Yugpurush: A Man Who Comes Just Once in a Way

It was one of the forgotten movies by Partho Ghosh with his hit team of 'Agnisakshi", Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala and Jackie Shroff, which badly flopped at the box office. Perhaps the audience couldn't accept the sadistic story of the film that time. The film starts as a political drama, but it's more of the psychological study of damaged, dysfunctional people. But the character development and the script of the the film is very poorly done which make it very hard for you to relate with any of the characters. Only in the final few reels the film is able to grip you perhaps for the very slow pace the film has been given. Manisha as a foul mouthed mistress and her transformation doesn't hit the chord; nor Jackie Shroff's obsession for his love look spontaneous. Overall the story forms a very complex and psychological love triangle which doesn't seem to interest much of the audiences.

If the film is worth watching, it's only for Nana Patekar, whom you can relate to as a mentally challenged person. His arrival alters the lives of many people around him yet his innocence falls prey to the selfishness of many. Perhaps his talent hasn't been used to the fullest in the recent movies. "Yugpurush" remains one of his finest performances to date which got sadly unnoticed.

Rating: 2 stars out of 4