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Film
Review: Mast
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Reviewer:
Sapna Chhaya
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Mast
Cast:
Urmila Matondkar, Aftab Shivdasani,Dilip Tahil and Smita Jaykar
Producer & Director: Ramgopal Varma
Music: Sandeep Chowta
Theatrical release: October 15, 1999
Approximate Running Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Sapna.Chhaya's Rating: 4.5/5
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About
Movie:
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The movie starts with the young college lad Kittu (Aftab Shivdasani),who
spends less time in the classroom compared with obsessing
over his favourite Bollywood heroine, Mallika (Urmila Matondkar).
At home, Kittu talks to her posters on his bedroom wall, and
24-hours a day, he's day-dreaming about dancing with her,
and rescuing her from villains. Kittu's lack of interest in
studying leads him to a major family conflict with Daddy (Dilip
Tahil) and in a anger of obession and confusion,he leaves
his home to meet the woman of his dreams in Mumbai. In real
life meeting such stars is bit difficult but lucky for Kittu,
he gets the chance to talk face-to-face with her. He finds
her an innocent and lonely soul dancing at the words of her
evil Mama (Govind Namdev) and his evil family. (Similar to
Cindrealla) The rest of this entertaining tale shows how Mallika
and Kittu help one another realize one another's dreams. The
first half of the movie is more of dream sequence and stuffed
with songs. If you sit through this, you will be rewarded
since the second half is really good.
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Watching
'Mast' is like watching a crazy film fan and a fairy tale all
in one. Ramgopal Varma knows that film fans want a happy ending
for the film to work. Earlier on though, he brings forth images
and concepts which are all too much to believe. In heart of
every human there is too some extent this fanship alive which
makes us take our loved ones to see our fav stars in movies.
But how many of you know how unstable and emotionally insecure
the lives of most film stars are?
Varma shows us all this and more. You can take the film at face
value as an entertainer, but watch it carefully a few times
and you're sure to find lessons about life and humanity. Lending
able support to Varma's vision are deeply selected characters
and AftabS hivdasani (Kitu)shows as a bit young and aimless
when the movie opens, but as you watch the movie, you'll learn
that this bit of casting makes perfect sense considering Kittu's
immaturity and innocence. Urmila Matondkar(Mallika), looking
heavenly beautiful,just dances in kittu's dreams.When he finally
meets her, Urmila delivers a fine performance as an emotionally
and psychologically afraid innocent girl trapped by the family.
Dilip Tahil and the nowadays often seen mother, Smita Jaykar
are gracefully credible as Kittu's parents. The scenes in which
Dilip Tahil is shown a great fan of Rekha makes us really laugh.The
unknown actress who plays Kittu's sister is also nice.Neeraj
Vohra and his friends at the U-Turn Hotel are realistically
personified, while Govind Namdev demonstrates okay in role of
mama. Special mention goes to Antara Mali (Nisha) (photographer
Jagdish Mali's daughter) who delivers an excellent, natural
acting as Kittu's best friend and lover. Rarely you see new
comer deliver such lovely piece of acting in their first film.
Piyush Shah shows us the majestic visuals of South Africa and
Namibia through his camera lens.The choreographry (Farah Khan
and others) of slightly westernized dance adds to the perfection
of the songs. Urmila is all taking audiences in the female version
of "Main Mast". The music by Sundeep Chowta is simply marvelleous..few
lovely songs are "Ruke ruke si zindagi", "Asman kahta hai" of
all lovely songs. Ramgopal Varma Director and producer of film
has never disheartened by the flopping of his films like Daud
and Raat bombed and Kaun did average business. And it is this
healthy attitude which helps him deliver such great cinema one
film after another.
Ramgopal Varma has got the talent for presenting very cerebral
ideas in simple and very entertaining manner. Mast falls in
the category with Rangeela, those which are likely to be appreciated
by both the masses and classes. Did you know that Varma was
completely flattered by Sridevi in his younger years? Mast's
Mumbai rickshaw driver is periodically there to recount poor
Varma's story of love and disheartenment for not getting Sri
devi.
On whole though Mast is a bit of fairy tale but it is definetly
Mast see movie. |
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