In the early scenes of Yeh saali Zindagi at Rogers Funeral Chitrangada Singh with tears in her eyes mourning her near ones death with anger in her voice asks Irfan " why are you here"? He explains to her and convinces her to get the thumb impression of the dead person in the coffin. She slowly walks to the corpse, looks towards the corpse, with tears flowing she returns back to khan and asks him with very mournful expression in a angry voice " wheres the stamp pad".
In another similar shot a shooter was ordered to kill kuldip who was out of Gang to lead a happy life. But in sudden twist the order was cancelled. Now attempts run in a chaotic manner to stop shooter who already took his aim and alas he is unable to hear any one with ear plugs in. The shooters cousin brother reaches opposite building and valiantly tries to stop the shooter. unable to communicate the brother informs the higher he cannot stop the shooter as he is not listening. The higher up asks the shooters brother to kill the shooter before he kills kuldip. The shooter brother refuses citing relation and as more price is offered he starts bargaining and once a price is reached, wiping tears, he shoots his shooter cousin.
After a long time I happily lived a film. I sat to write this review and started to recollect what i saw. But what a difficult exercise was that. With different locations, innumerable purposeful characters, stirring music , best editing and screenplay and lively performances by the leads Yeh Saali Zindagi is the best film after a long time.
Story of two Individuals ( one a CA and another a gangster )caught in love and desperation YSZ showcases opportunism, humanity , love , betrayal, and evil in best of the shades.
The dialogues are the best in recent times. They carried humour in the most intelligent manner.
The track of Irfan khan and chitrangada was dark with the lady searching for permanency and the man ready for anything for her.
The track of Kuldip ( Arunoday singh) and his wife (aditi rao ) was fiery love with wife hitting the husband for his ulterior ways.
Between these two tracks the director weaves a web of characters. If you wink , turn or pause you will miss the links. After Oye lucky Oye we have some one here who makes us to follow him without a break. And what a journey with twists and surprises laced with emotions and thrills. I guarantee you a ride of life time with this movie.An Indian answer to Quentin_Tarantino.
Irfan showcases his talent as Arun. His looks and voice will haunt you for a long time. Arunoday singh delivers a cool performance. Chitrangada makes you feel the way the leads feel for her on the screen. Every actor in the film had his presence.
Kudos to Sudhir Mishra who made this film
Go for this ride. If not you missed a very good film.
thnx for the suggestion - at last saw the movie and enjoyed the film - good ride as you said
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