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Hunterrrrrr - Gulshan Devaiah Will Definitely Hunt You Down with His Scintillating and Titillating Performance!!!!!

I bet not many of you could claim to watch Gulshan Devaiah's Hunterrr starring also the ever-so-magnificent Radhika Apte. Like many of those great, misleading movies, it also gets categorized wrongly, an adult comedy (Thank your Gods and Indian Censor Board for at least calling it THAT) precisely whereas if you would ask me, I shall simply like to call it an 'adult drama'. It's undoubtedly hilarious in many parts but if a comedy makes you cringe in your guts, what would you call it? It also made me sad at various moments and then let me empathize with its lead characters in Radhika Apte, Gulshan and his friend Kshitij. Let me go one better: It's a very serious film that discusses the concept of perverseness and sexual mischievousness explicitly through its protagonist, Mandhar. Mandhar is a VASU, apparently a some type of sect that tries to hit on girls and women repeatedly without really committing to a long term relationship or letting itself fall in LOVE. Success ratio of VASU sect is outstanding considering what its representatives really do and our Mandhar is its undisputed champion for he is doing Vasugiri for last 15 years. The film depicts his life journey with utter convince and if I remove first 40 minutes of it, I found it extremely believable and engaging. Gulshan Devaiah, someone must do a story on this enormously talented actor. He literally sent a shiver to our spines with his first starring role in Anurag Kashyap's 'Shaitan' and here he is trying to break a glass ceiling that has confined him to being an art-house product and a serious actor. He is not portraying the life of a sex addict here. If you get slightest of this idea by watching Hunterr's trailer, you would be sadly mistaken. He goes on his sexual adventures alright or misadventures I would rather say but he never once shows a sign of mental digression. If you really want to witness the live of a sex addict, watch Steve McQueen's 'Shame' instead starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Our Mandhar finds love too in Radhika Apte and she has got a history of her own of many casual affairs but she has concealed one very deep scar too which I could not afford to reveal here. Ending of Hunterr is one of the most gladdening aspect of it for many Indian dramas start off brilliantly to only lose all their charms and steam later. Hunterr is one true omission of that increasingly frustrating and disappointing list. It's also one of the bravest films that one average Indian viewer could have his hand on for our much-maligned censor board blocks everything off and for that deviant behavior that lets Hunterr off its hook, Censor Board of India must be congratulated as well. What's more, Hunterr made money too on box office with its lowly budget of 6 crores. Better still, its director is coming up with a sequel titled 'Hunterr 2' with Gulshan and Radhika again headlining it. I must say I am one happy viewer after watching this most challenging of Indian Movies of year 2015. I am happier for I followed my instincts that started kicking me inside when I fell for its trailer and song: 'Chori-Chori, Teri Meri; Love Story, Chalne De' for the first time. Arijit Singh and Sona Mohapatra, how could I really thank you enough Guys?

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