In midst of this week’s more than a couple of bogus Bollywood A-listers,
there is a small film [in budget for sure] titled as ‘STATION’ getting
unnoticed by most of us. So, when I reached at the box-office at the nearest PVR multiplex in Delhi-NCR, least I had expected to hear that the show got
cancelled as it’s just me who had shown some guts to go for it. Anyways; thanks
to the collective love for cinema, the guys at the box-office decided to run it
despite me being the only one in the auditorium. And now that I have seen it, I
would like to proclaim that this small one is bigger than the rest 3 new
releases from Bollywood this week.
Saad Khan’s STATION is the first Bollywood film that comes from Bangalore.
A crime-thriller in its genre; it smells fresh, clean, crisp, mature, confident
and quite a fine piece of film-making for so many newcomers involved in it. Though
unlike most of indie filmmakers, it doesn’t prefer to be smarter than the
smartest to grab attentions from left, right and centre of the industry and opts
for a safe and sound route to tell a ‘perfect for Bollywood’ tale of plotting,
betrayals, dark secrets, murders in the power hungry immoral world of crime.
Introduced by the badman of Bollywood Gulshan Grover, STATION puts you
in the colonnade of a crime syndicate run by a formally dressed, soft-spoken King
in frameless pair of glasses. The associates too are symbolically introduced as
the facets in any playing-card pack. There is a loyal Queen, a hardcore Madhuri
Dixit fan but murderous Joker who loves to joke even in a heated scenario, a cool-headed
Jack with balanced mind as the right hand to the king and a game-changer Ace
who talks to his dead girlfriend in his state of hallucination after getting
drugged. The game on the board turns upside down when the King gets killed. And
now the Queen has taken the charge to solve the mystery and punish the responsible!
The plan must be executed by the rest three and then starts the mind games that
doesn’t make you breathe in regular motion till you come to see the clearer
picture of why, how and who.
Film’s biggest strength is undoubtedly the background score. Music by Jeet
Singh celebrates the western elements in singing and in the composition to give
it a young contemporary urban touch. The narrative pattern scatters the plot
and the events at first and then tries to solve the puzzle by putting pieces
together. Sharp, crisp and confident editing! Cinematography is absolutely appropriate
for the genre. Performers are mostly newcomers and it looks. Though they act
raw, conscious and amateurish sometimes, it is not much difficult to ignore as
Saad sure knows his craft well to tell a story as it should be.
STATION is not some extraordinary thriller but it is not just any
ordinary thriller too. It is a Bollywood film that doesn’t actually come from
Bollywood. It deserves
a watch for the freshness it brings to the Bollywood crime-thrillers! [3/5]
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