BANJO. Review on Banjo

With Banjo Ravi Jadhav director of various celebrated Marathi hits makes a strong case for recognising small time street musicians as bonafide artist who have the potential to create vibrant original music, its a promising idea but the script written by Jadhav and Kapil Sawant is too simplistic and steeped in cliche . Taraat played by Riteish Deshmukh is a leader of a ragtag group of musicians from a Mumbai slum who perform at local events and religious celebrations, the men in the group all have day jobs one is a car mechanic, another a newspaper delivery boy, the third plays alongside his father shenai at weddings . Taraat meanwhile is a extortionist working for a local corporator taking care of his dirty business but the group lands the opportunity to show the wold what they really got when Chris played by Nargis Fakri a singer from New York who seeks them out to form a band and compose song for a US based music competition . The film touches interesting themes like performing from hearts or performing for one supper and to feel respected, witty dialogues nice script. Nargis is still blank .