The Last Lear

The Last Lear is a very intelligently and well-made movie. Shakespearean dialogs and references are used cleverly. Amitabh Bachchan is mesmerizing. Once again, he defeats his toughest competition--himself. He improves noticeably with each and every film. As his character demands, Amitabh... Full review

The theme is superb. Acting by AB is superb, but we are used to that. The total effect is okay; the end is weak; the flow is intermittently disturbed because of bad time-sequencing. I would have added scenes/snippets from the stage... Full review

Once in a while, a movie comes along which revolutionizes the way people think about cinema. Although this movie does not reach that level, the fact that it may be a trendsetter for Indian cinema is commendable. I have been a... Full review

Big names deserved appreciation but not a Rituparno standard. Screenplay looks distracted, some characters seems unnecessary to be present along wth their stories. What is the relation of the Nurse's story to the central theme of the movie? Why it has... Full review

I didn't like this movie. AB is good for nothing. This old man must stop pretending he is GOD FATHER. I hated this stupid movie. I left in the middle. WORST ENGLISH FILM...WITH REAL HINDI ACCENT.... "OOO GO NA"....."PLEASE LEAVE ME... Full review

A simlply superb movie with over the top performances of all the main characters. Beautifully scripted and directed. A great movie that made you laugh, feel passion for something you love and emote with the characters as they played their parts.... Full review

Hail Indian Cinema and its talents, Hail the contemporary age of film making but also Hail the old school concepts and Hail Amitabh! Over the last period or so, quite very often nowadays, I have begun taking notice of the fact... Full review

Just over a year ago, I had heard about this movie and that it was being released. But then nothing happened. Then finally it has been released and it was worth it. Ritupatrna Ghosh has done what no other director has... Full review

This is a movie like raincoat, where there are a few people dicussing the past. I didn't like raincoat so i didn't like the last lear. You expect alot more then this from a group of A-class actors, well i dont think it was the actors fault, it was the story they chose to act in. The plot is a poor show, there are many questions that are not answered and the film does have alot of holes in it. The first half proves to be a slow start into the movie and this first half will probably put off half the viewers, the second half gets a bit alright but still wouldn't excite anybody.The film is more of a hollywood movie, it is spoke full in english and slight words of hindi (i think). It is about harish (amitabh), an old man that used to be a stage actor in his youth. He was about to get the biggest role in his life, his aim, of performing king lear. Harish leant the script by heart, he interpreted the character, he researched everything about it, a devout actor to his role. But a few days before the first play a couple of people had made allegations about him and his wife, his wife had an abortion and insult had caused harish to drop his role and his dream. At present he is a retired old man, he has some sort of brain damage, needs 24hr care and wat has lead to this condiion? A couple of months bck some directors (arjun) wanted to put him in his movie, eventually harish had agreed, he is the co-star and preity as the heroin. The shooting was going well untill the climax, it needed a dangerous stunt, arjun had hired a stuntman to do harish's climax. But harish took this as an insult and pleaded that he do the stunt himself, arjun gave into his plea. Harish had one take on the climax, but in the shot you could see him grabbing the branches, ruining the climax. So another take had to happen, the scene ends and this take leaves a ??? to the film. How harish came to his condition, no one will know. Harish has supposedly got memory loss so at the end why is he reciting lines from a play? A very wierd film to be hones.

i m not much of a movie buff. i went to see the movie alone without much expectation. but i was totally enthralled by the whole movie...the story line up, direction, picturisation and the acting. i would certainly give full marks... Full review

In her debut Bengali film Bipasha shines as Prosenjit's wife.....yet managed to glorify the most trivial moments of life in his poems..... ... Full Review

Rampal, restrained and implosive, is excellent.....Street watching is very Satyajit Rayesque (please see Charulata) and it's done with quirky humour here.....When the intense, realistic-type director (Arjun Rampal) cajoles him to return from three decades of retirement, you marvel at the actor's brilliant, theatrical rendition.....So friends, countrymen and Shakespeare, to be honest Bachchan's shout into a valley is on the embarrassing side though (check out Liza Minnelli's yell fest in Cabaret)..... ... Full Review

transform a landmark theatrical experience into flawed cinema..... ... Full Review

And it is due to his stupendous performance....Arjun Rampal as the off beat director comes off well.... ... Full Review

All in all The Last Lear is a good watch for all those who love Shakespeare. The Last Lear also perfectly depicts the guilt of journalist Gautam (Jishu Sengupta) who blames himself for Harry's current condition because it is him who tells his friend Siddharth about Harry. ... Full Review

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