When you see the casting of the film with Amitabh Bachchan and Rituparno Ghosh as the lead actor and director you will be intrigued to watch it.And when you see the storyline based on Shakespeare,you will be amazed more and more.This is one art film that you can not afford to miss.It's an intriguing movie in typical Ghosh style, where people quietly sit and talk and the narration is by means of flashbacks. The story is that of an ageing and ailing stage actor being persuaded to act in a movie, which happens to be his last, and has been left in a coma as the aftereffects of the shooting. Amitabh Bachchan has delivered an intense performance. Preity Zinta's role is her most un-bubbly one, and her English dialogues are only slightly better than the rest of the cast, in which case they sound like recitals. Out and out an AB film. Watch it for him. The back-story scenes of Siddarth and Harry meeting in Harry's flat, quoting Shakespeare and bonding over watching guys relieve themselves against the wall outside on the closed-circuit TV Harry has installed, are comical and moving.It is an amazingly beautiful film with awesome script.
Review of The Last Lear
