Movie! 154: Metro... In Dino.
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Hi! I’m back in The Quint this weekend, reviewing Anurag Basu’s latest, Metro… In Dino. Read on for an excerpt, and a link to the full piece.
Metro… In Dino Finds Meaning in the Mess of Modern Life.
Anurag Basu’s latest, Metro… In Dino, is very much of a piece with his previous work. With each successive movie, particularly since 2007’s Life in a… Metro (which is this film’s spiritual predecessor), Basu has grown more confident in his idiosyncrasies, more expressive of his tastes, and less concerned with whether we can keep up with him. Many elements from his past work recur joyfully here: the hyperlink cinema format, with multiple intersecting storylines; the overflowing, melodious music; the live band (Pritam, Papon and Raghav Chaitanya); the character named Shruti (here played by Fatima Sana Shaikh); the colour-pop cinematography (courtesy Basu himself and Abhishek Basu); the pouring rain.
In other words, if the teeming cast of Ludo confused you, or if the unnamed passionate musicians of Life in a… Metro bored you, or if the sung dialogue of (the criminally underrated) Jagga Jasoos irritated you – then Metro… In Dino is not for you. But for the rest of us, it’s another chance to watch the new manic musical madness Basu’s brain has dreamt up.
Read the rest of the review here.