Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal, Ayesha Mohan
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Producer: Zee Limelight
Lyrics: Piyush Mishra
Cinematography: Rajeev Ravi
Editing: Aarti Bajaj
Art Direction: Wasiq Khan
Story Writer: Anurag Kashyap, Raja Chaudhary,Aparna Chaturvedi
hat Anurag Kashyap has a predilection for doing a reality check for us with every film he makes, is no secret. But every time, he doesn't hit the bull's eye and with Gulaal, he has surely ended up with confused issues, themes and sensibilities.
The film revolves around a deeply entrenched identity crisis of the Rajputana, the macabre face of politics and a fierce obsession with power. And what Kashyap could have seamlessly sewed together as the lost identity syndrome and superiority complex of the 'so called' blue blooded clan of the caste ridden Indian society and its unrelenting battle for consolidation, turns out to be a hotch potch disconnected strain of events.
Known for his ability, much like contemporaries such as Kukonoor, to extract marvellous performances from new comers, Kashyap's new kid on the block, Raj Singh Chaudhary, adds no substance to his wimper like character. The movie stays afloat owing to infallible performances by Kay Kay Menon and Piyush Mishra. The prose and poetry ofcourse lend great colour to the Kashyap's sardonic take on youth politics and politics at large where blood dilutes to become water and all that remains is an incessant avarice for the quintessential 'KURSI'.
Overall, the movie delivers a vague message and ends in bewilderment and aimless death and destruction.
