Bandook is a film related to crime. The film has Aditya Om, Manisha Kelkar, Arshad Khan
and Ashish Kotwal playing important
roles. Music Director is Nikhil Kamath.
Lyricists are Shiv Sagar and Aditya Om. Editor is Nilesh Gavand and cinematography are by
P. Amar Kumar, Siddharth Kay and Devashish Sarkaar. Hitesh Modak is in
charge of sound.
Actress Manisha
Kelkar, who is the part of the movie Bandook, plays a village girl Kajri and credits director Aditya Om for teaching her the nuances
of her character. It was very different since she had to learn a lot, how she
would sit, stand and all, how would she behaved. Her director Aditya Om taught her everything.
Union Minister Kapil
Sibal is all set to make his Bollywood debut as a lyricist for the movie Bandook.
The film is the directorial debut of Telugu actor Aditya Om who met Sibal
at an event and requested the Minister if he could pen a song or two for his
movie based on the gun culture. They were both attending a musical programme in
Mumbai when someone introduced him to Sibal.
He got to know Sibal was a poet and
asked if he could pen a few songs for them. Sibal wanted to know something about the film and so Om sent him links of the publicity
material, including the last-recorded song by Jagjit Singh and another song by Rekha Bhardwaj.
Interestingly, Sibal
has also written a song on two young lovers being separated forever without
ever having expressed their love to each other. While he was penning the lyrics
of this beautiful number, Sibal was
also juggling the telecom and HRD ministry. Now that’s called multi-tasking and
Sibal is pro at it.
Aditya Singh, also referred to as Aditya Om, is an actor in Telugu
language films. Hindi film Bandook is produced and directed by Aditya himself. Bandook is based on a true
story. Bandook has Late Jagjit
Singh's last song sung for a film. It’s a movie on Uttar Pradesh politics. Bandook
is highly acclaimed by print media.
Bandook is the story of nexus between crime and politics
and how gun has become an umbilical chord between the two. It traces the
journey of Bhola from an ordinary
boatman's family to the corridors of power, how he realizes that the ability to
pull a trigger is his climbing ladder to respect, acceptability and the
ultimate lure..power.
The story moves from ordinary village struggles, to
inter gang strifes and finally the altar of elected power, the ultimate
purifier. The rustic backdrop of the gangetic plain serves as an ideal foil to
the story almost becoming a character. We see Bhola's love, friendships all tested in a ruthless world of deceit and
violence. The film does not glorify or condemn anything but strives to remain
an unbiased observer.
Aditya even tracked his wife, a
former nautch girl. And to his shock, she was the head of an underworld gang.
She was harbouring political ambitions. He weaved a fictional plot around it
and thus Bandook was born. It is a hardcore commercial venture on the
lines of Bandit Queen or Omkara dealing with crime and
politics. It was a thrilling experience making this film.
Director Aditya
Om's Bandook has an interesting mix of singers in his debut venture.
Late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh
recorded his last song for them.
The words of the song that Jagjit sang are in shudh Hindi which he said was very rare
nowadays. National Award winner Rekha
Bharadwaj has rendered an election song. Bandook also marks the
comeback of Pakistani singer Altaf Raja
who sang for a film in 2010. It's a qawwali of a different kind.
The film needed a blend of rustic and realistic
music. Om
toured rural interiors and researched folk forms like kajri, thumri, chaiti and
poorvi qawwali. Music director Nikhil
Kamath reworked on them to widen its appeal while retaining its original
flavour. Besides direction, creating the right music was the biggest challenge Om faced and he is happy that the songs
have a universal appeal.
Producer-director Aditya Om and his team worked on the script for more than two
years, involving research on political dons. What came out of research were
unknown facts and startling truths. The first myth which was broken was the
ease with which criminals are portrayed executing or killing people. A bahubali
challenged him to kill a chicken, and then went to tell him that it was not
easy to kill even small animals, leave alone human beings. Om learned that most of
the times it was an extreme step taken as a last resort and that the killers
intoxicate themselves before executing a hit. After the killing it takes them
four to five hours to return to normalcy. One sharpshooter confessed to
shivering of thighs even after years of experience.
Since Bandook was a non-starcast film,
finding the funds was tough but seeing the research and authenticity of the
script, total strangers and acquaintances came forward to help both in terms of
resources and funding. People were kind enough to give their premises,
including villages (Malunge in Maharashtra )
almost for free. Sometimes even the unit food was free.
A crowd gatherer in Uttar Pradesh who used to work
professionally for political parties worked free for them and taught them the
lessons in man-management and ground communications.
Thus Bandook is a thrilling film, which
tells the story of the hinterlands in UP where the gun has become the umbilical
chord between crime and politics. Manisha
plays Aditya's companion and has
changed her look for this film.
Thus Bandook is an interesting film. Do
watch it.
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