The Last Lear
The Last Lear
PG | 12 September 2008 (USA)
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The film starts with the veteran thespian Harish Mishra, he is gravely ill. The punishments of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, keeps strangely distant and refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story emerges.

Reviews
Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Chetan Malik The Last Lear is a movie directed by one of the best director of our film Industry Rituparno Ghosh.I used to watch all his movie and for me,perhaps this is the best movie given by him.The person who adds four moons in the movie is Mr. Amitabh Bachchan.The way he acted in the movie was just mind blowing.This is one art film that you can not afford to miss.It's an intriguing movie in typical Ghosh style, where people quietly sit and talk and the narration is by means of flashbacks. The story is that of an ageing and ailing stage actor being persuaded to act in a movie, which happens to be his last, and has been left in a coma as the aftereffects of the shooting.
Dev Khanna The movie is based on a Shakespearean age stage actor,Harish Mishra(Amitabh Bachchan).Harish also called harry, is a die hard fan of Shakespeare and thus aspired to be a successful stage actor at a stage in his life. In the last lear,after a long long time I see the character of the movie Harish and not Amitabh Bacchan because what Amitabh did was he became Harish and was not seen anywhere as the personality that he is.Amitabh Bachchan was at his best. Rituparno Bachchan,Amitabh Bachchan and Arindam Chaudhuri,very rare combination but done their excellent job in this movie The Last Lear.The movie is in English and i really like the way Shakespeare's art portrayed in this movie.
Bhupati Kumar I have read many reviews on this movie and all praises the work of Amitabh Bachchan but i particularly like the performance of Priety Zinta the most. The way she portrayed the character of Shabnam in the was just awesome.I particularly like her because i am a big fan of her from the time she came in the industry.I have seen all the movies given by planman productions and this is the best movie they had given in the past.The kind of actor who considers himself too good simply because he just cannot be bad.Each and every scene has been beautifully shot and the emotions of actors are beautifully relayed across the screen. Rituparno is fab as the director and has done a superb job.
S Dewan Planman productions always came with different and unique topics and do their job brilliantly as does in this movie.I don't feel there is any one who can beat Amitabh bachchan in acting. He improves noticeably with each and every film. As his character demands, Amitabh gives a performance full of passion and vigor. Each scene is very nicely executed making it a pleasure to watch.The movie casts Mr. Amitabh Bachchan as a lead and he was awesome in his character.The story revolves around Harish Mishra, a retired Shakespearean theater actor who spent precisely thirty years and nine months on stage and then suddenly quit, and his first and last act as a cinema artist. He is immensely passionate about Shakespeare, believes that nothing even comparable can ever be written, knows all his plays by heart, lives in those stories, condemns modern cinema and considers theater as a much higher art form for directors and actors to convey their message to an audience.