Film Review ‘Sherdil’: Pankaj Tripathi’s first acting mistake is ‘Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga’

Film Review ‘Sherdil’: Mimicry is a wonderful method. Copying the voice and gestures of any person and doing something in such a way that the beholder understands it to be real. When there is mimicry of the actors of the film, the audience enjoys a lot but it also has a sad aspect. When an artist starts mimicking an actor, then understand that he has been typecast and now the audience sees less innovation in his acting. Such an actor should immediately analyze his work and avoid doing the same kind of role in future. Seeing the release of Sherdil – The Pilibhit Saga on Netflix, I feel like giving this opinion to Pankaj Tripathi.

For the last one year, many stand-up artists have started doing very successful mimicry of Pankaj Tripathi. His acting in Sherdil seems so worn out that if he were to pick up this role and put it in another film, it might not make much difference. This thing about Pankaj Tripathi is important because Pankaj is a thorny desi man and in his acting the noise of the crossroads, the clamor of the street and the gossip of the hotel are visible. Repetitive appearance of such an amazing artist is the first sign of danger for his career. Lion-hearted, only lion-hearted people can bear.

The villages adjacent to the forest often face problems. Wild animals destroy their crops, predatory animals make their domesticated animals their food. The fate of these villagers is such that even their existence is questionable. Due to the indifference and indifference of the government staff, the villages do not get any kind of help and what they can get, there are so many mountains of law and order and paperwork that these illiterate barbarians leave it considering it as a punishment from God. . In 2017, a similar incident had come to the fore in Pilibhit where due to extreme poverty and hunger, the villagers left their elders at home and migrated to the city.

The intention was that if wild animals like lions would eat these elders, huge money would be collected from the government as compensation because this money could not be received from any rural upliftment scheme. Director Srijit Mukherjee along with Sudeep Nigam and Atul Kumar Rai has written this film based on these incidents. The story itself is unique and heart wrenching. As a society, we see the usefulness of our elders only as compensation for their death, this is shameful, horrifying and a blot on our humanity. But it is also true.

We need to see these events closely to believe in the story. Pankaj Tripathi’s innocent, situational sarcasm does not reach the seriousness of this fact to hard hearts like ours. Today’s OTT viewer has such a thick skin that nothing less than acid can burn his sensitivity. The film does not make this acid, but comes out with a soft cover of sarcasm, due to which we do not understand the sorrow of this story. ‘Sherdil – The Pilibhit Saga’ is a ridiculous use of Pankaj and his kind of acting.

It is Pankaj’s specialty to take a silly idea and easily make it a favorite story of the audience, but in this film Pankaj has been fooled. A simple person is not a fool. When Pankaj goes to the jungle for the first time to become a lion’s prey, the whole episode and scene are boring and seem fake. The foolishness of making Neeraj Kabi a desi version of Jim Corbett is also beyond comprehension. Amidst all this, Pankaj’s fake Hindi kills the desire to know in which village of Pilibhit it is spoken. Here the intention is to exploit Pankaj, not to make proper use of his acting.

The basis of the truth behind the making of the film is bitter, but what has been prepared and served on it is not known as to what taste it should be understood. There is neither proper sarcasm or sarcasm, nor the tragedy of the jungle, nor the sacrifice of a person dying of cancer, nor any comment on the impractical policies of the government. It is also wrong to draw the entire film on Pankaj alone. Shreejith’s film Shabaash Mithu is better than this, whereas in that film too there was almost nothing in the name of drama. Sreejit’s Bengali films have been very successful and Hindi films are only in limelight. To show a new type of story, one has to walk holding a mood.

The fickle story like the stream of the river often fails to establish any relation with the audience. The first 20-25 minutes of Shergil move at such a cumbersome and slow pace that the audience gets bored. Why do directors forget that now viewers are free to watch something else on OTT. Cinematographer Tiyash Sen is searching for his ground. The film has been shot while establishing an identity between the beauty of the forest and the sorrow of the situation. Pranay Dasgupta’s problem also stems from this. In the confusion of what to keep and what to cut, editing also does not give any shape to the film. Shantanu Moitra’s music is a good aspect but songs will not be successful and popular. The last recorded song “Dhoop Pani Behne De” from the life of famous singer KK who passed away recently is in this film.

The film Sherdil is only for those people who are Sherdil. There is nothing in this film for those looking for a fun entertainer. Pankaj Tripathi should watch Sherdil himself to get rid of his familiar style. All the people who are fans of Pankaj, they themselves will think again after watching this film. If you don’t watch, nothing will happen.

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