Newton Review: Newton rediscovers Gravity of Indian Cinema!

As of the recent times, the Bollywood audience has been shifting considerably from star power to content driven cinema. Over the past few weeks movies like 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' and 'Shubh Mangal Saavdhan' has cemented that audience has started preffering content over anything else. 'Newton' adds to this list of content driven cinema. Aanand.L.Rai, the producer of content driven cinema like 'Nil Battey Sannata' and 'Shubh Mangal Saavdhan' delivers yet again a gem, 'Newton'!

'Newton' is a movie of actors and not stars. Rajkummar Rao is literally on fire! Starting from 'Trapped' to 'Newton' he is simply outstanding. Portraying Newton Kumar, a slightly disillusioned man about how the world works, he is simply phenomenal. Pankaj Tripathi as Aatma Singh, Raghubir Yadav as Loknath and Anjali Patil as Malko are simply phenomena. They portray their roles to perfection.

Amit Masurkar's direction is spot on. He skillfully depicts the scenario of an election in the modern day India. The dialogues are thought provoking and intelligent. The editing, the cinematography, the locations are pitch perfect. The movie leaves you with an important message and also makes a strong statement about the condition of electoral offices in India. The music is also audible to the years even though it is not necessary to have those.

The movie has everything going for it except the pace. The pacing of the movie is however the only villain. With all said and done 'Newton' is one of the better films of the year and deserves 4 stars! Go out and watch it.

P.S. I still prefer Rajkummar Rao as "Pritam Vidrohi" from BKB over "Newton Kumar".

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