Sunday, October 5, 2008

Review : A Wednesday (2008)

Not a usual terrorist movie!

Rating : 3.5/5
Genre : Thriller

This movie has a very small cast and its story revolves around these 4-5 characters.
Anupam Kher(Prakash Rathod,Commissioner of police) is about to retire and he narrates a case which affected him the most in his career.The story takes place on a wednesday between 2pm to 6pm when a man(Nasseruddin Shah) calls him and tells him that he has planted 5 bombs in the city which are set to blow off at 6.30pm.The only way for the police to know the position of the bomb is to do what the man says.

And that is all I'm going to tell about the story.

Faith is really very powerful.It draws everyone towards it.It is at the core in , A Wednesday.The police is forced to believe what the man says and does it only to find out that...........(sorry no spoilers!!!).

No words will be enough to praise the one man , Nasseruddin Shah who literally carries the movie in his shoulders.He has really churned out to be one of India's finest actors.Any role will fit him perfectly.

Frankly,this movie doesn't have a single song and the background score is just amazing , on par with hollywood action flicks without any sort of plagiarism from the west (This has to be noted).

So good plot , effective dialogues and great performances ensure an above average movie for the debutant writer-director Neeraj Pandey.It has been a trend these days for young directors making their debut to make a film on a terrorist subject (keeping mumbai meri jaan and aamir in mind) and all of them have made the critics awestruck as they keep complaining on the lack of proper directors and script writers.


All in all , this is a very good movie and i sincerely advice ardent movie watchers as well as people looking out for a reason to watch movies to get to the movie theatres and get entertained or as people say get the proper "value for money" because this is a clean , non-masala flick with absolutely no time filling comedy,punch dialogues,intro scenes and no sort of romance.

Bottom Line : A Common man answers the questions putforth to him.

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