notes in black

Caught the Sarkar preview on nowrunning.com. Slick. What you've come to expect from RGV. Caught the cast list elsewhere, and apart from the possibilities of the two Bs fighting it out (or will they?), there's Kay Kay Menon again, and two returns of familiar faces: Supriya Pathak, and Rukhsar (famous for playing doomed characters in Yaad Rakhegi Duniya -- an unsung adaptation of Mani Ratnam's Geetanjali [does anyone remember TuuTii khi.Dakii maka.De kaa ja.ngalaa/ja.ngale ke piichhe bhuut ba.ngalaa?] -- and Inteha Pyar Ki). Nice touch on the colour invading the evil B&W frames.

And thus we segue to some more black soup. While his latest film Black Friday {elsewhere: my notes on the soundtrack} seems doomed just like Paanch, Anurag Kashyap did not hold back in his thoughts on Bhansali's widely hailed Black.