Ghoomketu Review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui movies review and download

Ghoomketu Review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui review and download

Ghoomketu Review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, saddled having an abysmal character whose motives seem arbitrary, has no meat to dig his teeth into.

• Rating: 2 stars (out of 5)
• Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Anurag Kashyap, Raghubir Yadav, Ila Arun, Swanand Kirkire
• Director: Pushpendra Nath Misra

Saibal Chatterjee The earnestness of this endeavor is passable. But an overwhelming blandness takes off the sheen writer-director Pushpendra Nath Misra's comedic take on small-town India's obsession with Bollywood. The broadsides it aims in Mumbai genre movies never find their mark. Some of the jibes are borderline amusing but this narrative of a nondescript wordsmith who wishes to script a new life in tinsel town is inordinately desultory.

The plot is overly reedy. A 30-something man from Mahona, Uttar Pradesh escapes the drudgery of his life also reaches Mumbai in the expectation of being a screenwriter. But any chance of his (mis)adventures devising a rollercoaster ride is rapidly frittered away. Ghoomketu is a vapid fits-and-starts affair that flits between a semi-rural family and also the film industry without any type of rhythm. That is despite the most peculiar self-reflexive components in the screenplay: Misra has his roots in Mahona, Lucknow district.

The titular hero (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) has no love lost for his irascible father (Raghubir Yadav). He composes slogans for autorickshaws and trucks, pens wedding cards and writes political rally songs while he waits for his big break. He does gather the courage to attempt a rest from the past, but the future he desires keeps slipping from his grasp.

Ghoomketu seeks job in Gudgudee, a local paper. The editor (Brijendra Kala) doesn't have any recourse for its job-seeker but gifts the protagonist a primer on the art of writing Bollywood potboilers. Is it true that the book bring Ghoomketu a whiff of good fortune? That's the question that the remainder of the film answers.

Streaming on Zee5 after being stuck in limbo for many years, Ghoomketu feels inevitably dated. The presence at the cast of this late Razzak Khan, who passed away in mid-2016, is one tell-tale sign. Apart from the fact that the departed actor's role remains stunted, the film's storytelling style, also, reeks of obsolescence.

The pen-pusher is at his tether's end when, at a wedding, he has hitched to the wrong woman. He not only body shames the bride, in addition, he refuses to see her face since she isn't the young lass he expected her to become. That is where he loses us.

Within days of the union, Ghoomketu, egged on by aunt Santo (Ila Arun), flees into Mumbai with all the family photo album. His uncle, Guddan (Swanand Kirkire), a greying youth leader, vows to get his nephew back to the family fold no matter what but the authorities don't have any picture of Ghoomketu to go by.

Back in Mumbai, a corrupt and bumbling cop, Inspector Badlani (Anurag Kashyap), is assigned the job of locating Ghoomketu and placing him on the next train back to UP. Nevertheless, the feckless constable's incompetence keeps getting in the way. The latter is given a 30-day ultimatum by the police chief; Ghoomketu, too, has cash just for a month's lease. It is a race against time for the two guys.

Do not expect a riveting cat-and-mouse game . The author will be more desperate to have a film script greenlighted however his pursuit never acquires life-and-death urgency. Not for a moment does it seem that either Ghoomketu or Badlani gets the impulse to jump out of the skin and go for broke.

The perfunctory humor includes nothing at all that may elicit deep belly laughs, let alone bring a smile to the lips. While the newspaper editor throws irregular light on the Bollywood genre conventions that Ghoomketu must keep in mind whilst faking out a script, the aspiring author on his role lurches from one storytelling form into another as a producer keeps changing the goalposts.

When Ghoomketu writes a drama, he is asked to deliver a comedy. When he does end a comedy script, the manufacturer wants him to write a Star Trek-style sci-fi fantasy with Spock lookalikes. What's more, he also has a stab at the horror genre - a pretext for the movie to function up a detour to the heart of a movie presented by Bloodbath Movies and titled Bloody Pool.

When it's time for your aspiring writer to try his hand at romance, Ranveer Singh (a pale, callow shadow of today's cocky star) and Sonakshi Sinha team up to provide a variation on the DDLJ train station climax scene.

Amitabh Bachchan, also, steps in to supply a fillip to the movie's flagging fortunes. He plays with himself donning the garb of a prosecution lawyer in a film-within-the-film. Chitrangada Singh and Lauren Gottlieb pop up too for blink-and-miss appearances. However, all this adds no lasting lustre into the all-round vacuity.

Ghoomketu goes around in circles in search of a centre. It does not have one. Lead actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, saddled having an abysmal character whose motives seem arbitrary, does not have any meat to dig his teeth into. The other members of this cast, several of them demonstrated amounts, do little more than float around limply.

Raghubir Yadav, as the hot-tempered patriarch of a rural household, raves and rants. The sense his tirades make is inversely proportional to the decibel levels he scales. Ila Arun, in the function of the protagonist's aunt, also Swanand Kirkire brightens up things sometimes. But nothing they do can offset the overall waywardness of the movie.

And yes, Anurag Kashyap plays a policeman in a manner so half-hearted which you wonder why he admitted to be part of the movie, and about the wrong side of the camera in that.

The blotchy designs on the protagonist's vibrant shirts sum up the nature of film. It seeks attentions but the flourishes of Ghoomketu fall flat. The movie strives very hard to stand out, but its legs are not strong enough to hold the weight of its ambition. It collapses in a pile.