Ishqiya . Review on Ishqiya

What is the fun in being ruthlessly grave when all you have got to show is a bunch of runaway thugs fleeing with a booty . Right?. After mind churning movies like maqbool, omkara and kaminey vishal bhardwaj comes up with a light, intriguing plot spiced up with some entertaining wit. Ishqia is a beautiful metaphor for some one manoeuvred by love, sort of “ishq mein nikamma” who got off his plans to brave all chaos, trouble and despair all for his beloved.

Two such crooks babban(arshad) and his khallujann(naseer) are running from mushtaq a bigger crook(salman shahid) with the booty all the way from bhopal to napal and land up in gorakhpur.They take refuge at krishna ‘ s place widow of vidhya dhar verma, a dreaded criminal. All she wanted while he was alive was to surrender but all he understood was a cylinder. While they came to stay for a while, khallu charmed by krishna’s voice and poise saw in her retreat of his life. Trouble pours in as mushtaq finds the duo and demands his money. But there isn’t any. Things only get worse and the two are entangled deep in krishna’s plans.

Ishquia is a compelling and hilarious depiction of simple befooling emotion called love that is beyond all sanity and bewilderment. The movie is rustically delectable in the first half with the bhopali accented babban and bhojpuri accented nandu, krishna’s shabby mud house, her yellow vermilion, up 53 vehicles and gorakhpur ‘s description . The next half puts the story on course with startling revelations of krishna’s past and plans.

The performances are amazingly cool. Warsi as babban the lower thug, the aid, carefree philanderer with the wackiest one liners and naseer as an aged, the sophisticated one is de light to watch. It seems there is a lot more than sartorial slips to vidya who has finally found her ground. She is splendid as a shrewd, seething baiting the two for her revenge.

Music like other vb films is bucolic and minimal matching the feel of the movie. Dialogues are crude and full of obscenities, have received a lot of flak but for a story like this does anyone expect bard’s refrains.

Abhishek chaubey the debutante director manages well cheeky plot of love & revenge without getting broody. Under the façade of humour, he also tries to flip on issues of caste fanned hatred, kidnapping and smuggling across the border rampant in eastern up and bihar. Ironically a 15 year old describing his ease with a “ katta” as to able to use it before learning to wash off is not farther from truth in these places. No wonder these cities are rotting on the land of law! .(that frustrates me to no end).nonetheless he stays put on the story and pulls off quirky, amusing and intense tale in style. I am struggling for words now, but for ishquia I cant think of anything more apt than this “to be wise and love, exceeds man's might” - william shakespeare. So watch it for all the commotion, lunacy and off course love

Enough endorsement now, I am not getting paid for it. Find out yourself.

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