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Takes time but a spectacle indeed!
Highlights
Imitiaz Ali gets caught in an inextricable emotional inertia and the resultant narration for an hour and more of the 51 minutes is rudderless and dependant largely on the on screen chemistry of the lead pair Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika. Wait a minute. Do not give up on the movie.
Imitiaz Ali gets caught in an inextricable emotional inertia and the resultant narration for an hour and more of the 51 minutes is rudderless and dependant largely on the on screen chemistry of the lead pair Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika. Wait a minute. Do not give up on the movie. Having laid his premise, when he gets to dealing with it, he is a different zone all together. He perhaps gives the audience a product they are neither prepared and ready for nor trained to accept. Here is a topsy-turvy world after all. Here the viewer decides the grammar of the film, not the maker. Imtiaz, however, goes bold and decides to follow his passion. This may well cost him some mega bucks and also repute at the box-office but assuredly it would place him in the top rack of our filmmakers. He magnetises his beliefs into a passion that needs empathy. At a time when even our dreams are dictated by lineage and conditioned by the ashes of our sponsors, Imitiaz nudges you to dare and follow your dream even at the cost of being a looser in the conventional sense of the expression.
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Two hassle-free souls meet up in picturesque Corsica and define their ephemeral acquaintance and go to experience adventure. However, they part and take their ways. The time dice gets them to meet in Kolkata and the revulsions begin to unfold. Ved (Ranbir) is the product of stern parenthood and from a family that believes that a good engineering degree with or without a MBA is a passport to social arrival. However, as a child he hid his dreams and paid to get them in parts from a roadside mendicant who sold ideas and dreams to the little boy. Ved stores them all in the deep labyrinths of his psyche and fights them to climb up the social ladder. Tara (Deepika) too is in a similar world working for some Tea manufacturer and adept at the ways of the world and yet not completely in peace with it.
When she sees Ved with extraordinary talent sacrificing his spirit to the mundane demands of his times she screams halt. She kindles the conflict and bares out to him his schizophrenic existence. Yes, all this is happening in a Hindi mainstream film! Like in ‘Rockstar’, the protagonist in the search of his dreams, real and artificial, gets sucked into the vortex and acquires deep scars in the process. Then in a fitting finale to this pent-up narration is a rare experience in his life as in our cinema. All this and more is what ‘Tamasha’ is about. I am sure for the discerning and for them alone this movie will extend a face that you take back with you. To each his own and that is the bouquet of alternatives that Imtiaz offers. Kudos not just for style, but for the vision and the gall. This is a huge moment for Imtiaz. Never mind the verdict at the BO.
This is also the finest hour for Ranbir. He gives this film what Shahid gave ‘Haider’ last year. The scenes where he addresses the groups at the dhaba, the final scene when he relates the story to his family, the soliloquy he indulges in, the coming to terms of his persona slowly graduating from success to failure is a range that is benumbing and worth an applause – a standing ovation. The Kapoor lad is also in his element in the lighter moments and add to it his nibble-footed dancing and you know that it is time he and his gang (like Shahid, Hrithik, etc) took over from the Khans. ‘Tamasha’ is not just the famous folklore. It is an amazing cinematic experience if only you have the patience to let go the time Imtiaz Ali takes to warm up. Watch it patiently, indulgently and carefully. It is not for all. Treat yourself to a good film.
L Ravichander
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