Genre: Drama, Comedy, Not your typical Bollywood shit
*ing: Partho Gupte, Amol Gupte, Divya Dutta
In one word … Brilliant!! However, this brilliant of piece of art will be much less appreciated by most cine-goers … only the critics will welcome and give it an applause. It’s sad to see such awesome movies don’t generate the kind of response they deserve. I think it’s high time India starts having special screening movie halls for low and medium budget non-masala movies. The lack of special screening venues means all these movies have to compete in the same movie hall displaying some shitty movie starring a Salman or a Shahrukh. Besides these days a movie for 2 in a multiplex means a dent of around 500 INR … unfortunately since there are no special screening venues the plexes are forced to charge you the same fare for the shitty big-wig movie and ‘Stanley Ka Dabba’. If there are special venues for such movie they can probably charge half the normal fare and audience will find that acceptable. I understand if you have to pay INR 200+ for a big-budget multi star movie you will gladly do so but for a movie like ‘Stanley ka Dabba’ most audience may not be willing to part with that money. Price such movie at 2 digits or less than INR 120 per head and I am sure there will plenty of takers.
Anyway, getting back to my take on the movie … hang on … I will not say anything about this movie … I don’t wanna kill the plot, go watch the movie or rent the movie … trust me … it’s worth a watch … fat chance you may not like it as much as I did … but it’s worth a watch. Brilliant direction, writing and acting by Amol Gupte and his son playing Stanley. I am gonna be looking forward to more work from Amol Gupte and this kid Partho playing Stanley sure has potential.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907761/
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stanley_ka_dabba/
*ing: Partho Gupte, Amol Gupte, Divya Dutta
In one word … Brilliant!! However, this brilliant of piece of art will be much less appreciated by most cine-goers … only the critics will welcome and give it an applause. It’s sad to see such awesome movies don’t generate the kind of response they deserve. I think it’s high time India starts having special screening movie halls for low and medium budget non-masala movies. The lack of special screening venues means all these movies have to compete in the same movie hall displaying some shitty movie starring a Salman or a Shahrukh. Besides these days a movie for 2 in a multiplex means a dent of around 500 INR … unfortunately since there are no special screening venues the plexes are forced to charge you the same fare for the shitty big-wig movie and ‘Stanley Ka Dabba’. If there are special venues for such movie they can probably charge half the normal fare and audience will find that acceptable. I understand if you have to pay INR 200+ for a big-budget multi star movie you will gladly do so but for a movie like ‘Stanley ka Dabba’ most audience may not be willing to part with that money. Price such movie at 2 digits or less than INR 120 per head and I am sure there will plenty of takers.
Anyway, getting back to my take on the movie … hang on … I will not say anything about this movie … I don’t wanna kill the plot, go watch the movie or rent the movie … trust me … it’s worth a watch … fat chance you may not like it as much as I did … but it’s worth a watch. Brilliant direction, writing and acting by Amol Gupte and his son playing Stanley. I am gonna be looking forward to more work from Amol Gupte and this kid Partho playing Stanley sure has potential.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1907761/
Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stanley_ka_dabba/
Hey Robby,
ReplyDeleteAgreed ! Its Brilliant !!! Loved it sooo much !