विचारों के बुलबुले...

Hey happy to see that junta is seeking for my 2nd PAF review,so here it is...
Before the start of IPL Ganguly said,"हम बोल के नहीं कर के दिखायेंगे"...u know गांगुली तब भी बोल ही रहा था,bt here unlike KKR, 3+9 were well determined to do something...so no trailer like things direct PAF...बोला तो नहीं कर के दिखाया क्या?...dats y this review is...

'कुछ भी अपने में बहुत ज्यादा extra-ordinary नहीं है,और कुछ भी अपने में बहुत ज्यादा ख़राब नहीं है'
'Prod में एक बहुत ही नयी चीज़ है,there involves a little bit of tech,a little bit of FA & a little bit of Prod' 'हर आदमी अपनी-अपनी जगह सही है,अगर एक चोर किसी के घर में जाके चोरी करता है तो वो भी अपनी जगह  सही है' (was dat ur theme about???)
'हम अपनी कहानी से पहले जन-गन-मन गवा के लोगों को खड़ा नहीं करेंगे'(involving national anthem in the PAF was really so bad?Isn't it an aggressive mode towards a gud thing?)
'इस बार PAF में H3 मचाने वाला है' (H9 जनता देख लो ये H3 वाले सारा credit PAF से पहले ही ले गए)

(Now national anthem became 1 time attempt instead of being part of tradition,so no column abt it today,u know इतिहास हमेशा सफल लोगों के तलवे चाटती है,असफल आन्दोलनकर्ता विद्रोही कहे जाते हैं)

Now a new column.What every one is appreciating in this PAF is execution execution & execution...Except at some points what the team prepared,they executed very smoothly and at the same time in a very tight way.And the exceptions are...almost @ every transformation of one scene to another...and the second one exception I felt was a blackout of more than 30 sec with nothing(no music no voice-over...),bt these exceptions were of no meaning when Junta was with the Team.

The simple & literal story was the issue involved with the importance of date 22nd march 'World Water Day'.It clearly shows the extent of planning of the script team that the date of PAF did matter for them.In larger picture it was a sarcasm over the issue of migration of North Indian people in Mumbai.One of the most sensitive issue nowadays(spcly for politicians).I think this was the 1st attempt of use of sarcasm up to 80 % in any PAF.So cheers to the man behind the concept.But,now time for a surgical operation of the 'attempt'.It never matters that what the team is interpreting with the story,what interpretation naturally flows from the story to Junta always matters.Let me see what this natural flow is saying...North Indian 'migrants' are like villain in the story,they break rules,use resources of bhole-bhale 'Mumbaikar',the protester(lead hero,a Mumbaikar) was given 'गाँव-निकाला',he left his 'गाँव' in the hand of those villains and went to bring improvement into the 'गाँव' of those villains...So what I am saying to the Team is if u were creating this story with a good feeling & without taking sides,u need to re-examine
ur story and characters,they didn't take care for ur feelings.


Now I am going to forget the above discussion for the rest of columns(like every one did because of the well-executed performance).Most of the script was humour-based,
I will not say it a matured humour(many times it had smell of Stand-up type of punches) bt it was intelligent enough to take audience in the team.The story moved from start to end very smoothly(as earlier I said that I forgot the 'concept & Story' section),bt I wud like it more if It were 100% sarcasm(i.e.,without the Kataria-Gopu debate part).There were Fatte related to the story,Fatte not related with the story(IIT Fatte,related to audience) and some double meanings(Dont u remember 'भैंस का दूध निकालते वक़्त भी...' & 'बड़ी स्वादिष्ट है हमारी...').Almost every one Fatta got warm welcome from the audience as well as from the Profs(bcz I saw some Profs with 'जोरदार ठहाका' for the XX grade fatta).At the same time script team crossed limit slightly at some places...for example,The name 'Kataria' and the dialogues regarding this name create a countable part of humour...bt when the story went on a serious turn,this name was making dialogues light-weighted.And also u should know that its not a name,Its a surname,and I have seen one 'kataria' senti for it,and obviously everyone must regard this sentiment...another example was the use of names 'IIT Tharakpur' & 'IIT Tharki'(Hey its not ur Room or ur Hostel Lounge,It was OAT of an IIT).In last scenes the water-harvesting seq was also innovative and nice to watch(it wud be far better if the guy pouring water at the roof of the Hut and his bucket were not visible.).Adding one last point that It is not enough to give a perfect end to the story bt we should ensure that every scene must end in perfection.There were cases of non-smoothness at the end of scenes.

I must salute to these two team,a great work & a great example of perfect co-ordination.What i felt the positive energy behind this is perhaps all actors were directed by their voice-overs.And we know the Gems Dabri,Moody,Raghuveer etc were in the Voice-over team.I observed one more thing.Normally one person gives voice-over for my actors.Here also this was the case,bt the unique thing was the voice-over of 'Kataria' was given by two persons Bagla and Moody(in XX,Amavasya & Shauchalaya seq.) according to the situations which came brilliantly in front of audience.I must again salute to Dabri(I thought that voice-overs are being given by Sappy,bt it was Dabri) & the 'Shakuni' Mama(everywhere and every sec he was in chracter and once Dabri had slip of tounge which 'Mama' handled by his act.)Raghuveer and RSB were also gud in various voices.The 'Gopu' himself and his voice-over also were weak at some places.In summary,It was nice to be an audience in front of this great combination of VO-Actor team.
I must say brilliant work by the music team and also great work by the choreo team.I liked every piece of music.The Holi song 'आई शगुनिया होली',the Title song and the 'लौहपथगामिनी' song were well written composed and performed.But execution of 'लौहपथगामिनी' and the piece 'Nikal padi' cud have been better.An appreciable work was also done by the sound-forging team.At some places it had some minor problem bt those were neglegible.For choreo team,performance at 'shaguniya holi' was very much entertaining and had enough 'मस्ती' so one can easily imagine the 'हुल्लड़' of 'होली'.The UV seq was very much unique and appreciable with open arms.The 'Panchhi' formation took everyone with it in the Sky.The overall work of music & choreo team also deserves a grand salute.

Prod & FA work-
The prod team gave IIT a memorable Kali Mata-Tree rotatable prod,which rotated everyone's eyeball with itself every time when it was rotating.Again change of prod on central stage with scenes like first PAF bt unlike the first one with good execution.Hey Today I have added 'FA' with prod,its for a reason.Except the rotatable prod,remaining was simple and not grand bt the FA work on those simple prod was brilliant and quite natural.

Work on lights was very gud spcly its use at Kali mata Feet,In her eyes,behind dancers in 1st seq.The most important thing was that there was neglegible putch of light in scene changes(its often the case with PAF).

A very entertaining PAF,within time-limit,well-executed,well-appreciated by Junta,with some problems in framing of story and characters,causing some worry on the forehead of remaining two teams.

Comments are invited.)