The Last Lear (2008)
The film starts with the veteran thespian Harish Mishra, he is gravely ill. The punishments of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, keeps strangely distant and refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story emerges.
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Wow! Such a good movie.
It is a performances centric movie
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
I have read many reviews on this movie and all praises the work of Amitabh Bachchan but i particularly like the performance of Priety Zinta the most. The way she portrayed the character of Shabnam in the was just awesome.I particularly like her because i am a big fan of her from the time she came in the industry.I have seen all the movies given by planman productions and this is the best movie they had given in the past.The kind of actor who considers himself too good simply because he just cannot be bad.Each and every scene has been beautifully shot and the emotions of actors are beautifully relayed across the screen. Rituparno is fab as the director and has done a superb job.
The Last Lear is a movie directed by Rituparno Ghosh and is an awesome movie by planman motion pictures.I am happy that i have seen this movie.My main purpose of watching this movie is to watch our legendary actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan but more then him i like the plot of the movie.I am not much into movie,i am not a movie buff but really like the movie and really appreciate the work done by Rituparno Ghosh.He excellently convert the Shakespeare's play into the art movie.Although whole movie revolves around the character Harry played by Amitabh Bachchan but i also like the character of priety zinta and the way she acted in the movie was just mind blowing.
The Last Lear has been made beautifully.It gives us the feeling that you are watching a Shakespeare drama on a screen and I am saying this from my own experience in not just studying some of the bard's dramas, but also having acted in one many years back.The movie is in English and is an absolute treat for all those people who love watching movies specially art film. The story revolves around Harish Mishra, a retired Shakespearean theater actor who spent precisely thirty years and nine months on stage and then suddenly quit, and his first and last act as a cinema artist. He is immensely passionate about Shakespeare, believes that nothing even comparable can ever be written, knows all his plays by heart, lives in those stories, condemns modern cinema and considers theater as a much higher art form for directors and actors to convey their message to an audience.
The Last Lear and watching Amitabh Bachchan give a performance of a lifetime.Amitabh Bachchan as we all know is a versatile actor and is a mark of greatness in the Indian Film Industry.When we talk of acting, we generally think of delivering or presenting the role of a character of a story in front of the audience and playing the character in the most skillful manner possible so that more than anything else the viewers gets to know the character and the character sells the movie to all.In this movie Amitabh Bachchan was at his best.The best part of the movie was through this movie,all great actor director producer,Amitabh Bachchan,Rituparno Ghosh and Arindam Chaudhuri came together so there is no doubt about the brilliance of the movie.