A few words about American Gangster

A few days back we had gone to see American Gangster. I really liked the movie. though it was about the underworld and the real-life character played be Denzel Washington is a ruthless Gangster, unscrupulous to the core of his existance yet there was a heart in it. The amazing acting skills of Washington are just reaffirmed. Russel Crowe is also extremely good. The beauty of the whole flick is that the story is told in a gripping manner even when the narration moves from the good to the bad. Both the actors and the director has done a very constrained yet highly taunt job. The intensity of the story never decreases through out the whole movie. The editing is also done very well. I wonder as to how long it is going to take Indian filmmakers to do such agood job. I should not deny that there have some good attempts in the near past like Mithya, Company, Sarkar, Sathya etc. but yet there is still something missing in our films. Maybe actors like aamir khan can bring in their intensity to the Indian Gangster films. Any way till then we have Denzel Washington. One of my favourite actors. Good work Mr. Washington, keep it up.

Movies are one of the most important forms of connecting with people. It is a medium which is widely used and abused. Some movies just stay with u long after u've even forgotten the main storyline. When i sit to recollect which are my favourites i would have to sit for some time and think. The list would include a rainbow of various movies i've wached over the time. Anahat, Bombay to Goa, Padosan, Sarfarosh, Golmaal(old), Life is beautiful, etc. There is nothing specific that i look for in the movies, but most of the times it is the theme which attracts me. In this make-belief world what i most detest is hypocrisy. I hate filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali who claim to create profound art and try to play God. He is the other extreme of Satyajit Ray. Ray tried to portray the nuances of ordinary life in ordinary settings, this man here tries to create fantastic world in magnificent atmosphere. In Devdas he tried to use all the available colours in the world, which didn't work out fine so his next ventures were as colourless as possible. What he forgot to put into his movies was their soul. Highly superficial and artificial is a very common characeristics of his movies. No doubt that this is an unreal medium of art yet it has to realistic. I hope this time around Sanlay realizes his error and doesn't repeat it in his next film.

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