Feb 20, 2007

Watching 'Black Friday'

5 comments:

Santosh Kumar T K said...

couldnt share the same feeling about junta laughing at the wrong places more!!!

wonder if it's a deliberate attempt on Kashyap's part to lighten up things a little, or is it that we expect to be humored even in a supposedly grim fare like black friday..

you and i can never tell...

http://madness-of-madras.blogspot.com/2007/02/good-friday.html

http://madness-of-madras.blogspot.com/2007/02/dor-darshan.html

ksp said...

Not watched Black Friday (yet), but the phenomenon (of people laughing at the wrong times) probably can be ascribed to discomfort.

BTW, Nice blogs(!)

(sree)

J Ramanand said...

Thanks for dropping by, Sree. Perhaps it could be 'discomfort'.

Anonymous said...

I quite admired the risk Kashyap took by making it documentary-style and doing it without a 'hero'. Reminds one of Scorsese, but IMO, much better than him or Ramgopal in not just looking at the underworld chappies.

Oh yes, the laughing-in-the-wrong-places-syndrome makes me wonder if these chaps even understand the basic premise of the movie - I saw copious quantities of giggling-and-laughing in, of all movies, Nishabd.

Sometimes, I worry that with audiences like these, the few intelligently made movies that there are these days will end up being commercial failures. One hopes not.

Shamanth

J Ramanand said...

shamanth: I also liked the appropriate use of the "chapter" format. Given the intricate strands happening simultaneously, this was a very good way of presenting the story.
As for audiences, well, every Dhoom-2 explodes the belief that audiences can reject vaporous drivel.