Review of Makdee

Spinning the Web

It is an art to lay out web, mastered not just by technicians of Spiderman movies or our eminent designers. The technique used is studied and marvelled by Vishal Bharadwaj, now a director then a music director. Debuting by film based on , he set to showcase his talents and succeeded in doing so. The movie was broadcasting on Zee Tv. this week prompting me to analyse the finely laid out mesh.
The movie is set in village filled with ignorant and backward villagers and infested with twins silent Munni and mischievous Chunni. Also, in a village is a mansion infested by a magical witch Makdi (Shabana Azmi), who according to uneducated villagers turns anyone who dares enter in her house an animal. Chunni known in whole village for notorious pranks along with her partner in crime, Gollu, adopted son of village’s poultry owner and butcher. A sulky mean that he was always loved to bully children, and once as revenge to a prank in a mistaken identity drives Munni into witch’s habit. Chunni of repentance enters the devil’s world to encounter witch and her sister turned into chicken. Pleads and woes of Chunni soften a witch and agrees to return her sister back, if she gives 100 chickens at rate of one per night to her. Scared Chunni agrees to the and starts stealing chickens off the owner. Guilt and fright overburden her with duty of playing her sister’s role, too. Life becomes a living torment with the secret she cannot digest nor can she reveal. Suddenly, a day the poultry owner played immensely well by Maakrand Deshpande realises the missing chicken and makes Golu admit the real culprit. Enraged he runs after the chicken owned by Chunni to butcher it. Terrified that her sister is going to get butchered she runs and all land in castle, only to discover the real truth. The witch is cons who along with two police constables have laid out the ploy to trap all who enter castle and make them dig for treasure lying deep in grounds of the home. The trap doesn’t hold Chunni anymore and by her brave efforts and courage breaks the web and emerges as heroine having caught the culprits.
Relatively simple children story adapted in fabulous screenplay is all what Makdee is about. Vishal Bharadwaj has marked a deep debut and shown that he is one of extra ordinary talented film makers of country. Excellent set with good camera angles add good great cinematography and spiced it with good direction is seen in the film. Shweta Prasad has not only stunned audience by her textbook portrayal of twins and has received critical and popular accolades and loads of award trophies for her table. Shabana has just made another seamless performance and can be easily mistaken as witch by her make up artist and facial expressions. Stage or films, Maakrand just know what it takes to be best and he has done the same. The film is good entertained for all ages and definitely not at all worth missing.
Just get entangled in this Makdee’s web

Rating ***
Rating Chart

* Bhool Hi jaaon
** Theek Hai Chalalenge
*** Accha Hain Achha Hain
**** Kya Baat HainJhakkaas
***** Dimaag aur Dil Hila De
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