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12 September 2008 (USA) morePlot:
An aging Shakespearean actor takes on one of the bard's most challenging roles. Based on Utpal Dutt's play "Aajker Shahjahan". | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(9 articles)
Big B goes out of way to cheer Preity Zinta's Ipl team (From BollywoodWorld. 5 April 2009, 11:34 PM, PDT)
Preity Zinta’s big achievement
(From RealBollywood. 16 February 2009, 5:03 AM, PST)
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Nothing Rituparno about it moreCast
(Credited cast) | Amitabh Bachchan | ... | Harish 'Harry' Mishra |
 | Preity Zinta | ... | Shabnam |
 | Arjun Rampal | ... | Siddarth |
| Shefali Shetty | ... | Vandana |
| Divya Dutta | ||
| Jishu Sengupta | ... | Gautam |
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Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaFun Stuff
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[first lines]Gautam: The premier of your first film is always special, but not if Diwali is on the same day. People are generally busy with celebrations at home. It is unlikely that all the invitees will turn up - especially if it's an off-beat film.
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| The ending (spolier alert) | badmasho |
| Release Date | hrk_walt |
| Last Lear at London Film Festival | sumaya1975 |
| Rated G? | aashtivijh |
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When I watched "Raincoat" I thought "Satyajit Ray with commercial sensibilities" and needless to say I was excited about Rituparno Ghosh – Big B combo. "If not better than ¨Black¨ at least equal" was my expectation.
Rituparno is excellent when it comes to extraction the best in terms of performances, so lets not even go there.
The spoilt-sport is the content itself which fails to connect. Too many flashbacks hamper the narrative. The screenplay could have been sleek and execution more taut.
Yes, there are many layers to the characters in the movie but a few of them unwarranted leading to overkill. "Two is a party and three is a crowd", thereby one-to-one conversation between Preity & Shefali would have been apt. Divya Dutta's character was unwarranted, perhaps forced to drive the message of domestic violence and abuse.
Unlike others from the same clan, I expected Rituparno to be secular but guess he succumbs to blowing the trumpet. Too many Bengali references and unnecessary mouthing dialogues in Bengali.
O. Henry kind of ending was decipherable in "Raincoat" but in "The Last Lear" the open-ended question seemed more like a can of mysteries.