RGV's Not a Love Story is way better than Dhulia's latest offering Sahib Biwi aur Gangster. Despite the quirks, RGV retains a vocabulary, an inventive spirit that speaks through the frame. Dhulia's film is stale on all accounts, poorly told, badly scripted, horribly enacted (with the moderate exception of Jimmy Shergil and an extraordinary performance by the Vidhayak who also featured superlatively in Haasil), and pointlessly configured from beginning to end.
Unfortunately what would mark brilliant camera consciousness and Indian cinema's only legitimate claim at haptics gets diffused due to RGV's overdoing the quirky-ness with some very awkward camera placements. Also, both films underline once again Indian Cinemas' single greatest failure: a remotely affective/effective love/sex scene. RGV does well on that account too but it requires a deeper study as to why across all kinds and forms of cinema, we fail to get the basics of lovemaking right. Is there a deeper reason there?
Unfortunately what would mark brilliant camera consciousness and Indian cinema's only legitimate claim at haptics gets diffused due to RGV's overdoing the quirky-ness with some very awkward camera placements. Also, both films underline once again Indian Cinemas' single greatest failure: a remotely affective/effective love/sex scene. RGV does well on that account too but it requires a deeper study as to why across all kinds and forms of cinema, we fail to get the basics of lovemaking right. Is there a deeper reason there?
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