A befitting tribute to an immensely watchable movie! I admire Vishal Bharadwaj's guts to not bow down to market pressure & make a movie in a dialect that not many people outside north India would understand. While the producers of Munnabhai MBBS were apprehensive that people outside Mumbai might not understand the "Mumbaiya" hindi that's spoken in the movie & might reject the movie, I think Vishal Bharadwaj had a bigger risk at hand - the Indian audiences have been pounded with so many "Mumbaiya" characters over the years that the audience has a decent grasp on the Mumbai dialect. But a dialect from the hinterlands of UP has not been explored widely in Bollywood. What also surprised me - though pleasantly - was Saif Ali Khan's portrayal of Bharadwaj's Iago. I already liked him as an actor but I thought he was best suited to the Hum Tum, Salaam Namaste kind of roles. He's done a brilliant job in Omkara! Not even for a second did I think that another actor might have been able to pull it off better. On the other hand, the less said about Vivek Oberoi the better - I wonder why the guy even bothers to act! I don't think the audiences feels any sympathy for him as an actor at all.
