Teen Deewarein

After long a Hindi film, a Nagesh Kukunoor one at that. It seems to be on a different track than his earlier movies like Hyderabad Blues, Rockford and Bollywood Calling. The opening shot is an almost exact copy of Shawshank Redemption, the rest of it luckily is not.

Naseeruddin Shah is an actor par excellence, with his effortless acting he proves it once again in this movie. Jackie Shroff is okay, Nagesh Kukunoor is good, so is Juhi Chawla. Gulshan Grover is a much underrated actor, he shines as the police officer in charge of the prison. The dialogs in this movie made me aware how Indian English is a world apart from the kind of conversation we have here in US. The long drawn sentences between two people, the heavy content laden words used in India now seems kind of dramatic, like reading prose.