After being released from prison, he wishes to reconnect with his daughter but fate has other plans. Abhishek Bachchan plays Bittu, a local thug who's also a single dad. Pearle Maaney also delivers the goods with aplomb, never for once overdoing the Mallu gimmick. Tripathi truly knocks it out of the park enacting serious stretches laced with plenty of dark humor. Part of this segment also features Rohit Suresh Saraf as a hypermarket employee and Pearle Maaney as a Malayali nurse (with all her innate Mallu-ness). Pankaj Tripathi leads from the front as gangster Sattu, who's involved in a big-money deal. This is largely due to several knockout performances we come across in the film's 2.5-hour runtime.
The good thing about it is that each segment holds good as a standalone as well as part of a meshed storyline. Not just a dark comedy of errors, the four different pieces of Ludo overlap into each other by way of clever conception and scripting. Ludo is the kind of film that works because it embraces dank humor early on and rides off all the way into the sunset with it. Overall, Ludo is just another average flick saved by some funny scenes even though at early stage it was way ahead of expectations. How disappointing it was to see this surprisingly good film going down as expected before those surprises. Anurag Basu first promises you a clever film set in dramatic mess and then himself makes dumb moves to solve the mess. Ludo could have been a great anthology if there was no melodrama and dumb romance because in crime dramas you don't want typical emotions to jeopardize entire smart narrative. No doubts, the dialogues make you laugh, make you think sometimes even though the presentation of that particular scene is rough. Dialogues are too funny and has vulgar touch, afterall it's Netflix and without abusive language they are incomplete.
However, couple of songs are damn boring and useless which fooled the editor's eyes. Ludo is 150 minutes long film and still has enough grip to hold you on your seat. The destruction of characters feels strong in last 30 minutes when they are seen doing rubbish and insensible things. It's the writing of the characters which doesn't show same cleverness to every character, some are blessed with intelligence while some are cursed and totally destroyed. The supporting cast is okay but most importantly everyone has got enough screentime to make an impact. Acting wise as already mentioned Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi are the table toppers followed by Aditya Roy Kapoor, Fatima Sana Sheikh and Sanya Malhotra.
Ludo gains more momentum with the narration theory handled by Yamraj and some adult stuff involved in it. The rest of the characters are normal yet connectable because of simplicity. Especially, Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi have got some hysterical and interesting dialogues.
Every charcter is established perfectly and almost every character provides some genuine laughters and hilarious scenes. The introduction scenes of this big cast takes lot of time but not harmful at all due to entertaining and engaging storytelling. Ludo has multiple stories connected to each other somehow, some way, somewhere and so the plotting settles nicely at the beginning. When there were no expectations after goofy trailer, Ludo was unexpectedly looking a clever film and was almost certain to end as an Unexpected Diwali Dhamaka and suddenly last 20-25 minutes pulled it down to join the said elite club. Now it's fair to say that the new joining in the list is this human anthology directed by Anurag Basu called Ludo. But these OTT releases saw huge drop in number of audience and in quality of films.
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Movie Review - Since the corona pandemic and lockdown bollywood audience has got literally nothing watchful that can be enjoyed like a real good film and then some films tried to gain benefit through OTT release.