As it was expected, Gulaab Gang witnesses the war of two leading Bollywood actress on their time. The movie is all about the war between good and evil power and Madhuri Dikshit and Juhi Chawla both have dome complete justice with their role in the much awaited and hyped movie.
Writer-director Soumik Sen has succeeded in bringing both the actresses Madhuri and Juhi in single movie with strong script and direction. He has designed as a flamboyant loud and message-driven film on women empowerment.In parts it looks like a government-sponsored documentary on rural development with Madhuri in it to ensure people care and respond to the message.
This would be as good as any place to reveal that the makers' claims that the film is NOT based on Sampat Pal's missionary zeal, is blatantly untrue. From the colour of the saree to the whole idea of making the male species look and feel really really saree..sorry, sorrry...Bro, this is Sampat's kingdom all the way.
If you have any doubts on that score, check out Nishtha Jain's excellent documentary Gulaabi Gang clevery released to preempt this imposter's endeavour.
The problem is Madhuri Dixit hardly looks like the rural Mata Hari-Om. She tries hard. Oh boy! Does she try! The Yankee twang is put away firmly from public view and replaced by a sexy village tongue that rolls out stinging jibes at corrupt netas, male and female villains who enunciate cheesy lines with the lip-smacking relish of junior artistes in Prakash Jha's trademark parables of rural oppression.
Trouble is, debutant director Soumik Sen's vision lacks the socio-historical perspective of Jha's cinema. Sen's conscience bleeds all over the place. He seems to invest a great deal of idealism in his saga of girl power. But he forgets to apply brakes on his narrative so that very often the plot hurls forward in uncontrollable spasms of sarcastic stock-taking.
Scene after scene pitching the smug social reformer Rajjo (Madhuri) against the conniving politician Sumitra (Juhi) is piled on to the plot. The effort to make the battle look epic in scale is weighed down by the cornucopia of cliches that flows out of the writer's pen liberally, as though the writer believes the corrupt can be vanquished simply by portraying them as cardboard cut-outs, like the ones that greet netas at public rallies.
Madhuri has her moments. Her face is definitely more mobile and emotive here than it was in her other recent release "Dedh Ishqiya" where she stood strangely sterile and detached in her redolent ambience. But her performance and demeanour are inconsistent. Some of the actresses in her girl gang like Tannishta Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose and Divya Jagdale are interesting in their enthusiasm to blend into the theme.
Film: "Gulaab Gang"
Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla
Director: Soumik Sen
(With inputs from IANS)
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