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Thriller, Drama 148 min
Death... Fair and square.
Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They have to make four short story in this film with one common theme: Death.
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I don’t think if this can be called a meta-movie. It is something different. And special. This is not your usual “anthology”. This is a story of 4 directors, setting out to 4 short films revolving around the theme “death”, given to them by the mysterious producer. If you find this baseline to be interesting, wait till you watch the film. It is an enthralling experience from start to finish. Srijit Mukherjee, for my eyes, is a master story-teller. He weaves magic in the form entertaining stories. The film touches multiple genres, with a brilliant narrative structure. The narration is easily the best among Indian films in the past year. The skips, the cuts, time lapses, the transitions between real and reel are a pure treat to watch. For example, there is a scene where a director is narrating his story, and we are cut to a frame where the lead character is featured in the middle of a room. The director is seen to be placing articles in the room, apparently being in the process of production design or “art direction”. He is then interrupted by another director who is listening to the story, and the visual of the director inside his “character’s” room stops what he’s doing, turns aroun
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