The Last Lear - Wogma Readers Reviews

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I vehemently believe that you are being absurd in majority of the parts of your review for this movie. Your question, "what was it about?" is at the peak of utter absurdness. What was "Sholay" about? A widow who was falling in love? A woman who was a cart driver? A police officer who lost his hands? A dacoit who was defeated by two heroes? "A little bit of each, a whole lot of ultimately nothing."? How stupid your questions for The Last Lear sound is beyond any human to express. The movie is simply about how extreme passion can ultimately get to destroy oneself and the people related. Harry had to give up his life for the passion of "controlling" his scene himself, without any stunt man. Siddharth had to live on with a heavy guilt all his life due to his "perfect" climax. The three women were used as subplots. That is all. It was a perfectly sweet and beautiful film in the end.

PS: Your notes like for this movie were really interesting and magnificent. But your review really disappoints. Reflection suggested.

The film represents a major miscalculation in its adaptation of what must be a fairly static play and its use of Bachchan as an aging Shakespearian actor.
But it is still a pleasure to watch Mr. Bachchan declaiming lines from “ Lear” and rendering wisdom in his rich, stentorian voice. Honestly speaking,the script is extremely melodramatic, which is unexpected from a Ghosh's film.

I have a suggestion Meetu. Since the main blog now contains all sorts of articles - reviews, to-each-his-owns, pre-reviews, happy birthday etc, can we please have a link to "reviews by date posted" under the "Reviews Index" menu on the left hand side? This will only contain links to all the reviews, sorted by date, most recent on top. That will be really helpful and improve navigability on the website.

Guess....those who have seen Utpal Dutt ...doing a shakespearean play.....can only..recommend AB take his ....theatre..lessons...from the late Utpal Dutt.........

!!! Spoilers in this comment !!! I vehemently believe that you are being absurd in majority of the parts of your review for this movie. Your question, “what was it about?” is at the peak of utter absurdness. What was “Sholay” about? A widow who was falling in love? A woman who was a cart driver? A police officer who lost his hands? A dacoit who was defeated by two heroes? “A little bit of each, a whole lot of ultimately nothing.”? How stupid your questions for The Last Lear sound is beyond any human to express. The movie is simply about how extreme passion can ultimately get to destroy oneself and the people related. Harry had to give up his life for the passion of “controlling” his scene himself, without any stunt man. Siddharth had to live on with a heavy guilt all his life due to his “perfect” climax. The three women were used as subplots. That is all. It was a perfectly sweet and beautiful film in the end. PS: Your notes like for this movie were really interesting and magnificent. But your review really disappoints. Reflection suggested.

The film represents a major miscalculation in its adaptation of what must be a fairly static play and its use of Bachchan as an aging Shakespearian actor. But it is still a pleasure to watch Mr. Bachchan declaiming lines from “ Lear” and rendering wisdom in his rich, stentorian voice. Honestly speaking,the script is extremely melodramatic, which is unexpected from a Ghosh’s film.