The narrative spares no smiles and laughter
In one notably savage attack, a petty gangster infiltrates a jail cell and pounds an inmate to a pulp after shooting him.The narrative spares no smiles and laughter in portraying Gawli as a reluctant gangster forced to pull the trigger against his better judgment. Audiences and the character that you are playing, plus their close associates, judge the performance with scrutinized harshness and normally find it wanting. Consequently, many of the dark disturbing characters are lost to us. Rampal plays Gawli as a time bomb waiting to explode.Rampal plays it straight. This is a power-packed implosive performance. The shootouts and here I would like to commend action director Shyam Kaushal, are brutal, terse and to the point.I would call it a tour de force but for the abject absence of flamboyance in the presentation.
He is the only recognizable face (provided his physical and emotional transformation leaves any beads embroidery machines Factory room for recognition) in the vast cast of what I suspect to be several real-life anti-socials. There is no room here for any actor, least of all Rampal, to strut with guns and appear even remotely macho. It is a difficult but finally hugely rewarding experience.So heres what we do: watch the film very very closely.Does he owe you money? Why are you after his life? she mumbles. If you are looking for a stylish take on gangsterism, look elsewhere.In one brilliantly conceived shootout, the policeman Vijaykar (Nishikant Kamat, unrecognizable) ceaselessly on Gawlis trail, interrogates Gawlis mother (veteran Usha Naik).
The killers do their business with swift professionalism leaving no room for self-congratulatory paeans to violence that Tarantino, Coppola and nearer home, Mukul Anand and Mani Ratnam have specialized in. The sounds of death, violence, corruption and decay are omniscient in this saga of a man who would rather be a messiah. Other people associated with his life tell the rest. For sounds and visuals that do not afford us the luxury of aesthetic gratification.
