Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Amit Mangal I recently got the opportunity to see this movie (was airing on a movie channel), and felt really blessed and privileged to see it.It may not be a technically perfect movie, but V.Shantaram has crafted a masterpiece in terms of portraying the characters and the plot to the audience in the simplest way. The movie is high on emotions as it tries to dig into some hard to call humans (convicts of single/multiple murders) and a warden who believes that with forgiveness and love, they can be cured to live in a civilized society.In a lot of scenes the movie uses metaphorical representation/dialogues to convey the underlying emotion to the audience and I found this to be very very intriguing. The end specially I feel is unmatched on it. Something that a non-interested movie goer can understand, and something that an enthusiast can really appreciate.I think the movie is not way ahead of it's time, but way behind. Something like Ramayana and Mahabharata, timeless.

Bipul Kumar Bal One Inspector took a daring and courageous step to make six prisoners, normal and good human being. He took them out of the prison at the condition of, that if they flew or do something wrong in the society the inspector has to loose his job and might have to go behind the bars. He took them to a place. Then the movie shows how they become good persons.=======Two Eyes and twelve hands=========== One of the daring effort. One Of the finest movie ever made in Bollywood. Still in the aspect of present days , the story line is fresh and different. All the six prisoner are so believable. Hats of to all the crew of the movie.And obviously the song of Lata Mangeskar (Ae Malik tere bande hum) always touches my heart..10/10.

Vishal Agrawal A real classic. I watched it about 25 years back and watched again yesterday. I did the magic both times on me, as a child and as a middle aged man. A jailer fights the eternal battle of good against evil when he decides to make 'men' out of 6 hard-core criminals. Story doesn't meander. Plot is simple and filled with surprises and mythological grandiose. At times movie becomes sheer art and work of genius when V Shantaram through his spectacular framing and simple screenplay details talk about the psychology of a common man or uncommon man in dynamic society. Scenes like grandmother, Shankar walking out, first night sleep etc are just mind blowing. My favorite scene is when Jailer drags the barbed wire woods. Making of the film is extremely artistic. All the scenes are thoroughly conceived. You can make out each and every actor moves from spot to spot. Camera moves in spots. Every single frame is detailed to its last frame. Acting is extremely animated but works in favor in a film like this. Background music is extremely provocative as lots of drums are used. Very entertaining drama. 9/10.

The Court Clown During a phase of my life, I had a roommate who had used to sing "Ai malik tere bande hum" (O Lord, we're thy servants!) pretty often, and that was the only reason I watched this movie (the song was from this movie, he had told me!), when it was broadcast by Dordarshan, the National Television Channel of India, a few years later. And I must admit, it was a good movie. Sure, it had all those mandatory songs, but yet the songs didn't intrude into the movie, at least for an Indian such as I, used to heavy and endless dose of songs in movies.To me, the most impressive point of this movie was its simple yet nice story (apparently based on a real-life incident), which was devoid of many so-called masalas (spices!)in spite of the era in which it was made (Compare Do Bigha Zamin for cheap sentimentality, for example) and yet executed well.It's long-enduring impact can be seen from the spoof enacted by Annu Kapoor for a T.V. series (I don't remember its name, though) which used to be in Zee TV as recently as in 2003.