You know I have always believed that films which are for everybody are for nobody in particular, that being said Anurag Kashyap's Ugly isn't for everybody unlike PK or other big releases. Ugly is filled with dark, complicated, insecure characters wherein everybody is either a flawed husband/ wife/ parent/ friend/ lover this makes the characters instantly relatable even though there is some exaggeration in the film. The story starts with the kidnapping of a little girl which sets into motion a chain of events where her new step father and her biological father engage in a game of upmanship and try to be the "hero" as the movie likes to put it by finding their daughter but they care more about satisfaction of their egos and their history dating back to college than about the girl herself. In between the movie throws in a suicidal wife who has been loved by both the men, an item girl whose claim to fame is a song called mujhko nichodley jhinnjhodley, technologically challenged cops, some really dark but really funny scenes and this film is already brimming with top notch quality. The direction is excellent and the sets are claustrophobic and uncomfortable in tune with the film and all the actors deliver.
My only gripe with the film is that it fails to be a decent kidnapping story, it's so focused on character development that the kidnapping events at points seem illogical and improbable and the Alfred Hitchcock fan in me can't forgive that though the Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritichie fan in me doesn't mind.
My only gripe with the film is that it fails to be a decent kidnapping story, it's so focused on character development that the kidnapping events at points seem illogical and improbable and the Alfred Hitchcock fan in me can't forgive that though the Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritichie fan in me doesn't mind.