I will first say this – its not a movie for the masses, most likely it will bomb at the box office and watch it if you like Imtiyaz Ali’s work and movies that help you introspect.
Simply put its Imtiyaz Ali’s adaptation of 3 Idiots.
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Starring Imran Khan (Madhav- Maddy) and Kangana Ranaut (Payal). The movie is about a simple middle class seedha sadha kind of a guy (Maddy) madly in love with Payal, belonging to a page 3 kind of society, looking for some fun in college.
Drishyam is movie about Vijay Salgaokar (Ajay Devgn), a simple, 4th fail, villager who runs a cable network in the village and has gained knowledge and become smart (actually very smart) by watching movies. His family consists of his wife and 2 daughters. A self made man and very respected in the village. He is faced with a life changing situation and he has to use his imagination and creates an imagery to save his family.
Haider. As we know is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
To be or not to be ….. that’s the question that haunts haider all the time, all the while….
The movie is based in Kashmir at the peak of militancy in the mid 90s. (What an apt setting, the conflicts within the characters in a conflict zone)