Lootera is a 3rd class movie...1 song is good...cinematography is done with talent. But the whole movie is miserably boring. Everytime viewer feels a lot cud hav been done. Poor on most aspects!
Mr. Motwane seems to have lost the outline in his zeal for sticking to the details. 'Lootera' is a film that's surely a far cry from the Bollywood run-of-the-mill nonsense, but it's nothing to go rah-rah about. The real force of O Henry's story lay in the fact that a failed painter sacrificed his life to save a sick girl's. Here the angle is totally changed. Sorry for the spoiler, but the hero doesn't die trying to save her life, he dies because he's cornered by a cop. Where's that poignant stab of emotion that O Henry conjures at the end of his short story? Nowhere!
The critics have the tendency to go gaga about anything that comes from the Phantom production or its bunch. Even if they produce a substandard film, the critics would scrape the nooks and crannies to look for meanings, metaphors and similes where none was intended.
Re: An Overrated Lootera
by aditya on Jul 07, 2013 03:16 AM
I firmly disagree with your viewpoint. He has a chance to escape, when his friend offers him help. Remember? But he turns back having made the decision of his life (ironically which leads to his death, and he KNOWS this) in order to save her life. Until then, he shows 'bad faith' as Albert Camus says, by blaming the circumstances, but this is the moment when he is fully conscious of the decision he is making and thus becomes the rue master of his life (or death). Also, please do remember the last scene where he draws out the EMPTY pistol. He knows it is empty, but he doesn't want to be at the mercy of some random policemen. Quite the contrary, he is now the decider of his own fate. The movie touched me on many levels and is definitely not a shallow one.
Re: Re: An Overrated Lootera
by Stream Enterer on Jul 08, 2013 09:43 PM
I admire your blow-by-blow account of the finale, though it wasn't needed. I didn't say 'Lootera' is a shallow movie, just that it's not the masterpiece that the critics in their wet dreams are touting it as. As for the finale, there is a difference between laying one's life on the line and LOSING it than GIVING IT AWAY voluntarily. That's the difference between the O Henry story and 'Lootera'.
