Girish Malik’s much-touted cinematic bravura is a piece of work that will impress you only visually. The drab plot and the tragedy of epic proportion will leave you profoundly confused-to the extent that you will wonder in the end if this movie was over hyped beyond description!
Girish Malik’s Jal might have been mounted as a visually delightful experimental cinema with the adequate flavours of a masala entertainer, but in reality it is just a complex ( and complicated) montage of stunningly shot visuals that will leave your head numb (read: barren).
Certainly not crafted for an average movie goer, this drama-set against the backdrop of the parched and barren landscape of Rann of Kutch-unfolds in the form of disjointed frames and highly dramatic sequences that will draw big yawns from you. If the first half forces you to search for a definite plot in the fragmented narrative, the second half slips into a tragedy of epic proportion. Throughout this butt-numbing watch though certain things stay consistent-sincere performances from the actors, brilliant cinematography and a story-line that remains as barren as the never-ending land of Rann of Kutch..........
