Everyone wants a happy ending
Everyone wants a happy ending
ByTrisha GuptaTrisha Gupta / Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 06:01 IST
A still from Anurag Basu’s Ludo
Ludo tries hard to present the world as breezily anarchic, but it’s hard to sustain while going on about good and evil
Anurag Basu likes to cultivate the idea of chaos, creating a tangle of threads so he can have the aesthetic pleasure of disentangling them. His latest film Ludo, which launched on a streaming platform earlier this year, takes that aesthetic conceit to its acme. A film with four different tracks needs a structuring motif, and Basu s choice is the popular board game with a board and counters organised into four primary colours. At first it seems that the only uniting factor among these disparate narratives is an unkillable don called Sattu Bhaiyya (Pankaj Tripathi), from whose gun – and whose den – all stories flow.