Abhishek Bachchan, Anurag Basu’s Ludo Netflix Movie Review

It is easy to liken life to just about anything, especially when it comes to sport. So, ludo is fair game. Anurag Basu’s Ludo , a Netflix original film, takes the analogy all the way down to the home stretch – and a little beyond – to come up with a screwball action-comedy that is as delightfully peppy as it is unapologetically pulpy.

Basu , who is also the film’s cinematographer and production designer besides playing a key on-screen role as a sutradhar of sorts, injects a picaresque, fable-like quality and a whole lot of wacky humour into his Ludo, a goofy take on love, loss and letting go that say about the dynamics of fortune in the wildly fluctuating lives of the characters who people four diverse, intersecting stories