Ghaath (2000)

So many of my favourites together!!! Tabu garu, you never fail to amaze. Manoj Bajpayee, you absolute beauty. Irrfan Khan, sigh. I guess it'll be sometime before I can watch a movie of his, and not feel as if my chest has been hollowed out.

This was a typical masala flick- an idealistic middle class youth up against the big, bad world, full of corrupt policemen and evil gangsters. It's a genre that, when executed well, has proven to be extremely cathartic for me, even though I do mostly end up fast-forwarding through the violent scenes. Oh, that reminds me: trigger warning for police brutality. 

Coming back to the movie, the one performance that stood out for me the most was Irrfan's. It's not as if other actors haven't tried to play the villain in a subtle way before, but when he does it, it's something else. Irrfan had (UGH) that rare ability to get inside the character's skin in such a way that you can't imagine anyone else doing that particular role. Same with Manoj Bajpayee, actually. You can put them in any movie, no matter how formulaic and clichéd, and they'll still elevate it with their incomparable acting. I must look up more movies where two two have acted together- it's kind of masochism at this point though, because after Karwaan and Ghaath, I know how I'm going to feel after an Irrfan movie, and yet, I can't stop myself.

In conclusion, watch it to celebrate three of the best actors of their generation, and marvel at the fact that way back in 2000, these three ended up creating art together. *sobs*

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