Imagine if Barfi was stylized in Dark shades of colours. The atmosphere reminded of an upcoming doomsday all the time. How would have that made you feel?
This is the exact problem I had with LUDO. The storyline of the movie is not about something that kids would relate to unlike in Jagga Jasoos where it was unfolding like comic book chapters and it made sense why it had a particular visual style.
Here I get that the visual style resembles the Ludo board but it doesn't suit the narrative at all. If the colours could have been more darker and subtle, the actions taken by the characters could have made the right impact.
The other problem with Ludo is the narration. There was no need for Anurag Basu and Chitragupta to tell the audience explicitly that Ludo is life and life is Ludo and beginning of the movie because it summed up the whole movie in 5 minutes of the movie's runtime, after that there is nothing left to wonder or be surprised about because you know that the randomness is corresponding to Ludo's game. Even if you know that...so what? What do I do with knowing that it's all happening like a Ludo game. It would have been interesting if there was no explicit description by Anurag Basu at the beginning of the movie. That explicit narration killed the whole movie's purpose in the very beginning.
There are 4 story lines and out of which 2 stood out as interesting to me. The one involving Rajkumar Rao and Fatima Sana Shaikh and the other was that MMS scandal one. Apart from them, the other two stories were just...I don't know, didn't excite me at all.
Here I get that the visual style resembles the Ludo board but it doesn't suit the narrative at all. If the colours could have been more darker and subtle, the actions taken by the characters could have made the right impact.
The other problem with Ludo is the narration. There was no need for Anurag Basu and Chitragupta to tell the audience explicitly that Ludo is life and life is Ludo and beginning of the movie because it summed up the whole movie in 5 minutes of the movie's runtime, after that there is nothing left to wonder or be surprised about because you know that the randomness is corresponding to Ludo's game. Even if you know that...so what? What do I do with knowing that it's all happening like a Ludo game. It would have been interesting if there was no explicit description by Anurag Basu at the beginning of the movie. That explicit narration killed the whole movie's purpose in the very beginning.
There are 4 story lines and out of which 2 stood out as interesting to me. The one involving Rajkumar Rao and Fatima Sana Shaikh and the other was that MMS scandal one. Apart from them, the other two stories were just...I don't know, didn't excite me at all.