Talaash: Short Review

Those posters were hard to miss. And so was the strange interaction between the protagonists. I am referring to the two movies, The Deer Hunter and Eraserhead. They have probably served as inspiration for the movie.

On the first look, it is clear that the movie is about closure. It is more about closing the chapters in life and trying to move on. It is also about the catharsis that preceded the closure. Deer Hunter is about Vietnam War. It is about how soldiers accept their defeat by dehumanizing their enemy. It was about how they adjust to failure and handle the self blame. In Talaash too, the principal protagonist is coping up with self blame and somehow finds a solution. In Eraserhead, the protagonist is surrealist. The movie itself is very hard to understand. Except for the fact, that the two stories have a child protagonist and the main character is somehow disturbed with it, I did not understand any other similarity. Eraserhead's music might have also inspired the back ground score but I am not sure. Eraserhead is a tough movie for me. 

The opening sequence is also quite poetic. The imageries are graphic-novelic and portray the city of dreams as the quintessential Sin City of the modern civilization. 

Overall the movie is worth a watch. Paisa Vasool as they say. There are no complexities in the narrative and it is linear. But it is well told and picture never drags. The story keeps you engaged till the end. The actors are superb. Nawazuddin Siddiqui has delivered a powerhouse performance and so did Rani Mukherji. For a change it is surprising to see bits of acting from Kareena. She does not look quite good though.