After NALS, TGIYB is once again a kind of movie which will leave you awe-struck at the end. TGIYB is a kind of movie in which actors don't chase camera, rather camera chases actors. Personally speaking, till date I've not seen such a shocking story. It's very gutsy film with it's very nature. Lots of film-makers promote their movies saying it's something 'hattke' but when you watch it, you come out with the feeling of being cheated. But with TGIYB, it's not the case for sure. It takes a lot to make this genre of cinema with minimal of budget.
For Anurag Kashyap, I'm sure, it would have been very difficult to picturise his very own wife giving handjobs to other men. I remember when Ajay Devgn directed U, Me aur Hum, he was very insecure when the script demanded him to be shown having physical relationship with Kajol. In this light, Anurag Kashyap has shown lots of guts to break all the barriers of orthodox cinema making and has shown his wife in few of the steamy scenes. And let me be very frank here, the sex-scenes in TGIYB are not typical Emraan Hashmi kind of scenes which are otherwise full of lust and greed, but are very well emotion driven. While watching TGIYB and Kalki Koechlin's performance in it, one readily accepts that working in spa as a masseur can well be one's profession. But at the very same time, Anurag succeeded in pouring up the emotions into it. The very fact is that giving handjobs to men is not what any dignified girl would ever dream in her wildest fantasy. But, as I said earlier, TGIYB breaks all the orthodox thinking of contemporary film-making. One can feel the pain Ruth might me going through while doing all these shit thing.
As far as the story of TGIYB is concerned, it is very shallow. In the sense that, we are shown that there is this British girl called Ruth who is on a visit to India for a mission. And the mission is to find her Half Brit Half Indian father. But every frame of the movie is so engaging that you tend to sideline the story. You just want the movie to continue the way it is going. The main character in this film is only Kalki Koechlin. But the inclusion of actors like Piyush Mishra, Mushtaq Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Ronit Roy, Rajat Kapoor and Makrand Deshpandey makes you feel that 'now something extra-ordinary will happen' but sadly it doesn't. The actual and only twist of the movie come only in the end and it makes you go mad. You'll feel like "how can one guy be so pathetic". That, how can the definition of 'love' for someone be so dark.
I've travelled through lots of streets and lanes of Mumbai personally. But I never paid attention to what might be the 'secret' of those road/lane. Anurag seems to have well 'explored' this city! This is where Anurag excels at i.e. he pays damn attention to the fine detailing in every part of his film. For e.g. portraying the character of that Spa receptionist who talks over the phone in the entire movie to her FB friend.
This is not a Mumbai of glamour and glitz, nor is it about slime, grime, the basest elements in the underworld or extreme poverty. This is Semi-Middle Mumbai, where the builder who wants a “handshake” from Ruth is embarrassed at the demands he’s making, where Ruth likes to keep her floor spotlessly clean but can do nothing about those filthy walls. With the help of Rajeev Ravi’s atmospheric cinematography and Wasiq Khan’s production design, director Anurag Kashyap brings to us this disturbing Mumbai and his hemmed-in characters in a way only he can, with his distinctive sense of humour, in a style that’s as real and natural as it gets. Ruth is a particularly interesting creature – despite the abuse she is subjected to, she still manages to retain a certain feisty sense of independence that is almost inspiring. I particularly enjoyed hearing her dip into her constantly expanding Hindi vocabulary to tell a cheating autorickshaw driver: main firangan hoon isliye mujhe ch****a banane ki koshish mat karna.
Anurag has his very own kind of cinema to serve. He is somebody who always has one or the other character playing Drug Abused in his every film. This may be because he himself was a Drug Abused at one point of time. In Shaitain he portrayed what can be the Shaitaniyat one experiences being a drug addict and in TGIYB, I guess, he has shown his personal experiences [I'm pointing towards the scene in which Prashant locks himself up to get rid of drugs]. And talking about Gulshan Deviah, man! what a class actor we've been presented with by Anurag. He is such a darling when he portrays Chitti-Appa !! He brings out a classic cynical type of humour. The 'remote' scene and the scene where Chitti-Appa becomes CHUTIYAPPA are one of the main highlights of this movie! All in all, it's typical Anurag Kashyap-ish type of cinema which will leave you speech-less and shocked in the end. The music of the movie is also something that stands out with just one song which plays in the BG. The use of Bagpiper and Iktara provided lots of subtlety to the backdrop of the film. It's a cult film. You won't find such a film coming out of Hindi Film Industry for the years to come. I was personally very happy to see NFDC producing such a daring film. I guess NFDC stopped working in the 90s and 00s.
Three of the best scenes of TGIYB would be-
1st- The confrontation scene between Ruth and Prashant.
2nd- The emotional outburst of Ruth when she comes to know about who her father is.
3rd- The end scene between Ruth and her father.
CBFC Rating- A [don't know why they rated it Adults, may be coz of those handjob scenes, otherwise it's very emotional film]
Rating- 5*/5* [coz I don't find a single problem with this milestone piece of cinema].
P.S. Beware! It won't go down well with every other cinema goer. It's a request to all those brainy people, please watch it for Anurag. !00rs. toh bante hain boss Anurag ke naam pe !!
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