Daddy': Arjun Rampal gives Arun Gawli new life (Review)
'Daddy': Arjun Rampal gives Arun Gawli new life (Review) on Business Standard. Film: "Daddy"; Director: Ashim Ahluwalia; Cast: Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rajessh, Nishikant Kamat; Rating; ****
Movie Review Film: "Daddy"; Director: Ashim Ahluwalia; Cast: Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rajessh, Nishikant Kamat; Rating; **** Ask any actor of some worth. It is not easy to play a known living character. Audiences and the character that you are playing, plus their close associates, judge the performance with scrutinized harshness and normally find it wanting. Not this time. Not Arun Gawli. Not Arjun Rampal, who has shaped into one of Hindi cinema's most dependable actors who does his roles with such smooth efficiency and such noiseless excellence that we are liable to miss the point. Don't make the mistake of confusing Arjun's laidback wisdom in portraying the gangsterphilanthropist-parliamentarian-convict Arun Gawli as a Devganesque laziness. This is a power-packed implosive performance. Rampal plays Gawli as a time bomb waiting to explode. There are no extra toppings, fringe benefits, perks or bonuses to this performance. Rampal plays it straight. Director Ashim Ahluwalia gives the actor no room to stretch out his character's inner world. Fleeting looks and fugitive gestures add up to making Rampal's Gawli one of the most comprehensive projections of guilty gangsterism in recent times
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