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. Read more »

Sometimes having the Bachchan last name is a curse more than a boon! MNS leader Raj Thackeray has been targeting the Bachchans time and time and honestly speaking its quite despicable.

Thackeray goons today attacked a multiplex that was playing the Last Lear as retaliation for comments made by Jaya Bachchan that he alleged were anti-Maharashtra.

The premiere of Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘The Last Lear’ was today called off after suspected MNS activists attacked a suburban multiplex, which was to host the event.

“The premiere had been called off due to security reasons. The decision was taken following the attack on multiplex by a small group of miscreants this morning,” Shubho Shekhar Bhattarcharjee, CEO of Planman Motion Pictures, producers of the movie, said. Read more »

Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear sees Amitabh Bachchan dabbling in Shakespeare. The film revolves around a theater thespian (Bachchan) who is on his deathbed. The Last Lear premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9 and also stars Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Read more »