Ghoomketu
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Ila Arun, Raghubir Yadav, Swanand Kirkire
Director: Pushpendra Nath Mishra
“Writing comedy is a serious business,” Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s whimsically named hero Ghoomketu tells us in the eponymous film. “Audience should laugh too.”
The trouble with Ghoomketu is it never uses its own sage advice. It spells out the obvious, and then goes and underlines it. After a while, it just feels like you are in the middle of an exposition dump and the walls are closing in. As you drown in that needless and relentless information, you just wish that the director would have remembered that as a paying audience of Hindi films, you knew all this all along. No comedy – the delicate thing that it is – could have survived this.
The film takes you on a roller-coaster comedy ride. Nawazuddin is as natural as ever. One cannot differentiate the actor from the character he is playing. As a small-town writer, he makes us believe in his innocence and stories. The way he narrates his tales feels like he is as amazed by them as the person listening to him.
Each and every character in Ghoomketu is written with heart and soul. Each one of them has a back story and supports the story in their own unique way. Raghubir Yadav's energy is unmatchable. After TVF's web series Panchayat, he epitomises a middle-class father in Ghoomketu. Ila Arun is a surprise package. While she tickles the funny bone with her over-the-top representation of a Bollywood bua, she is like the glue that binds Dadda and Ghoomketu. Swanand Kirkire is a delight to watch in the small screen presence he got. Anurag Kashyap as Inspector Badlani is believable, however, not impressive. He appears lazy, but not in the sense the character must have been perceived by the director. It appears he is just unwilling to act and has been forced into doing that.
Earlier in the film, a precocious child advises the hero that a film is as good as its climax, no one cares what is in the middle. In a rare moment when Ghoomketu decides to practise what it preached, the film’s climax is better than the rest of it. Does the end justify the middle? The answer is no but as a reviewer, you like to run with whatever silver lining you can get.
Meanwhile its a must watch movie.
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