Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Ranjan Kumar I loved it whatever it is. When i started to watch this, i was thinking thatin last some incident would happen to give the movie a conclusive farewell, there was none. There was no casting done for this, they just depicted the local people to act and for talking. But on the second hand.. Emotion was shown between a mother and his child. While drinking, Loha singh resisted that he is not harami.Ritu Maheshwari part was totally documentary while Irfan solanki part has tried to show some drama of politics.So i would say , its a documentary for 60 minutes and drama for 10 minutes. And the director put only facts for showing the ground reality of power cuts in India. It shows how a man becomes a hero while helping someone for illegal means And ineffectiveness of a IAS officer even when she is willing to change the system. So if you have a bug of looking for new things, go for it.

bobbysing If you have ever lived or at present are living in those particular parts of the cities where electric poles, hanging clutter of wires and big power transformers are installed at just a few feet away from your house or balconies then KATIYABAAZ is exactly talking about your own city and you are sure going to enjoy its realistic narration a lot, without any doubt.In other words, this is not a film/documentary made on a realistic subject but reality itself, featuring all real existing people who are still there fighting with their individual tough lives in various regions. Basically talking about the city of Kanpur in Uttar Pardesh, the story actually belongs to almost every city of India struggling with the uneven power supply and its erratic cost. Revolving around Loha Singh, the brave electrician, Ritu Maheshwari, an honest government officer and an opportunist local politician along with the common people, KATIYABAAZ doesn't follow the routine format of a documentary with a voice over explaining the situation. But defying the set norm, it impressively presents the helpless plight of the people in an unusual yet entertaining manner wherein they themselves become the good and bad characters of the film depicting the serious situation.In reality, yes there are a certain section of people who do it deliberately breaking the law, still in many cases, the common man is forced to opt for 'Bijlee Chori" unwillingly, after getting fed up from the faulty supply system and their disrespectable interaction with the consumers. Resulting in many KATIYABAAZS in the city, who are well trained in switching illegal wires (called Kaitya) stealing the electricity into several houses of a locality diverting it straight from the mail pole. Taking up a relevant and burning issue, the director duo Fahad Mustafa & Deepti Kakkar build up a great drama explaining the scenario through all real life characters playing themselves, which is both thought provoking as well as entertaining like a typical Hindi film full of tension, action, drama and comedy too with the help of many commonly used cuss words.The brilliant execution particularly makes you enjoy all the well- crafted sequences of Loha Singh (who surprisingly acts superbly). But at the same time also makes you think about the difficult life pattern of the lady IAS officer who is expected to give sufficient time to both her duty as well as the family within the available 24 hours of a day. At times one does feel awkward that probably they have shot all those official & personal scenes of the key characters with a prior preparation and instructions. Yet the thought doesn't let you find the faults and one enjoys the less than 90 minutes of its duration thoroughly.In short, KATIYABAAZ is our own slice of life which deserves to be watched essentially like one of those exceptional attempts taking you into the personal lives of few real people who are all related to the city's power supply conditions in their own distinctive ways. The documentary also needs to be seen as a must since it gives you a chance to sharpen or enhance your regular movie watching taste, which certainly isn't being served well with all the routine, predictable and mediocre Hindi films offered every Friday. To encourage you further, if you loved watching SUPERMAN OF MALEGAON a few years back then KATIYABAAZ is one step ahead than the great documentary, though not related with our Hindi cinema in any direct way.So with thanks for the presenters who made it possible for this film to at least reach the selected multiplexes, do watch the outstanding attempt if its being played in your city by making an extra effort, because your movie watching passion desperately needs to be provided with such well-made stuff more often.

Adhitya Prakash Singh If you just start shooting anything, that not going to qualify as a movie. These day I have felt that a chunk of viewers and Directors too are dying for realistic cinema. Realistic Cinema...What do you mean by realistic cinema. I go out with my cam and start shooting at the streets and all the places for two hours...that going to be a hell of real cinema...will you see that...? In a movie you use to have a story, script, sets etc... I mean you control something...You create something...You try to show something... There use to be some drama... It's not that you start shooting anything related to one issue...Bind it in one film and say it a movie...! Some of the scenes have been taken by mobile n I'm sure that cam was not more than of 2 MP...! For sure movies use to reflect whats going on in our society...But if you are going to show it in this way...It's very pathetic and shame for the industry... It's setting like new trend in our cinema that you show something realistic by using abusive language,like the character of Afsal of Gangs of Wasseypur...But only that is not going to make a good cinema...Sure it's new and thrilling thing for people but after sometime I'm sure it'll will get discarded.Realistic Cinema is high end thing...it's very subtle and different than the way people are showing... N about the ratings...! It's the simple result of the human psyche to keep himself different than others and feeling of importance... They have rated it 8 to 10 just to justify the act of watching this movie...and to keep them self aside from the mob who use to watch films like Kick...N they are shouting like "Hey look what I saw...It was classic Man...what realistic movie..." I would say it- "A Cheap Documentary on power cut in Kanpur."

Abhay Bhatt First, let me specify that I belong to the city of Kanpur - which is shown in this documentary. And, there is no doubt that the creators have shown a very realistic view of the situation here. I found no manipulation whatsoever. A brutal and honest presentation with clear-cut precision. 10/10 on that.Obviously, I belong to the city shown in the documentary, so it had to have a special value for me. But still, I think that it has a bigger entertainment value for those who belong to the northern belt of India. Not that it is meaningless for the rest. It is very informative and has a value as a documentary obviously, otherwise it would not have been nominated for and won some of the prestigious awards(see awards section)Apart from above, what is really appreciable is that creators have shown differing viewpoints in a situation crisis, in a perfectly impartial way, without being prone to adopt and support a specific side/view, especially in a deceitful and manipulative fashion(which I have seen countless times in many other famous documentaries). This has special value as this encourages a meaningful thought in the minds of readers as they question some things and ask themselves some relevant questions. Many scenes were shot live and this again is special as there are very few documentaries which show live feed, that too so much successfully.What I found lacking was objective information. The documentary is indeed informative but it touches more so on the human/emotional side and does not offer much objective data/information, which is why at the end it probably keeps viewers filled with emotions but seems to be incomplete in some respects. Overall 9/10.