The Last Act (2012) - Movie Review
His fame indeed has the ability to lend his name to promote unconventional concepts in Indian film industry.
‘The Last Act’ tells a story of a misdeed by a psychopath that leaves 12 signs around the dead body. The signs draw down to 12 different cities including Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi. The movie has a sequence of 12 short films that show how the police solve out the murder mystery pursuing the 12 clues found around the body.
‘The Last Act’ is a concept of having multiple directors which is likely taken from the international venture ‘The Owner’ that was directed by 25 directors. Likewise ‘The Last Act’ is a mixture of 12 small stories directed separately by 12 different directors; however each story is connected to another by mean of a murder mystery.
Anurag Kashyap has worked out on the basic design and involves Asmit Pathare too who is one of the 12 directors of ‘The Last Act’. Asmit Pathare was also one of the 25 filmmakers of ‘The Owner’. He forms the first and the last part of the movie. He has brilliantly revealed the way cops investigate across the cities.
While, Anurag has specially selected the 11 filmmakers from the 500 entries, but every one of them does not give you an outstanding result. Asmit Pathare, Tejas Joshi and Nijo-Rohit are praiseworthy for their direction and excellent output. Whereas direction of Jagannathan Krishnan for Pune part and Kabir Chowdhry for Chandigarh is actually nonfigurative that makes the audience really stressed to understand the situation.
‘The Last Act’ is good at acting front too. The cast including Saurabh Shukla, Shreyas Pandit and many more have given their 100% and know their jobs. The movie has fast paced editing which cause stress on audience brains while combing all part together, hence it leaves you pondered with some unanswered questions.
On the whole, ‘The Last Act’ is an only one of its kind film which has a praiseworthy concept of multiple directors pursuing a common thread of a murder mystery.
