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A Brilliant Conflict

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie is very good thriller and awesome.The story is very different and good.The story is about a man who is badly addicted to smoking and in order to quit smoking visits a rehabilitation centre and finally he is released from there after being warned that his family will be killed if he dares to smoke again and......The direction is superb from Anurag Kashyap.The screenplay was good.The editing locations and dialogues were awesome.And the acting was awesome from John Abraham and paresh rawal acted good too.Its a must watch movie guys.Hats off to all the makers of this film.A very different thriller.Bollywood should make more movies like this.

Bad remake of Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985). Perhaps people have not seen Cat's Eye. And Anurag K. never mentions it in all his interviews as well. Come on Bollywood directors, come up with some original ideas. Your stealing from movies that are not popular amongst today's audience does not make you genius. There are hundreds of stories of Indian soil, which you can pick up for adaptation. Coming back to the movie. The movie is lifted from the aforementioned English movie, and made it more gory to the extent of being boring. Direction was below average, screenplay was dark, acting of Paresh, John and Ayesha were average, music was dull. Anurag is overrated as a director, just because his so called realistic choice of movie selection. He decorates the movie with skilled actors and gets all the accolades. I would any day prefer a Thigmanshu movie over Kashyap's.

Though quality movies never get the attention and appreciation they deserve(thanks to glamor of crappy star studded movies),this is one of the most under rated movie made in India. It's a fine piece of art which carries the viewer through imagination of the protagonist and at points events are expressed very subtly. Anurag Kashyap is the best director around but unfortunately six years back the audience was too immature to understand or value his work. Warning : For those who like glamorous crap from Hollywood/Bollywood this movie can drive them insane.It's for a limited audience who prefer and enjoy watching something like french cinema and quality works of art..

For all those illiterates (the numbers of these great unwashed I do not doubt, it is hardly surprising that the movie bombed) who give it 1-2 stars and talk about preserving sanity, a question: Ever heard of Franz Kafka? I saw this movie just after I had read The Trial and The Castle back-to-back. It is a brilliant tribute to the genius of Kafka: I wonder that is what Anurag Kashyap intended in the first place. The plot follows the same twists and turns that one would have in a Kafka novel, particularly the descent to meet the Baba. It is not just any shady place, it is a passage from The Trial faithfully replicated: when K first approaches his accusers (note the name: another Kafka hallmark). Sheer genius. Both the original writer, and the film-maker.