Ishqiya (2010) ****

My friend is pissed off with my pronunciation on the word Ishqiya ,some how the movie was postponed on a other friends request for watching together.All set when we tried the tickets we had to run theatre to theatre for seats.I regret of not watching it on the first day.Ishqiya will be the best movie of the year (though very early to comment ) for its superlative screenplay and the culture.Great directors bring culture to their presentation and make the movie a history,Quentin Tarantino does that often.Vishal Bharadwaj should be very proud of his assistant Abishek chaubey on his maiden venture and first it was Vishal’s Kaminey and now his script Ishqiya turning out as the finest in the recent times.

Ishqiya is a complex matrix of love and betrayal,Mafia .Set in Eastern uttarpradesh the movie moves around two individuals Khalujan (Nasurudeen shah ) and Bebbon (Arshad Warsi ) who run from their boses carrying his money and reach Krishna (Vidhyabalan) whose husband ,the duo’s old friend who gets killed in a fire accident.Krishna gets in to the hearts of both and it’s a war between love and lust for them.Krishna has a plan for both of them about escaping from their bosses through kidnapping local millionaire.Its gets complex and every body points gun on each other till the hide and seek is out.

Abishek Chaubey has to be applauded for bringing frivolous approach to filmmaking,he has a fresh way of telling things with a dark humour and intensity.He brings the cult culture and the flavour of UP in a unmatching style.This style of story telling is completely new to Indian cinema ,we have seen with Quentin Tarantino or Butch Cassidy and sundrance kid,There are traces of them also but we cant call it off completely as there is a clear inspiration of telling a fresh movie ! Ishqiya needs real skill for scripting and Vishal has become the most wanted in Indian cinema nowadays.This movie just proves why he has regarded as the finest movie maker in India.Screenplay builds the pace and it never fades away.Every aspect of Uttarpradesh gets in very aptly and it’s a real mastery the team has made a fantastic presentation on that.

If there is script and direction which gave the style and intensity ,the performances makes this movie one of the finest movie of recent times.Vidhya Balan is having a dream run,she is cunning ,seductive, expressive and brilliant.She makes the life of the duo in trouble and then puts them on the track .She runs the show for Ishqiya,I doubt any one would have done as brilliant as Vidhya.Its a amazing three performances ,Naserudeenshah goes underplayed intentionally for his age and character,Arshad throws away his lust on Vidhya in a very funny way .The three gives the humor for the movie too .

The fact this movie is dark but it remains as a clear and well crafted movie.There are amazing supporting charactes which give stability to the movie and the importance of the supporting characters and their dialogues are given greater evidence like in Kaminey.Ishqiya remain stylish and it puts the rural background for its culture and captures the urban practices.There are handpicked old Hindi songs which gets involved in the movie and travels along the characters.Music is out of the world.Dil to Bacha hai ji is getting in to my nerve and I am getting hooked.

If Gulzar,Vishal,Abishek team gives one movie a year ,It would definitely cheer the fans.We have great director in making with Abishek Chaubey .Raja san writes” If VB is the equivalent of Quentin Tarantino in Hindi cinema, safe to say with Chaubey, we have a Robert Rodriguez in the making.”and that’s 100% true