire film industry dancing to her music. She enters Zafar Ali Naqvi (Shiney Ahuja), an upcoming Urdu writer from Lucknow who has the potential to be one of the best writers of his time because he knows he’s that good. Zafar arrives in Bombay to try his hand at cinema and is encouraged by his best friend (Vinay Pathak), who is narrating this whole movie. To sum it up… Prem Kumar is someone who makes all the decisions, who has to act with him, direct his movies, write his movies, everything. Nikhat begins to think that Prem Kumar is using her as a puppet to satisfy her personal needs. Zafar makes her realize that what she is making of her is due to her own growing ambitions of being a great actress and therefore she has no one to blame but herself. Eventually, they fall in love and want to get married, BUT the marriage is called off when Nikhat realizes that she will have no value as an actress if she gets married. So, they live together and go about their personal lives.
Months later, Zafar gets the chance to direct his own movie based on this novel. When he asks Nikhat to make her film, she declines due to previous commitments. Every filmmaker has to make a movie when the producer is after him. Ratanbala (Sonya Jehan) was chosen by Zafar to play the female lead. The movie comes out but it wasn’t a success because he made a movie for himself, a movie he believed in, a movie about his life story. The events that followed were Zafar trying to come back after a while and the movie he made was called “Khoya Khoya Chand” based on the story of Nikhat, Zafar and Prem Kumar.
Sudhir Mishra has made a revolutionary film. Not because of the plot, but because of the way he portrays the character of Zafar as someone who wants to show the realities of life in the movies and not as someone who shows what happens in the movies is exactly what happens in life. . Few scenes are worth mentioning. When Zafar goes to Noni Ganguly, a great director of his time, when he realizes that Prem Kumar doesn’t want his story in the film. The quote above is exactly what he told Zafar. Another is the naturalness with which the director showed a premiere film in Bombay. It looked very realistic and made farah khan The movie premiere scene in his movie seems to be in a dream world. At no point in the movie will you get bored with any of the characters or the story. The movie will totally grab you.
Shiney Ahuja grows as an actor with each film. Since the character is from lucknow and is actually a lucknowi, he fits the role very well. Rajat Kapoor has done full justice to the role of star actor par excellence. Soha Ali Khan, after some stupid movies in his career, she has given his career the best performance much better than his role in Basanti Range. Sonya Jehan and Vinay Pathak have stuck to their character’s demeanor and did their best.
This film shows Indian cinema what it used to be and what it has to be.
