While the storm is rage on for PK, UGLY comes silently and
goes dramatically but not for those who have watched it. Kashyap created an epic
this time perhaps first epic of visual media in India. An epic on metro lives which
shows a complete chain of ugliness (darkest realities of our times). Story
unfolds itself step by step like onion peeling. We go through the movie, shot
by shot and enters into the zones of different layers of a big city like Mumbai
in a zig-zag motion.
The narrative starts from a simple middle class family scene
of a 10 year girl, Kali who is compelling her mother to ask his first father to
take her for a walk. Tejasiwini Kolhapure played the role of Kali’s mother who
is currently married to an IPS officer (Ronit Roy) after leaving his first
husband, a struggling actor. Kali got kidnapped by an unidentified man and after
that shot, the complete story runs through a search expedition to find her back.
During this voyage we find many characters revealing their true colors, including
her mother and father, the search goes on with confusion, tension and we get
entrapped by noise of the roads, lies of lives and mistrust among relations.
Noise factor is again most powerful character of this movie
like any other movie of the Anurag Kashyap.
Noise which is running like blood in modern lives, it’s grip is
widespread from roads to homes and from relations to personal lives. In the end
of the story Noise stops but it comes into our heart like a slap when we see
the shot of Kali’s distorted body, right from that place from where she got
kidnapped.
This movie reminds you ‘Shaitan’ movie but UGLY’s edgy
sharpness, honest plot and dare to directly take on our system and society
together will surely keep you mum. ‘Shaitan’ was also produced by Anurag
Kashyap and directed by Vijay Nambiar. So the ‘shadow’ is here but Kashyap
caught the Camera for a deeper digging of the subject with a simplistic
storyline. He take their audience in the darkest and innocent parts of Mumbai
alike via frame by frame and we feel the insensitive hell of a metro city
beaming in our nerves and we are helpless to avoid it. The intensity of
narrative cuts you like a cold knife and sometimes you feel like directly
stabbed on your heart or got a heavy punch on your face.
Mubai ‘s colorless suburbs are the location for the shoot and
of course this is a spectacular feature of Kashayap’s movies. A noisy editing
of shots showed the unexplored, raw locations like middle class localities and
slums, lifeless dens of a metro city. Plot is based in Mumbai but it could be
establish in any metro city of the world. Story embeds the all sections of
society like upper class, middle class and lower class in the form of
characters.
We got stuck in the illusion of myth where reality and
confusion are boiling in the same bowl, just straight from our eyes but still
seem like virtual world. We run through the corridors of confusions, mistrust,
greed and anger and at last find the Kali, like a next door girl with a
distorted face and lifeless body.
At the
end, we feel distressed, bound to feel cold feet and blocked brains. UGLY reminded me the popular lines of Nida Fazli “ Har Aadmi
mein hote hain Das bees Aadmi/ Jisko bhi dekhna ho kai baar dekhna”. Kashyap
got success to create these lines visually and make us feel terrible realities.
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