Movie Review-The Last Lear

Its an ok kind of a movie, nothing great. There are some scenes in the movie which are really good, but thats very common on AB to give his Midas touch to some simple scenes in any movie and prove that he is the best. Watch it in a CD, dont waste hard earned money in the theatre.
BASED on Utpal Dutt's classic play, Aajker Shahenshah, The Last Lear is a sad example

of how adaptation can sometimes scuttle a good script and transform a landmark theatrical experience into flawed cinema. The film only works for Amitabh Bachchan aficionados who can savour the desi bard bellowing out the best of Shakespeare in his characteristic baritone. The actor still manages to create magic moments on the screen as he portrays the arrogance and the naked need of a has-been actor who believes he is always good, simply because he can never be bad. Yet, he clings desperately to his last chance to display histrionics and is even ready to grovel before the filmmaker for his famous last shot. The film traces the resurrection of Harry (Amitabh), a retired actor who lives in a dimly-lit house with memories of a glorious past, until he is pulled out of anonymity by Sid (Arjun Rampal), the avant garde filmmaker who wants to make a realistic film. After some drunken camaraderie, Harry consents to play the clown in the movie and forges a friendship with both the director and the lead actress, Preity Zinta. But, when the curtains go up, and the accolades begin to pour in after the premier, Harry is back behind the tightly shut blinds of his house and the show simply goes on: ruthlessly, selfishly, unkindly. It's a poignant story that loses most of its bite because of the rambling screenplay and the unnecessary subplot about emotionally battered women and feminist wailing. Preity Zinta, Shefali Shah and Divya Dutta form a chest-beating sisterhood that consumes most of the screen time with their pointless tales of emotional abuse. Also, the story is told by a narrator who gives a whiny voice-over that rids the film of all its subtlety. Add to this, the unconvincing climax, and you have a film that becomes watchable, here and there: when Arjun Rampal and Amitabh Bachchan indulge in creative banter.