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Tuesday 17 January 2012

Nepali movie LOOT Revealed

       In order to avoid the feeling of embarrassment, I had stopped watching Nepali films a longtime ago. But I am glad that I broke my hibernation with “LOOT”. The film has all the usual flaws you’d expect from a Nepali movie, but what sets LOOT apart from other films is that the flaws are not everywhere and certainly not glaring to the point of embarrassment. It does not have a senseless plot whose purposelessness is compounded by jumbled sequences, unjustified scenes, poor direction, sloppy acting and, to top it all, careless editing that give Nepali films a bad name. Though not entirely new, LOOT has a well-defined plot. With the promise of quick bucks and an end to all the problems of their lives, four youths Naresh (Karma), Khatri (Prateek Raj Neupane), Pandey (Sushil Raj Pandey), Gopal (Daya Hang Rai) are led into robbing a bank by Haku Kale (Saugat Malla). The movie is all about how Haku Kale goes on to identify the right kind of people--for whom money is everything—and convinces them to be part of his “master plan of robbing a bank,” as he puts it in a hoarse voice and with the Newari twang of his character, stressing on the ‘T’ of the word master. With due respect to the director and all other actors, I don’t even want to think how the movie would be like without Saugat Malla. As a ringleader of frustrated-youths-turned-robbers he does a marvelous job.

 Every time you see him on the screen you expect something interesting to happen and he never disappoints. Saugat takes it all in his head, and shoulders the responsibility to put the plot together and give the pace, intensity and thrill that forms the undercurrent of any crime movie. In all the scenes that do not feature Saugat, the pace of the movie goes slack and the plot loses its intensity. Except for Malla and Reecha Sharma, all other actors fail to exploit a situation to its full dramatic potential. None of the other actors are able to project the madness and bottled-up frustration of desperate youths who are willing to rob a bank. While Khatri and Pandey struggle, and fail, to establish themselves in the plot and connect with the audience, Karma is a bit disappointing, given his actual potential, as he seems mostly distracted and often uninterested. Unlike Khatri and Pandey, whose acting is marred by weak dialogue delivery and bad timing, Karma, despite being good at the technicalities of acting, does a passable job when he should have been another pace setter of the movie apart from Saugat Malla. Even though she has only a few minutes of screen presence as a background to Pandey’s story, Richa Sharma manages to leave an impression. But Pandey fails to match up to Sharma’s acting skills and the contrast is apparent in all the scenes in which they are cast together.

  Nischal Basent, the director, has done a good job. His only failing is the lack of attention to details and, perhaps, moving ahead with compromise scenes here and there. For example, the scenes of Saugat going out in his sorties scouting for accomplices could have been made much more interesting and the scene of robbery more thrilling. Some scenes seem to drag on for no reason, while others that deserved detail renderings have been wrapped up cursorily. A much tighter, neater and detailed screenplay would have let very little room for criticism. Screening at QFX Cinemas.

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