Ludo Movie Review: Excellent performances and direction works in this complex dark comedy film
Ludo Movie Rating: 3 stars
Just watched Ludo movie on Netflix. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Rohit Saraf, Fatima Sana Sheikh, Sanya Malhotra, Pearle Maaney, Inayat Verma, Asha Negi, and Shalini Vats
Director: Anurag Basu
Release Date: 12th Nov on Netflix
Story: It is the story of quirky characters and how their life gets interlinked in a series of bizarre circumstances. Bittu (Abhishek Bachchan) works under don Sattu (Pankaj Tripathi). He breaks free from Sattu as he wants to lead a happy married life. He is married to Asha (Asha Negi) and has a daughter, Ruhi (Myrah), whom he dotes on. However, his past life catches up with him and he is jailed. Rather than waiting for him to be released, Asha marries another guy (Bhanu Uday) who accepts her daughter too. Asha’s husband is picked up by Sattu’s men as he owes Sattu money. Asha pleads with Bittu to help free her husband.
Dr. Akash Chauhan (Aditya Roy Kapur), who lives with his elder brother and sister-in-law, is a ventriloquist whose video of sexual intercourse with Shruti (Sanya Malhotra) has gone viral. Since Shruti is about to get married to a very rich boy (Aman Bhagat), and because Akash does not want Shruti’s reputation o be tarnished, he and his lawyer-brother (Milind Dhaimade) approach Sattu to help them delete the video so that no more harm can be done to Shruti. On her part, Shruti joins forces with Akash to legally catch the culprit who seems to have made the video in the hotel room where they had been. Even till three days before her marriage, Shruti spends a couple of days with Akash.
Alok Gupta (Rajkummar Rao) was in love with Pinky (Fatima Sana Shaikh) but she had gotten married to another guy, Manohar (Paritosh Tripathi), and now has a baby boy too. However, Aalu has not been able to get over Pinky after all these years. Pinky’s husband is a womaniser and his current flame is one Sambhavi (Geetanjali Mishra). He is arrested by the police for two murders. Pinky rushes to Aalu for help. Aalu is ever-willing to oblige Pinky by coming to Manohar’s rescue.
Rahul (Rohit Saraf) works as a counter salesman in a store but lands with Sattu. Sheeja (Pearle Maaney) is a Malayali nurse who works in a hospital. Except for the head nurse (Shalini Vats), all the other nurses make fun of Sheeja. Rahul and Sheeja meet quite by chance and they are able to lay their hands on tons of money.
Mini (Inayat Verma) is a little girl who craves for the attention of her parents (Varun Verma and Mamta Verma). She plans her own kidnapping and, by sheer chance, meets Bittu. Since Bittu is already missing his own daughter, Ruhi, he becomes extremely fond of Mini. And, of course, underworld don Sattu is at the centre of many of these stories. What happens in the end? How do these stories of Bittu, Akash, Aalu, Rahul, Mini and Sattu intersect?
Positives
1. Abhishek Bachchan and supporting cast excellent performance
2. Climax
3. Cinematography
4. Music
5. Direction
Negatives
1. Complex story
2. Lengthy
3. Screenplay
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer it looks very interesting and thought either it will be very good or very bad as movies with multiple stories does not work many times.
But this movie managed to meet the expectations. Excellent acting, music and most important direction works in the favor of this film. Although length could have been shorter as it might bore you in sometime and you need to have much attention to understand this complex story. On the whole, it is an engaging entertainer. While classes will like the film, the audience which comprised front-benchers among the cinema-going public will not find it very interesting. Had it released in the cinemas, it would have done very well in the multiplexes of the big cities. Recommended
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