Movie: BLACK AND WHITE
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Shefali Chhaya, Aditi Sharma
Producer: Subhash Ghai
Music: Sukhvinder Singh
Director: Subhash Ghai
RELEASE DATE: Mar 7, 2008
BLACK AND WHITE' is an emotional Drama that entertains for sure but leaves the audience with a lofty message for all humanity- in search of harmony amidst diversity. In that sense, 'BLACK AND WHITE' is an idea whose time has come. Just what the world needs, perhaps. And when a thought theme such as this one comes straight from the heart, it holds a special place in my mindscape as it has filled my world with so many colours !
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Junaid (Anurag), a brain washed jehadi from Afghanistan, is sent to India as a suicide bomber to create mayhem on India’s Independence Day in the capital. With his new false identity as Numair, a Gujarat communal riots victim, he consciously befriends an Urdu literature professor Rajan Mathur (Anil Kapoor).
He looks at Mathur as his perfect gateway to procuring a VIP pass for the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort. Mathur, who stays with his activist wife Roma (Shefali) in Delhi''s Chandni Chowk, welcomes Numair to his house and makes him a part of his family. Though Roma's instinct makes her suspect Numair and his actions, he manages to convince her in due course.
In his fifteen-day stay with the loving Mathur family and experiencing great warmth and affection from the people staying around them, the fanatic in Numair starts undergoing gradual change. He gets in an emotional dilemma whether to go ahead with his mission or not. But as the D-Day finally nears he decides to go according to his plan. What happens on the mission day and what changes it brings in the lives of the Mathur couple and Numair forms the rest of the film!
Debutante Anurag exhibits his good talent with his brooding, intense act playing the cold blooded terrorist. He succeeds in showcasing his anguish and the steady change in his beliefs very well. Anil Kapoor yet again proves his versatility. Shefali is effective in a small yet powerful role. Aditi is hardly there. Milind Gunaji is menacingly good. Veteran theatre artist Habib Tanvir seen onscreen after a long time is a treat to watch.
The showman Subhash Ghai for the first time changing his tracks from popular entertainers to serious meaningful cinema has outdone himself in all the departments. There are no popular Ghai touches visible in any frame yet he succeeds in delivering the desired impact. He deserves to be lauded for his courage and risk taking for attempting such a genre and not ending up making a dark and depressing film.
One of the main USP of Black and White is its good story by Varon B K Sharma which has been worked out well by Ghai and his team into a multi layered screenplay. His penned dialogues are well worded as well. Amongst the most effective scenes in terms of writing and handling are the initial reels portions showing Afghanistan and its terror camps, Shefali's murder, Anil's subsequent break down and the climax confrontation between Anurag and Milind Gunaji.
However, the romantic track between Aditi and Anurag, the songs woven around them could have totally been avoided as also a few sequences in the climax do bring the graph of the film down a bit. But nevertheless, Black and White does make for a good watch for connoisseurs of meaningful cinema.
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Subhash Ghai's film, Black & White, is a genuine Asian curio. It is a thriller about Numair Qazi (Anurag Sinha), a young Muslim suicide bomber who wants to blow himself up at the independence day celebrations at Dehli's famous Red Fort. His mission is supposed to be a wake-up call for Muslims to unite against Hindus in the heart of India.
ReplyDeleteBut Sinha's heart is compromised by a kindly Hindu family that adopts him as one of its own. Anil Kapoor sports an extraordinary false quiff as the head of the family, a cool university professor who promotes world peace to beautiful female students. Sinha remains a dour and combustible youth who keeps murdering hapless Indian members of his terror unit for their sloppy failures to be proper Muslims.
What's unusual is the addition to the mix of Bollywood music, romantic songs and satire. Ghai's film is not in the same intense league as Santosh Sivan's Tamil Tiger thriller, The Terrorist, but it is not that far off.
The movie Black And White has made all the right noises in all the sections, be it music, or even the slick promotional campaign. After all, showman Subhash Ghai is returning to direction after a long time. His last two attempts, namely Yaadein and Kisna were a failure at the box office. With Black And White, Ghai has re-invented himself.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair to Subhash Ghai, he probably didn't know the story was stolen. Moreover, Subhash Ghai has never cared for what the intelligentsia thinks. He started out as a very intelligent boy but lousy actor. That failure rankled and so he harnessed his brains into writing scripts.If you liked Kalicharan, it's because he was a hungry man then. Once his belly and bank balance were loaded, he lost the fire in his belly. It happens all the time in Bollywood.Black & White was probably the first time Ghai tried to sincerely please the award juries - alas! A hungry writer sold him stolen goods! C'est la vie!
ReplyDeleteBlack and White is a very good movie with great direction by Subhash Ghai's. It is definitely a must watch and you should watch it.
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i think it will be a really cool movie to watch….
ReplyDeletei will surely goin to see it… fingers crossed…..
I have just finished watching this movie. They came up with good concept of a suicide bomber coming to india and realising at the end that humanity is a real factor. But believe me the direction was so stupid......i couldnt take it. I dont know how director thinks, dont they think like a normal human being. How can Rajan Mathur(Anil Kapoor) can burn his wife, after she was shot. What is police doing, no investigation. There are so many Non-Sense part in the movie. Grow up bollywood and start thinking real, when directing a movie. People are aware whats happening in this world. How can an afghani speak good hindi, with an indian accent. e.g Even though a person raised in mumbai cannot speak hindi like people born in delhi.
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