The Last Leaf inspiration comes to life just after the interval, when Pakhi moves to a family guest house in Dalhousie after losing her father. As she struggles with her terminal illness and fights to get over the shattering memories of love, Varun comes back to her life. This time with a more intensely sketched screenplay, the lead pair come closer and fight for each other. While Pakhi concentrated on completing her book and waited for the last leaf to fall, Varun gave her a flare to live her life one last time. Motwane very efficiently portrayed two doomed lovers stretching out of sphere and leading to a memorable climax frame.
Amit Trivedi did a brilliant job to score the film with an ultra-sensitive scale, which touches viewers' heart and promises to bring out every drop out of a cinematographic frame. The songs were very well placed and never expressed overwhelmingly spreading over the story-line.
Being a period film, Lootera’s director had everything from extensive research to money and he knew the 50’s feature length pace which had to be spread over a crux of ‘short plot’. But that definitely left some audience yawning and longing for more concrete play.
Still I shall move one step ahead to say ‘Lootera gave me poetry, classic cinematography and some touching tragic elements to remember’. I would give it 3 and a half Reel Points.
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