Its Thursday ...past 12 in the night…Vaibhavi theatre guys were preparing for Dilwala (no..its not a hindi movie, its in Kannada) posters …hundreds of those. It would be their next screening…and the theatre will be full..well .. almost.
jaTTa had just finished playing… it would be the last show it would have..across many theaters in bengLur.
For sure , it could not have lasted for more than a week. The producers seem to have tried hard to keep a common movie-goer away. Take this for a poster : a naked woman lying on her back ..showing only her face and legs and Kishore's fiery eyes staring at us.
It almost looks as if the team had put up a challenge…"watch it if you are so desperate!" they seem to be saying…as if inviting only a 'perverted' mind to be interested in it.. and later leave them at the end of the movie to show how wrong their thought-process was.
There were only 15 people in the balcony of 200+ seats. Around the entire theatre, only one small 3ft x 2 ft poster showed outside … just to make sure i am going for the intended one.
A great movie had just made its mark and left. Few years later, people would probably be eagerly looking for buying DVDs of it…for it would be a classic.
Giriraj's style is all over the movie.. for now, he seems to be most talented movie-maker in these times for KFI. While there are quite a few areas where you would feel confident about proving Giriraj wrong.. they have done it with a lot of taste…and quality … of a very high order.
You will find plenty of great reviews for the film, It is such a compelling story…but the theater will tell a different story. Such are time times!
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/entertainment/reviews/Movie-review-Jatta/articleshow/24052827.cms
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