1 Line Review: Edge of the seat thriller.
Warning: The movie has abusive language. But relax, its nowhere close to Gangs of Wasseypur.
Well, before anything, you should know Ugly is a cinematic excellence. This is not the typical movie trying to win the 100 Crore race. For that matter, this will not even look like a movie. Yes, you will feel this is happening near your home. Yes, it will make you feel that real. Yes, the actors are so grounded to the character they will not appear actors. In fact, other than Ronit Roy you may not be able to recognise anyone. Actually, that’s good, you do not get to judge them from their part performances.
Plot: Kali, a 10 year old girl goes missing. That’s all I can tell you.
Talking about performances the movie has Ronit Roy (Police Chief and Step father of Kali) in an intense role. After Udaan, my expectations from him has sky rocketed and he still satisfies me, what a class actor! Others include Girish Kulkarni (Inspector Jhadav), Vineet Kumar (Chaitanya), Surveen Chawla (Rakhi) , Vipin Sharma, Rahul Bhat (Father of the Kali) and Tejaswini Kolhapure (mother of Kali).
As I said earlier you will not even feel like its a movie, everything is just so real, not made up, not stages, actual locations and just too factual. I am planning to watch it again to ensure all the calculations I did in my mind was actually correct and fit the puzzle. Everyone is so deep into the role that at no point in time I felt its a movie. The very first scene at the police station where Rahul and Chaitanya have come to file a report for the missing child will take your breath away. It’s just so real. No filmy dialogues, no extra drama, no zoom in zoom out camera tricks. Plain real scene and the dialogues (so close to real life).
You would also love the rawness of the entire movie, no extra frill, no main hero, no main heroine, no main villain and no flying people. Guess that seriously disqualifies Ugly from the 100 crore club. Am I glad to know that! One important fight sequence in the movie is just too real without any background score to add up drama. After all its Ronit Roy, he can handle every aspect of a serious scene. You will not look for anything else when he is in front of you.
Shalini (Kali’s mom) gives a super performance. Rahul (father of the girl) will make you think, he might have done it himself for the love of money. Rahul’s friend Chaitanya, he seemed a clear suspect who could do it, what a dialogue delivery. Another character Siddhanth, Shalini’s brother has his own agenda in life and he will also make you think he did it.
But who really did it?
Well, don’t ask me that. Go watch and find it out yourself. I made 3 predictions and changed them during the course of the movie. Let me know how did it go for you!!
Anurag Kashyap ji. Aap ko salaam.