Ludo movie review: Abhishek Bachchan, Pankaj Tripathi’s film is a peculiar play of emotions
Film: Ludo (streaming on Netflix)
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Aditya Roy Kapur, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Rohit Suresh Saraf, Pearle Maaney, Inayat Verma, Asha Negi
Director: Anurag Basu
IANS Rating: * * and 1/2 (two and a half stars)
‘Ludo’ is good as an idea, participating in execution, however principally mediocre in output. It is a movie that ensembles 4 intertwined tales of affection and relationships, and the concept is to unfold out a story with a twist of irreverence and wry humour.
Anurag Basu, the hand that rolls the cube, has been amongst mainstream Bollywood’s most attention-grabbing storytellers over the current previous. With Ludo, he buildings a story that will remind you of his 2007 anthology Life In A… Metro, though the tales and the flavours of the 2 movies are wholly totally different.
The innovation that Basu makes an attempt along with his new darkish comedy is to create out a four-pronged narrative that strikes very similar to the board sport from which the movie attracts its identify. These are plots that transfer concurrently and, like a sport of ludo, finish at a typical level. Basu, in truth, additionally colour-codes his 4 tales, with the dominant ardour of every story being outlined by a specific color on the ludo board — purple, blues, inexperienced or yellow.
The first of those tales is a couple of ventriloquist Aakash (Aditya Roy Kapoor) and wealthy lady Ahana (Sanya Malhotra). Aakash discovers a viral video of an off-the-cuff sexual encounter they as soon as had. He units off to warn the lady, solely to search out she is about to get married.
In the second story, Rajkummar Rao performs Alok Kumar or Aalu, petty native powerful and Mithun Chakraborty clone who finally ends up spending a lot of the movie making an attempt to rescue the husband of Pinky (Fatima Sana Shaikh), the item of his onesided affection since they had been children.
Abhishek Bachchan toplines the third story as Bittu the goon, whose dream of uniting along with his estranged little daughter (Inayat Verma) meets a weird accident.
The final story entails a hapless retailer salesman (Rohit Suresh Saraf) and a South Indian nurse (Pearle Maaney), who’re in dire want of cash and find yourself with an sudden and harmful fortune.
The 4 tales discover a level to converge on this planet of gangster Sattu bhaiya (Pankaj Tripathi), who has personal little misadventure in retailer.
Basu does a superb job organising the tales however his storytelling course of wanted to be crisper. The movie’s 150-minute runtime might have been trimmed to a few hours. The sluggish tempo means not one of the tales wholly come alive. Overall, because the tales head in the direction of the movie’s climax, Basu’s storytelling tends to go uncontrolled.
Ludo is a delight primarily owing to its solid. Every actor on this movie brings out the quirks related to the position, notably Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi and little Inayat Verma. Together, the movie’s hapless protagonists have interaction in a bittersweet run in opposition to time as a peculiar play of feelings unfolds on the display.
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