Gulzar one of our brilliant directors who gave us several great films in the past and recent too, MAACHIS is one of them. Maachis introduced Chandrachur Singh, Jimmy Shergill(name was Jasjit Shergill then) and many new faces like Ravi Gossain In 1990's several terrorist based films made foray in India like the dubbed ones Roja(1992), Bombay(1995) Maachis is based on the aftermath of Sikh Riots and how common man become terrorists. The film starts off with a suicide and then moves in flashback, after the scene we are suddenly cut to Chod Aaye Hum a brilliant song and then cut to the past when Chandrachur lived with Tabu and Raj Jhutsi and then slowly the events keep you hooked. The manner in which the terrorists make plans are shown very well, while the pains, trauma is all well handled The climax too is moving. Mostly Gulzar keeps cinematic liberties to minimum, if you can excuse some of them(very few) Gulzar does a brilliant job as a director Music by Vishal Bharadwaj is superb, Chod Aaye hum which has KK singing his first song with a bunch of singers like Sukwinder. Chappa Chappa is wonderful Lata's songs Pani Re and others are good too
Chandrachur Singh makes a terrific debut, the actor was known as a great actor who didn't really suit in song n dance films, in this film he does a brilliant job and won the award for debutante. Tabu does a great job in her perhaps one of the first offbeat roles, she proves that she can carry a hardhitting role too. Both were teamed again in the bakwaas Aamdhaani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiya(2001) Raj Jhutsi is superb, Ravi Gossain is terrific too Om Puri is flawless in his role, Khulbushan Kharbandra leaves a great impact in a brief role, Suneel Sinha as Vajera is superb Jimmy Shergill is decent in his debut though he doesn't get much meaty scenes Kanwaljeet Singh is terrific, S M Jaheer as Khurana is great too
Chandrachur Singh makes a terrific debut, the actor was known as a great actor who didn't really suit in song n dance films, in this film he does a brilliant job and won the award for debutante. Tabu does a great job in her perhaps one of the first offbeat roles, she proves that she can carry a hardhitting role too. Both were teamed again in the bakwaas Aamdhaani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiya(2001) Raj Jhutsi is superb, Ravi Gossain is terrific too Om Puri is flawless in his role, Khulbushan Kharbandra leaves a great impact in a brief role, Suneel Sinha as Vajera is superb Jimmy Shergill is decent in his debut though he doesn't get much meaty scenes Kanwaljeet Singh is terrific, S M Jaheer as Khurana is great too