Natsamrat (2016): Till now I haven't watched any Marathi film but I had heard lot of praise all the times for Nana Patekar and Mahesh Manjrekar.When I have heard about Natsamrat,I have decided that let this movie introduce me to Marthi cinema so I gave it a try..So how is Natsamrat??Did it gave me a good start??
Plot: The film is a tragedy about a veteran theater actor named Ganpat "Appa" Belwalkar (Nana Patekar) who has been the best of his lot during his heyday, garnering fame and fortune acting in plays based on various works, especially William Shakespeare's. It is a tragedy of a veteran actor who enjoyed a very vital importance in his life but who becomes the victim of old age alienation and estrangement. The film reveals an intensely tragic fate of an actor who becomes victim of fate and fortune in old age, which is similar to the fate of Lear. Natsamrat suffers the pangs of old age and dishonor inflicted on him by his own children. It is a tragedy of great humanist and actor who succumbs to the ill fate and destiny. In fact, Natsamrat is a story of Ganpatrao Belvalkar, who withstands great suffering after his retirement from stage acting.
Plus Points:
1)Performances: Nana Patekar is truly a Natsamrat.He deserves an award for sure for his mind blowing performance.Patekar, at 65 proves that great actors don't fade away. They simply burn brighter with the growing awareness of mortality. This performance of a man raging against human injustices and God's quirky decree will rank among the most towering performances of Indian cinema.Vikram Gokhale as Rambhau is equally compelling. The sequence on his deathbed when Gokhale recites lines from the Mahabharat makes our hairs stand on-end. This is an actor at the crest of his performing ability.Medha Manjrekar as Sarkaar is brilliant in her role.
2)Dialogues Screenplay and Direction: Natsamrat is a very old-fashioned melodramatic morality tale, and that's the highest compliment I can pay this extraordinarily rich emotional drama. One of the residual joys of watching this expansive tear-jerkier is its affectionate and enthusiastic evocation of theater greats from V V Shirwadkar to Shakespeare and, yes, even Tenesee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The director, rather dexterously brings in the idea of 'Old Theatre' versus 'New Theatre', of changing mores in theater and life.Writers Kiran Yadnopavit, Abhijeet Deshpande for bringing alive a 45-year old play to remind us that great writing is ever renewable.Thank you, Mahesh Manjrekar, for restoring our faith in a cinema that speaks a straight emotional language and doesn't borrow its sensitivities from European cinema.
3)Music: Background score is brilliant and carries the feel of the movie perfectly.
So,Natsamrat is the best movie of the 2016 with award winning performance from Nana Patekar and brilliant taking of Mahesh Manjrekar.A Masterpiece work....Loved it...
My rating 10/10
Plot: The film is a tragedy about a veteran theater actor named Ganpat "Appa" Belwalkar (Nana Patekar) who has been the best of his lot during his heyday, garnering fame and fortune acting in plays based on various works, especially William Shakespeare's. It is a tragedy of a veteran actor who enjoyed a very vital importance in his life but who becomes the victim of old age alienation and estrangement. The film reveals an intensely tragic fate of an actor who becomes victim of fate and fortune in old age, which is similar to the fate of Lear. Natsamrat suffers the pangs of old age and dishonor inflicted on him by his own children. It is a tragedy of great humanist and actor who succumbs to the ill fate and destiny. In fact, Natsamrat is a story of Ganpatrao Belvalkar, who withstands great suffering after his retirement from stage acting.
Plus Points:
1)Performances: Nana Patekar is truly a Natsamrat.He deserves an award for sure for his mind blowing performance.Patekar, at 65 proves that great actors don't fade away. They simply burn brighter with the growing awareness of mortality. This performance of a man raging against human injustices and God's quirky decree will rank among the most towering performances of Indian cinema.Vikram Gokhale as Rambhau is equally compelling. The sequence on his deathbed when Gokhale recites lines from the Mahabharat makes our hairs stand on-end. This is an actor at the crest of his performing ability.Medha Manjrekar as Sarkaar is brilliant in her role.
2)Dialogues Screenplay and Direction: Natsamrat is a very old-fashioned melodramatic morality tale, and that's the highest compliment I can pay this extraordinarily rich emotional drama. One of the residual joys of watching this expansive tear-jerkier is its affectionate and enthusiastic evocation of theater greats from V V Shirwadkar to Shakespeare and, yes, even Tenesee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The director, rather dexterously brings in the idea of 'Old Theatre' versus 'New Theatre', of changing mores in theater and life.Writers Kiran Yadnopavit, Abhijeet Deshpande for bringing alive a 45-year old play to remind us that great writing is ever renewable.Thank you, Mahesh Manjrekar, for restoring our faith in a cinema that speaks a straight emotional language and doesn't borrow its sensitivities from European cinema.
3)Music: Background score is brilliant and carries the feel of the movie perfectly.
So,Natsamrat is the best movie of the 2016 with award winning performance from Nana Patekar and brilliant taking of Mahesh Manjrekar.A Masterpiece work....Loved it...
My rating 10/10