Now, don't get me wrong. MSFU is a good movie. It has good production values, a taut story line, good performances - all in all, a well made film. I would give it 9/10 on any scale of movie-making. But, after enduring all those twists and turns for two hours in the dark hall, you walk out feeling....hmm....ho....so, so...
I felt really let down by the ending. Such a dark and macabre film deserved a more shocking ending, not the benign and preachy "sabka katega" ending that it has. The moralising about how the smaller fish sometimes escapes because it's small enough, or the bigger fish gets gobbled up by an even bigger fish, didn't go down well with me. A nice end would've been the bad guy getting away with everything and our man the novelist-detective leaving the city in disgust, or, the novelist guy decides its time to buy land and co-opts with the baddy. Worst case, if you had to show the baddy being punished, then our detective friend should've used his novelist dimaak to come up with a hideous counter plan to entrap maharajah saab and bury him in the rubble of his misdeeds.
Watch Johnny Gaddar to get a drift of what I'm saying. In the end, the scheming protagonist meets his end, but, it is done in style. There's no preachy sermon about good versus evil. Instead, our alec smart gets out smarted one last time...
My recommendation: Both movies are a good watch....ideal weekend DVD flicks...will keep you hooked....welcome to nouveau noir bollywood style..
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