Lost Review: This "Lost" Movie Cannot Even Be Saved By Yami Gautam
StarCast: Yami Gautam, Pankaj Kapur, Rahul Khanna, Tushar Pandey, Pia Bajpiee
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Rating: 3/5
The news of a devastating bomb blast somewhere in Bengal's Purulia district opens the movie. The only bang Lost, streaming on Zee5, offers is that. The two-hour journalistic procedure drags on for the remainder of its length and ends with a whimper.
It is not to argue that Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's (Anuranan, Antaheen, Pink) multi-award-winning film Lost is without any redeeming features. It has some intriguing moments, but they are just too sporadic to give the movie a boost.
At moments, Lost looks to be on the verge of making a significant political statement on young alienation. The film centers on three young people: an investigative journalist, a street theatre activist, and a television newscaster. But taking everything into account, the movie lacks the zeal to be really honest and call things as they are.
Lost loses its footing and significantly falls short of what it strives to be - an acute and urgent listing of the barriers to progressing as a truth-seeker in a society that turns a blind eye to those who have been driven to its periphery.
Insightful and speaking on many levels, including the danger of becoming overly emotionally attached in the subject of one's story, "Lost" is more than just a tightly wound thriller. It's handled extremely sensitively and well. The film's score maintains the suspense high, and Shantanu Moitra's lyrical music enhances the story. The vibrant colours, mood, and picturesque byways of Kolkata are brought to life by Avik Mukhopadhyay's cinematography. Nonetheless, there are several narrative arcs in "Lost" that feel hurried and weak.
Lost would want us to think that those who control the whole system in addition to rebels are similarly apt to manipulate the kids of this nation. Also, it provides statistics on the large number of persons who go missing every day in this nation and connects that problem to the more particular problem of political activists being persecuted. That goes way too far.
Lost is a dispiritingly meandering attempt to understand the tension between the important and the convenient in a country with numerous unbridgeable faultlines. Lost is lost in a tangle of contradicting messages.
