March 14, 2021
The personal but mercurial style, which indicates expanse and ambition, is intelligent enough to invite us to experience the bitterness and joys of being alive
Reading the title of the film, one feels that Prateek Vats’s
Eeb Allay Ooo! couldn’t have found a better slogan for itself. This spectacle is the fruit of
avant-garde cinema – the same vision as the poets behind
Nagarik and
Vats is neither following in the vein of de Sica’s
Bicycle Thieves nor emulating the romantic, fantastical situations of
Pather Panchali. Instead, a slightly bizarre but mostly unassuming individual is put in situations where he is pitted against himself – he is looking for what interests him; he is struggling to get a job that he likes. The general tone is a conversation in metaphors on different issues in society, class and religious politics and the plight of migrant workers. But the starting point of this conversation is a monologue of the main character. The openi
Eeb Allay Ooo! Movie Review: Prateek Vats Becomes The Voice Of The Marginalised In The Gem Of A Satire That Runs High On Metaphors
There is a commentary about the haves, and the have nots, the class divide and the increasing gap between the two worlds.
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What’s Good: Every single thing. On the surface, what looks like a social comedy is a satire that will speak to you on the level you understand and empathise with the society/surrounding.
What’s Bad: Only if you have adapted yourself to the spoon-feeding cinema, Pratik Vats is serving food, not feeding you.