Newton
This looks like to be the era of good acting for
Bollywood. Not only cricket but we have
great talent when it comes to acting in India. The movie Newton is completely
attributed to Rajkumar Rao. I don’t really know whose Idea it was to give him
curls but that really made the whole look. He is acting the character of a
government employee who is annoyingly stickler for rules, a text book follower.
Most of his acting is through his expressions. There is no big-time dialogue
delivery like Mr Big B, but the way he speaks with eye expressions is the key
to his good acting.
I am sincerely surprised by the decision to send the movie
for foreign film to Oscars. Newton could have been an excellent short film. I
wonder why it had to be stretched to 2hrs movie? I should also mention the lead
female actor in the movie Anjali Patil has acted phenomenally. She should
really be praised for the role she has played. The simple roles are the most
complex to portray she is good with it. The director has done a good job with
the narration of the story. There wasn’t much of a story to tell and yet the
director tells it with subtle style of normal story telling. The camera effect
was the big mistake in the movie, since the movie had to be shot in jungle or
shabby background there was way too much of bokeh or blurr effect, which was
not seamless. One doesn’t remain gripped to the movie. It doesn’t ever deliver
its messages precisely, one has to really look for them. I keep expecting the
story to really turn and become something bigger or interesting but it doesn’t.
Maybe that is the purpose of the movie, nothing great to say but just normal
uninteresting story. Well it succeeds to keep me uninterested.
These days off beat movies do carry element of
entertainment and humor, so does Newton. Yet I do not recommend this movie as a
good watch simply that there isn’t a remarkable story to tell with no visual appeal
to it. A short film is what it should have been.
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