I have been waiting for the Movie the Blue Umbrella for a while and because of two reasons, one it has Pankaj Kapoor in lead role and second it's a Vishal bhardwaj Movie. Now a day's i blindly pick up any product these two work on together or seperately.Quality is Guaranteed!. Before i move on the Vishal, In my personal opinion Pankaj Kapoor is The Finest Character Actor in Indian Movie for last 2-3 decade. There is no parallel to his versatility and ability to get into the skin of the character . I am not sure if he belongs to Method school of acting but his projection of character on screen makes it impossible to believe if he could have done the role without actually living the character in his daily life. in modern times his collaboration with Vishal Bhardwaj has created masterpieces like Maqbool and Blue Umbrella which in time to come will stand out as important milestone in hindi film industry.
Coming to vishal bhardwaj , its difficult to categorise his talent in one creative field. My earliest introduction to him was when he was composing most of the Jagjit singh's albums and had a definite role in giving a very modern feel to ghazal singing including introducing guitar. In parallel he collaborated with Gulzar in creating the master pieces songs for "Machis" , "Hu Tu Tu". "Itna Lamba Kash Lo" from Hu Tu Tu , "Pani Pani Re" from "Machis" are landmark songs.He worked with Gulzar in most of the movies in last 2 decades including "Chachi 420". While pursuing his music carrier i guess he wanted to create more challenges for him self and so he moved on the movie making. And after making "Makdee" he moved on to making "Maqbool "and "Omkara" in underworld crime saga genre.Probably these two are most perfect underworld movies made in Hindi along with "Parinda".While Vidhu Vinod Chopra's lost his way after "Parinda" , Vishal just went from strength to strength. His Creative footprint in all his movies was complete and all encompassing , he just not did direct the movie, he wrote the screen play, dialogues and also composed the music for all his . His ability to capture to perfection the local culture , dialect , costume of the place where his movies are based out of ranks him in parallel with Coppola and Sorcesse. Each frame comes out just perfect weather its the Urdu Speaking protagonist "Maqbool" or the hardcore bundelkhandi "Omkara" or the sweet Himachali "Nandu" in Blue Umbrella. "Mian Gulere Khaya Karo Juban Kaboo mein rhete hai" from Maqbool and "Saraat Ghodon per Lagate hain , Seron per nahin " from Omkara will remain in Hindi movie dialect forever, because of the sheer intesity with which they were conveyed and resulting chilling effect these had on the opponents and the audiance . Similar to Gabbar Singh in Sholay and Marlon Brando in Godfather I.
He has complete control over all aspect of movie making and what comes out from him is a complete package. Very few movie director rank close to him, last one of the was Satyajeet Ray. No reason why the rumor is Coppola has picked him to direct a portion of his upcoming movie.
Salute to Vishal Bhardwaj who i am sure will rank along side the best not only in india but across the world in time to come and personally i greatly look forward to his new movies.
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