Dobaaraa: Trippy time loop-lapeta

DobaaraaDirector Anurag KashyapCast Taapsee Pannu Pavail Gulati Rahul BhatRating Of course there is such a thing as an auteur however collective a medium the movies may bemdashthe director directs all the departments after all In that respect this is the least likely among what wersquove come to expect of an lsquoAnurag Kashyap filmrsquo By which we assume a film aiming for the darkest side of the moon Or at least packed with characters oscillating between disturbing extremes Or somehow or the other obsessed with somethingsomeoneOkay the latter bit holds true here too But I donrsquot know if itrsquos the fact that this is Kashyaprsquos first screen adaptation of an existing moviemdashOriol Paulorsquos Mirage 2018mdashthere isnrsquot an obvious political statement either Something he managed to brilliantly weave into his last release the surreal drama Choked 2020Unless the minor exchange between a character at a police station in this picture counts where the guy expresses his rights as a citizenmdashldquoI need a lawyerrdquomdashthe cop goes ldquoYou think yoursquore in Americardquo True thatDobaaraa is a timetravel genre flick tending towards even a romantic fantasy of sorts Itrsquos something that at least Irsquom unaware has ever been attempted in a Hindi film before More so itrsquos a film about existing in parallel universes while the world is one of course or is itExplain that again Meaning that people could exist in multiple timelinesmdasha nudge here in the present messing up the likely future altogether or the past for that mattermdashwhich I guess is the opposite of destiny wherein everything is assumed to be predecidedThere are The Terminator Dr Strange and Interstellar or at least a Nolan reference But most importantly how does this time looplapeta land on the lay audience In a way that itrsquos instantly accessible first Unlike a lotta geeky scifi time dimension stuff that unnecessary make you feel dumb for no reason at allmdashas if the audience owes the communicator the comprehension instead of the other way roundAnd this was my mild apprehension before walking into this movie knowing there are at least two occasions the short film in Ghost Stories and the feature No Smoking when Kashyap hasnrsquot conveyed his point convincingly enoughDespite the plot simultaneously switching between two time settingsmdashone in the present the other in the mid90smdashDobaaraa is a pretty straight and simple film with a trippy background score and even a proper Hindi soundtrackAt no point are you overawed by the hypothesis Which is that a camcorder exists in the past which can teleport you to sneak a peek into the futuremdashonly at a certain place and moment because of some kinda geomagnetic storm Dobaaraamdashas in twice over and the time 212 when the phenomenon occursmdashfor the filmrsquos title is a fine pun on this themeTaapsee Pannu plays a nurse in the present whorsquos unhappily married with a husband the ever dependable Rahul Bhat and a little child In the past is a young boy who dies when a truck runs him over Since we know this about this boyrsquos death in the future what if one prevents it from happening What does that doWell thatrsquos the basis of this telling Spanish piece smartly adapted in an IndianPune setting by screenwriter Nihit Bhave setting in motion a curious set of events between a compelling cast of characters in mainly constricted spacesFrankly we know everything about time travel only from fiction No proof of any such thing exists in life That said if I were to explain the idea of this film to myself literally in cosmetic terms it would be this Look at people who try botox fillers lipnosejobs and similar surgeries to fix their facesYou change one thing thatrsquos natural yoursquove gotta change something else The symmetry is disturbed The damn face looks weirder otherwise And then you fix some more and eventually everybody starts looking like Michael JacksonThatrsquos how time works here You canrsquot change one moment without getting into a loop of changing a full stack of events that were naturally meant to be no Basically like with your face donrsquot mess with time just sayingAnd what happens when you do You probably create parallel universes where everything exists but in different ways making you think for a second What if the life we are leading itself is a dream before death happensIf these random thoughts are going through your head the filmrsquos done its magic trick That it keeps you hooked all through was the most yoursquod expected from it anywayAlso Read Dobaaraa cast Taapsee Pannu and Pavail Gulati visit Kalighat Kali Temple in Kolkata

Dobaaraa: Trippy time loop-lapeta

Dobaaraa

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Rahul Bhat

Rating: ***

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Dobaaraa: Trippy time loop-lapeta

Dobaaraa

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Rahul Bhat

Rating: ***

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