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Ovijeet Sengupta sahi bole

Absolutely she is amazing

Bas ek thumbnail me pooja bhatt kya lag gai, review dene lagi gayi😁

Oh thankyou Sahni sa'ab!

Well it's not everyone's movie. Manto is a complex character. One needs perspective to celebrate movie like this. The best part of movies like these are the makers do not shove down the perspective into audiences' throat. It lets the audience decide themselves. The fact that she had to come home and do elaborate research for 6 hours to write a script for the review shows how successful the makers are in achieving what they intended to.

@Sandeep Mehta I still argue Asoka was a movie which was ahead of it's time, atleast in terms of cinematography. The issue was with the characters. They were Bollywoodish. Raees would be a blockbuster in the 90s. The writing was it's downfall. It seemed like Mahira's character was written in half a day. We have seen, heard and celebrated the storyline since eternity. Writer and the director is to be blamed. Both the movies have no comparison with Manto. Manto is an art, the other two are just movies.

Same I also suggest in my last comment in this channel. Her focus is only on storytelling but not on the cenamatic excellence to capture the so-called story.

@Sandeep Mehta Nah I'm not talking about a blockbuster in terms of moolah. Raees was supposed to have every element of blockbuster to it. SRK playing a gangster, Nawaz his arch nemesis, bootlegging, a good item song and what not? The flaw was in the script. There were too many rough edges. The only appreciable thing about the script was illegal encounter at the end, which seemed closer to reality. For instance, look at Silver Lining Playbook, in the final moments Bradley Cooper whispers something in his wife's ears. But the makers chose to not disclose what exactly it was. Which caused quite a bit of uproar amongst simple movie goers. But, serious movie buffs loved it, cos here the audience could make up the any goodbye they wished. Take another instance, in The Whiplash in the final act, the young protoganist walks back on to the stage after terrible insult from his coach and delivers the most magnificent performance of his life. During the entire performance the only reaction the makers chose to show was the drummer's fathers. The audience reaction was never shown, which was beautiful film making. In the movie birdman, when Emma Stone's father jumps from his hospital window, she looks at the sky as if her father's soul is flying towards the sky. But, it was left to the audiences'discretion to decide their own alternative ending. Similarly in the movie hereditary, there is a theory among the movie buff community that the second half of the movie never happens, it was just the mother's imagination. Similarly, in the very divisive movie Mother, a beautiful juxtaposition of climate change, biblical stories is made which needed audience to come home and do a bit of their research to understand what the movie actually meant. Tbh Manto had good elements like the one's I have mentioned above. Raees on the other hand lacked any qualities to become a beautiful poetic artistic intellectual movie akin to Manto. There is no comparison at all. At the end of the day Raees is a good one time watch gangster genre movie, while Manto is poetry on screen.

@Sandeep Mehta lmfao 😂

Damn. I thought I was the only one who cried after watching the movie. Especially the last part, 'Toba Tek Singh'.

@@memelord7551 :)

Listen to.its audio rendition on youtube. It's hair raising

@@RachitaGupta Will certainty do! I didnt like "Bu" though (in English as "Smell"). It was too graphic for my taste. On a lighter note I can imagine why he was tried for obscenity for that one! :)

@@saksheekumar I am very upset whatever happened through independence but independence is necessary for us I am sorry this massacre is counted in collateral damage

I've read his nearly half a dozen stories, and also had the same feeling. Khol Do, is what remains most spine-chilling experience one will ever go through regardless of whatever medium. Be it, writing, visuals or audio. Manto has shown the most destructive self of human through it, i conclude.

@@RohitSingh-qn4mk Sir, the English divided us on communal lines to weaken our power. They made us believe that we are each other's enemies. But what did women do to suffer all this? Women on both sides were raped so as to disgrace their community. Why were little girls raped? Little boys murdered. They were merely a pawn in the entire process. What is more saddening is that politicians continue to play this divide and rule game and after 71 years we still fall prey to it.

thanks Arko, you made my day!

@@SucharitaTyagi U're welcome... Appreciate ur passion towards films...

Absolutely! I am in love with her work. Could listen to her talk about films for hours.

Even AR Rahman

I think it's a start for the best biopic. In next 10 years we will see great filmmaking I am guessing.

one of the most beautiful movie

Thanks for being so out of context

Sahi bola bhai... I just don't like tht stupid fellow...

Ha bhai, akal nahi hone k waja se aise khayal ate hain. Salman ki movies Dekho.

Manoj Vajpayee aur Rajkumar Rao jaise heere bhi hai. Bass chupe hue hai

#Sacredgames nam hai bhai 😅

Dr Sareeka Physiotherapist nikkhil

Yikes

Dandelion's world who the hell is sarmad?

Dandelion's world ummm. Ok. Maybe that's y no one in india even knows who the fuck he is. 😂

Sarmad did a great job..”kali shalwar”is also there in sarmad movie...

Wajeeha Gull with all due respect, i want to know who sarmad is. He might be great, but we people in India don't really know who he is. I am not trying to be condescending here. Just asking a simple question. If he is even 10 percent of nawazuddin siddiqui i am sure he would have been really good too.

Raza Hasnain a movie with a same name “Manto”made by Sarmad Khoosat in 2015...he also played the role of manto...you can see it on RU-vid 😊

S B well you should catch it in theatres

@just smile 😃 yup!

Haan me too..... I never miss a sucharita review