Review of Newton . . .
Amit Masurkar brings a gem to the hindi film industry. Yes, the title itself made me curious when i heard about it. It went in film festivals and earned so much critical acclaim as well as did so well on box office.
Story of a government officer Nutan Kumar (Rajkumar Rao) who changed his name to Newton. who iz appointed at voting booth in the jungle area of Chhatisgarh where Adivasi live and Naxals rule over there and there was the only one way to solve the problem between Government and Naxals and that was the election. Votes by the citizens of that area.
Newton iz very honest man and work oriented person. These days we can never find this kind of person in any government department. His ethics, his dedication towards work, his honesty etc worth to make his character extraordinary.
Film gears up with talks between Newton and Sanjai Mishra. Sanjai sir explains to Newton that Issac Newton didn't only invent gravity but he taught to the world that Nature does no partiality. It's same with all people and existence.
Followed by first meeting of Newton with Pankaj Tripathi who plays head of the force. His conversation before they left towards the jungle where voting point was decided. Raghuvir Yadav's humorous dialogues, very well showed some realities of Indian election system. No one comes to give vote but when media comes the authority brings people forcefully from their home to cast vote.
When Newton comes to know about people who don't know anything about voting and election system then he talks with the people and tells you choose someone among these candidates and he will represent you to the central government that will be your president (Pramukh,Patel). One old aged man stands up from public and says he iz going to represent them as he was Patel of that area and community. That was the most funniest scene of the film as well as hard reality of the society. Many humorous scenes have something hard hitting reality.
Newton does his duty of voting on the gun point iz superbly executed scene.
The last minutes of climax iz also mind blowing. When Anjali Patil offers to have a tea while Newton was doing some work and says still 5 minutes then after duty we will have tea together iz awesome scene.
If every government officials at least can adapt 10% qualities from this Newton then it will be great for the nation but unfortunately that's not possible in reality. Honesty iz no more nowadays in any field.
Anyway not talking much about the nation but technically film iz a gem.
Undoubtedly it deserves awards for brave concept and people like me who are hungry for content cinema would love it.
Performance by Rajkumar Rao as Newton an appropriate choice. No one else could've played this much better than him. He iz versatile. His eye blinking to dialogues speaking everything he has done brilliantly. His role and himself both are heart winning. Kudos to him.
Raghuvir Yadav shares very good screenplay.
Pankaj Tripathi iz excellent. His comic timing and dialogue delivery superb.
Anjali Patil lends good support. Sanjai Mishra has guest role in the beginning only and he did very good job.
Overall one of the finest films came out this year and film like this must needed for the bollywood and also for the society.
Direction, concept, dialogues and mainly performances all the things worked so well to create a masterpiece.
For honesty of Newton
I will go with
4.5/5.
--- by Harsh Desai . . .
