Frenetic, racy, and extremely focussed, Bollywood’s latest release ‘A Wednesday’ plays to the gallery. The Naseeruddin Shah starrer film also has a social message and that is what takes it from the purely commercial to a film with a heart in the right place. Watch it and you will know what I mean.
But don’t expect it to be some offbeat art cinema that isn’t entertaining. Far from it. It’s entertaining from the moment you see Naseeruddin Shah planting a bag inside the police station facing the police commissioner’s office.
Yes, you guessed it right. It’s a film on how a ‘terrorist’ tries to shake up the police establishment by ordering them to release four feared terrorists in exchange for information on the five bombs he has planted in various parts of Mumbai, so they can defuse them.
Watch it for the gritty police methodology. You will even get to be inside the mind of the police commissioner and how he works out strategies during an emergency like this one. Anupam Kher does a great job at this, but the one walking away with all the honours is Naseeruddin Shah as the bomb planter.
Buy it, steal it, do whatever you can. But watch it somehow!
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