One Upon a time in mumbai..
I may start off with my favorite dialogue in the film that I could remember... "Agar aaj ka kaam kal pe chchodunga to aaj naraaz ho jayega..".. Seems a new way to say kabir's doha.. "kaal kare so aaj kar... Aaj kare so ab..", of course in a very "Don-n-ish" style..
Before the interval, the film was slow.. then after the interval it did not give a chance to "walk along"... It just rushed, missing on a lot of points..I, previously read a lot about Dawood and Haji Mastan ( before OUATIM's release... ) .. and was pretty exited about how their lives would be portrayed in the movie... I entered the hall with the anticipation that the movie would show more of Dawood's life and his deeds, but it was a mixture of Dawood's and Haji Mastan's life.. More of Haji Mastan's than of the former.. In the end you see a phraze, which I feel is the base of the film – ‘behind the myth is the city’s greatest betrayal story’... The betrayal part was very short... The movie could have been more enjoyble, had they shown the betrayal part more than the rest of "zameer" and the palpable drama... Because that is the portion where the spicy part is.. Rest is so much overt... I could relate Emraan in "OUATIM" to the Emraan in "JANNAT".. both the characters running after money... showing daredevilry for love... In Jannat.. Emraan broke the window of the jewelry shop n in this he stole it from a doctors place.. In both the films, wrong ways were adapted to win the most rational thing in the world, love, which according to me is not much dependent on all this stuf.,. If it is dependent, then it is not love.. Apart from that.. if one has a sound knowledge about the life stories of Dawood and Haji Mustan, one could find the movie boring and incomplete, as not much has been shown.. but for general public.. it is an entertaining movie.. The whole set, the big odd ugly sunglasses.. huge sidelocks.. old mercedes, which one could get for some 70k bucks... resembles the era of 70s ... The crucial figures I found missing in the film were.. Basu Dada of Telli Mohalla..Bauji Saheb and Rama Naik, with whom Dawood then formed an alliance to balance the power equation with BAsu Dada as he had musclemen in his akhada.. ...Samad Khan, Syed Batla and Amirzada were nowhere in the movie...
Next time,, I think a movie could be released that could show much more than shown in D-company, Satya n OUATIM....... may be with the name... "Mumbai ka don kaun ? ? ?"..... :)
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