May the Almighty have mercy on us: Hollywood actor Michael Madsen has appeared in his first Indian production. Given the fun he has stagger...
May the Almighty have mercy on us: Hollywood actor Michael Madsen has appeared in his first Indian production. Given the fun he has staggering about and rattling off cod dialogue, it might not be the last.
The lush-faced actor’s irrepressible screen persona, best channelled by Quentin Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill: Volume 2, proves insurmountable for the director of the Telugu-language Nishabdham. Madsen’s every scene in the Amazon Prime Original movie is a hoot. He plays a Seattle Police Department officer who swears at the world in general and his ex-wife in particular. He calls himself Richard Dawkins, while everybody else refers to him as Richard Dickens.
Is the famously eccentric actor taking the piss? Has he divined that for all its gloss, Nishabdham is really a B-movie? Perhaps we’ll know if he ever writes a memoir.
Director Hemanth Madhukar’s ambitious screenplay ties together a haunted villa, the case of a missing woman, and the murder of a reputed musician, described as one of America’s biggest entertainers. Anthony (R Madhavan) and Sakshi (Anushka Shetty) appear to be the picture of bliss – until the day the deaf-and-mute Sakshi insists on dragging Anthony to an unoccupied house that is rumoured to be haunted by the owner’s ghost.
Sakshi, an artist, wants...
