Amid of my headache i decided for some distraction, and then i opened the Netflix, there was recommendation for Super Deluxe, good word of mouth and suggested by many as path breaking cinema, i decided to indulge.
SD is indeed path breaking, it has many paths which breaks it into pieces. Taken from Tarantinos' cinema book, this is at best average attempt to pay homage to multiple stories linked with thin line genre, with almost the last best came back around in 2004, Sin City, which itself lives in the pale shadow of 1994's Pulp Fiction. [He did not directed Sin City]
Anyways, to cut long story short, multiple stories with non linear narrative is almost 10 years old even from Indian standard.... top of my head i think there were some movies, Nikhil Advanis, Salam-e-Ishq or may be Yun hota to kya hota .... both being disappointment in their own ways .. ., i am sure Kashyap would have done some work , just that cannot remember now.
SD relies on three emotional dialogues, which in a way defines the related characters, first , son calls his mother whore after seeing her in a porn movie at his friends place, second, husband agrees to police to have sex with his wife in exchange of freedom, third, transgender father who is now a mother, or may be she is no-one.
Problem is, none of them are new, or path breaking, in fact if my memory serves well, it is kind of decade old.
Scene 1:
"you are a whore"
mother son conflict being a whore is a genre than made career out of Vastaav and Hathyaar, in fact in hathyaar it was core base of late Raghu Bhais' son again becomes gangster irrespective of being "educated boxer" ..... and people that Mukaa-baaz was about reality of life ... be it Tabus conflict in chandni-bar or veerghati, where Salman being illegitimate child of hawaldar finds hard to deal with kamatipura, this conflict is old.
Scene 2:
"I think you should compromise, just think, you are using a toilet at highway"
This is how husband convinces his wife to have sex with police guy in exchange of freedom, again, this does not rattles you, reason, this genre is overdone with Mahesh Bhat's Second inning with Madhur Bhandarkar's whole career, and last i saw this was in 2013 in Ugly
Scene 3:
"Transgender Father"
Now this is what i was expecting magic, and it became a self guilt saga, for reference Tammana delt with Hijra father concept and later Sanjay Gupta had dedicated movie Pankh, which addressed this....
So does this mean, if a movie is made earlier should not be made ?
Well that is plain stupid, but the problem of Super Deluxe (SD) is that it is highly pretentious, It apes heavily to be A Tarantino movie, for reference, Husband and Wife engages in a day to day banter of traffic lights and govt problems , though in a lighthearted humor, when there is dead body practically sitting in the rear seat .... for that matter, RGV made a love making scene in from dead body, but the problem is director dumb down, "I a making a cool film", when Samantha says this out loud, but apparently its the audience who should feel it.
Second big problem is, it does not push the envelope where its predecessor has left ... the first scene brings a massive disappointment, what kind of passionate sex happens with girl wearing tank top ? at-least a bare back or body double was least expected. There is a word that Bhat Sahab uses for his product, "I titillate my audience" , unfortunately this does not.
Next is the kids story, people have gone by far worst deals of things to make money, it starts with City of Gold and ends up being Delhi Belly. With opening up of making money within a day, it could have pushed the envelope and tried City of God, but unfortunately it ends being Boothnath Returns without Amitabh
But SD has its moments, the entire scene of buying out "Mallu Cut" is thrilling, the description of identifying his mother from her mole was well pulled off, and the best was when father says, i felt doing the same when realized wife was a porn star. The entire take on evangelist and Jesus is refreshing and new, i wish there were much more such scenes
Take away from Husband-Wife conflict is the police guy, he is simply superb.
The entry of Manickam where she turns out to shilpa was outstanding, the old Gran Pa assumes Shilpa as Manichkam's second wife and calls it is fine to be little masculine in nature was witty.
Movie would have been much better had it been natural rather than pretentious, it begins with being casual, then suddenly attempts to be find conflict management and ends up being message oriented, "we all have conflicts, and best way to handle conflict is to embrace and accept" becomes little over dramatic from a casual movie.
All in All, watch this movie if you have not seen any of the above movies...
P.S - Ikka Seth from Veerghati (Manager of the Pleasure-house) , Maharani (Transgender) from Sadak , and City of Gold (Wife sleeps for Money) remains three of such characters that gets itched in your memory lane.
P.S.S while finishing my post, realized, even Faizu in Wassyepur ends to watching his mother opening her legs for Piyush Mishra..... and when in the end Faizu dies, Hema Quereshi, along with her kids, walks down with Piyush Mishra always gave me the goose bumps, knowing what Faizu will think...
P.S.S.S What the fuck was Alien Angle ?
SD is indeed path breaking, it has many paths which breaks it into pieces. Taken from Tarantinos' cinema book, this is at best average attempt to pay homage to multiple stories linked with thin line genre, with almost the last best came back around in 2004, Sin City, which itself lives in the pale shadow of 1994's Pulp Fiction. [He did not directed Sin City]
Anyways, to cut long story short, multiple stories with non linear narrative is almost 10 years old even from Indian standard.... top of my head i think there were some movies, Nikhil Advanis, Salam-e-Ishq or may be Yun hota to kya hota .... both being disappointment in their own ways .. ., i am sure Kashyap would have done some work , just that cannot remember now.
SD relies on three emotional dialogues, which in a way defines the related characters, first , son calls his mother whore after seeing her in a porn movie at his friends place, second, husband agrees to police to have sex with his wife in exchange of freedom, third, transgender father who is now a mother, or may be she is no-one.
Problem is, none of them are new, or path breaking, in fact if my memory serves well, it is kind of decade old.
Scene 1:
"you are a whore"
mother son conflict being a whore is a genre than made career out of Vastaav and Hathyaar, in fact in hathyaar it was core base of late Raghu Bhais' son again becomes gangster irrespective of being "educated boxer" ..... and people that Mukaa-baaz was about reality of life ... be it Tabus conflict in chandni-bar or veerghati, where Salman being illegitimate child of hawaldar finds hard to deal with kamatipura, this conflict is old.
Scene 2:
"I think you should compromise, just think, you are using a toilet at highway"
This is how husband convinces his wife to have sex with police guy in exchange of freedom, again, this does not rattles you, reason, this genre is overdone with Mahesh Bhat's Second inning with Madhur Bhandarkar's whole career, and last i saw this was in 2013 in Ugly
Scene 3:
"Transgender Father"
Now this is what i was expecting magic, and it became a self guilt saga, for reference Tammana delt with Hijra father concept and later Sanjay Gupta had dedicated movie Pankh, which addressed this....
So does this mean, if a movie is made earlier should not be made ?
Well that is plain stupid, but the problem of Super Deluxe (SD) is that it is highly pretentious, It apes heavily to be A Tarantino movie, for reference, Husband and Wife engages in a day to day banter of traffic lights and govt problems , though in a lighthearted humor, when there is dead body practically sitting in the rear seat .... for that matter, RGV made a love making scene in from dead body, but the problem is director dumb down, "I a making a cool film", when Samantha says this out loud, but apparently its the audience who should feel it.
Second big problem is, it does not push the envelope where its predecessor has left ... the first scene brings a massive disappointment, what kind of passionate sex happens with girl wearing tank top ? at-least a bare back or body double was least expected. There is a word that Bhat Sahab uses for his product, "I titillate my audience" , unfortunately this does not.
Next is the kids story, people have gone by far worst deals of things to make money, it starts with City of Gold and ends up being Delhi Belly. With opening up of making money within a day, it could have pushed the envelope and tried City of God, but unfortunately it ends being Boothnath Returns without Amitabh
But SD has its moments, the entire scene of buying out "Mallu Cut" is thrilling, the description of identifying his mother from her mole was well pulled off, and the best was when father says, i felt doing the same when realized wife was a porn star. The entire take on evangelist and Jesus is refreshing and new, i wish there were much more such scenes
Take away from Husband-Wife conflict is the police guy, he is simply superb.
The entry of Manickam where she turns out to shilpa was outstanding, the old Gran Pa assumes Shilpa as Manichkam's second wife and calls it is fine to be little masculine in nature was witty.
Movie would have been much better had it been natural rather than pretentious, it begins with being casual, then suddenly attempts to be find conflict management and ends up being message oriented, "we all have conflicts, and best way to handle conflict is to embrace and accept" becomes little over dramatic from a casual movie.
All in All, watch this movie if you have not seen any of the above movies...
P.S - Ikka Seth from Veerghati (Manager of the Pleasure-house) , Maharani (Transgender) from Sadak , and City of Gold (Wife sleeps for Money) remains three of such characters that gets itched in your memory lane.
P.S.S while finishing my post, realized, even Faizu in Wassyepur ends to watching his mother opening her legs for Piyush Mishra..... and when in the end Faizu dies, Hema Quereshi, along with her kids, walks down with Piyush Mishra always gave me the goose bumps, knowing what Faizu will think...
P.S.S.S What the fuck was Alien Angle ?
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