It's great to see Bollywood coming out of age and making great art film in different language.For some time I hoped Preity Zinta, cast as Shabnam, an actress Harry's co-star in the film he is making, would be given something like this to do that used the mature intensity I thought I saw in her. The Last Lear takes the 75-year-old Harish Mishra and us eventually and starkly into some of the themes of King Lear, not that you have to know the play to be affected by his performance as a retired Shakespearean stage actor in Calcutta, persuaded to take his first film role by Siddhartha, the hotshot young director played by Arjun Rampal.Arjun is superb as Siddharth and this is among his best. Rituparno is fab as the director and has done a superb job.Its an amazing art film and among the rarest art film that I have seen.
Review of The Last Lear
