Movie Preview: The Last Lear

Movie Preview: The Last Lear

Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Producer: Arindam Chaudhuri
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta
Cinematography: Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Editor:Arghya Kamal Mitra
Distributor: Planman Motion Pictures
Release date(s): September 9, 2007 (Toronto Film Festival), 12 September 2008 in India
Written by: Rituparno Ghosh, Utpal Dutt

The film “The Last Lear” was initially made in English and the film has been dubbed in Hindi to be released in India. The film will show Hindi movie actor Amitabh Bachchan doing character like Shakespearean characters, a very rare phenomena found in Hindi cinema but the concept has been tried and re-tried in Hollywood and it brought fame to Hollywood actors like Al Pacino, Sir Peter O Toole and Joseph Fiennes.

The film story is about Harry a 65 year old, eccentric, passionate, a kind of Shakespeare stage actor and he is a great fan of “The Master”. The actor once meets a movie director Siddhartha, a new man belonging to coming generation and he has a vision to see the unknown. He can do anything to meet his wishes. Both Siddhartha and Harry are very different from other and when they meet they get along very soon.

Siddhartha offers Harry with a role in his upcoming film and after initial reluctance Harry accepts to do the tough role of his life. Being new to acting in cinemas Harry initially finds that he is learning new things and doing things different from what he has been doing. He meets an actress Shabnam who is having a tough personal life and he helps her out of the professional problems and the personal problems of her life.

The shootings take place amidst mountains and beautiful landscapes and Harry couldn’t realize that by the time passes he has just turned into the director’s joker, he did everything he was told and with the crew member enjoying the new life, Harry forgets his own life. After the last shot something happens at the sunset, Harry’s memory fades and he couldn’t remember anything accept the words of “The Master.”