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13 Years of A Wednesday: Subverting heroism and terrorism
Updated On: 05 September, 2021 07:57 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Neeraj Pandey’s drama about a common man’s plight and pain projected heroism and terrorism few other films in the same genre did, it was restrained yet rousing
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A still from `A Wednesday`, Picture Courtesy: Mid-day Archives
An adamant filmmaker may be deemed arrogant, but the adage has all the right to stand true how a director is the captain of the ship, even though the eccentric and entertaining Ram Gopal Varma says an actor is the owner of that ship. Neeraj Pandey, for his maiden material, aspired for Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, two of the finest of our country. One was astounded by the firm demeanour, the other by the flawless writing.
Pandey cheats the audience into believing Shah, an unnamed, common man is the terrorist as he mysteriously slips his bag beneath the basin of a police station’s washroom. What follows next is a thriller that unfolds across Mumbai with Shah controlling the pulses of the police and the people. He’s merely one call away and the city could be in shambles. He wants to free four terrorists and he’s supposedly the fifth member.
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