Yes, monologues were rather heavygoing in many places.

BW, great reading there! Thanks for sharing that. It must be a real drag to go through all that work, you release it, then everyone piles on in the space of a few hours. I was chatting with someone over the weekend who said “What did you think of it?” and I pointed out a few smaller details that bothered me, and the response was along the lines of “oh, who’s the critic now!” and I thought “Well, you asked me!”, but then I wrote back words to the effect that, when it is a work by the man who gave us Company and Satya, when something else he does falls short of the heights those films reached, you do feel a little disappointed, because you know what he’s capable of doing.

I resist the term ‘critic’ anyway. I’m a fan, an ardent enthusiast, and, like everyone else, I have a reaction to what I watch. These are just my observations and those reactions.

One brief moment that I didn’t mention before, but that I thought was beautifully done was at the 60th birthday rally at Subhash Nagre’s residence, as he descends into the crowd and pauses before the little girl who throws color on him, and you hold your breath for a second and then he scoops her up in his arms, I thought that scene and the one where AB chats with his grandson, these were some lovely sketches of this man’s life which felt very genuine.

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The plot thickens! I can imagine all the critics forming a committee to come up with a fitting rebuttal: a movie where RGV’s character has to read their reviews repeatedly to the score of govindahgovindahgovindah…..