Last Lear Movie Review

Here is the film review of  the Last Lear. Director Rituparno Ghosh has managed to extract stellar performances from  Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal and Shefali Shah and Bachchan once again proves why he is a legend.

Excerpt from review:

The Last Lear is actually a series of dramatic dialogues sewn together in a pastiche that suggests pain to be the constant sublimal text of all human interaction.

The film is littered with luminous performances. If Divya Dutta is quiet and warm in her small role Shefali Shah simply takes over the screen each time she walks into the frames. Here’s an actress who forces you to watch her. And after Rock On Arjun Rampal delivers another pain-lashed performance, giving to the director’s role a resonance that takes it to an inexpected level of sensitivity.

As for Mr Bachchan, what words would describe his wordy praiseworthy character, as the Shakespearean rhetorics and senile cynicism flow out in an unstoppered show of a fading inner-glow?

His expressions of uncertainty as he’s forced to step out of his home into the arclights by the insistent director, or when he’s approached for an autograph or when he grovels on the floor in a drunken haze in front of his embarrassed director, show an actor at the peak of his abilities totally liberated of all starry vanity.