Lajja marathi serial cast for finger tv#

He subsequently confesses to the cops that he didn’t see a thing, and soon after, he’s reciting thunderous “ Zulm ke khilaaf awaaz uthani padegi” dialogue in front of the camera, that it’s time to raise your voice against injustice. The film gets going with a sort-of reenactment of the Jessica Lal tragedy two rich kids gun down a girl in a nightclub – she won’t encourage their advances – and walk out coolly, in the direct line of sight of every eye in the vicinity, including Ashfaque’s. Unfortunately, a lot of Halla Bol does – and in ways it may not have, a couple of decades ago. It may not be the best of performances, but it’s to Devgan’s credit that he doesn’t end up looking ridiculous. But most other times, his brief is to highlight, make bold, underline and italicise such messagey passages as the one where he refuses to play the minority card – he’s being targeted by Hindus Muslim politicians advise him to allege that he’s being persecuted due to his religious beliefs – because he lives in a country where a Muslim was President and where a Sikh is Prime Minister. Devgan has a few nice, unguarded moments – like when he sees himself on screen for the first time and tells his girlfriend Sneha (Vidya Balan) that there seems to be some sort of projection problem, and she points out that it’s just his eyes that are misting over with emotion.

Lajja marathi serial cast for finger tv#

At the beginning, when a breathless TV reporter announces the arrival of “the greatest action hero… the superstar,” Ashfaque shrugs off the extravagant praise by describing himself a “ chhote se shehar ka mamooli sa aadmi.” Is there another leading man you could pin this label to, another contemporary star who looks as if he bucked the odds and made it despite being a nondescript bloke from a nondescript town?īut having cast the right man for the right part, Santoshi goes terribly wrong in making his hero shoulder that most dreaded of actorly burdens – that of becoming a mouthpiece for the screenplay’s conceits. At his current rate of physical attrition, I’m afraid he’s going to end up a stick figure in a game of hangman – and I’m not sure how he’s going to summon up charm and life out of those sunken eyes in romantic films such as the upcoming U Me Aur Hum (though the just-released promo of this film directed by Devgan appears almost as anorexic, peppered with beyond-clichés about “ pyaar karna” and, yawn, “ pyaar nibhana”).Īt the same time, I can’t think of any other star playing street-theatre actor Ashfaque (who’s rechristened Sameer Khan when he enters the movies) in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Halla Bol. The actor was never really one to be described as heavy, but in films like Company, there was at least something robust about him, a halfway-commanding physical presence – and that’s increasingly been replaced with a hollowed-out tiredness, as if liposuction had been performed on a man who, in fact, needed to be prescribed a daily diet of ghee and gulab jamuns.

– WHATEVER IT IS THAT’S KEEPING KAJOL OCCUPIED during the long gaps between her films these days, it certainly isn’t laying out sumptuous meals for husband Ajay Devgan. If only he’d shaken awake his storytelling skills too…

Rajkumar Santoshi is back, trying to shake awake our collective conscience.