Apr 14, 2009 08:35 PM
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*Plot:
* A daringly innovative storyline but at the same time a frequented baseline of meek turning strong or a "tables turned" movie
A middle class Marathi or Maharashtrian individual, brilliantly orchestrated by Sachin Khedekar, is constantly chided, rebuked, teased and loathed in Mumbai by many non-Marathi blokes at different instances even though at regular intervals.
He stays in an ancestral property wherein there are tenants who are his friends if not a part of his family. His is a square family with his son, daughter and his wife all having their very own modern expectations which stretch him to the nadir
All this rankling and his meek nature erupts in a fateful nightly rave and rant scene wherein he curses himself to have been born as a Marathi individual and what follows next is just what the doctor orders for sore eyes! Sachin Khedekar-Suchitra Bandekar-Priya Bapat-Siddharth Jadhav are fantastic
Mahesh Manjrekar is well within himself as the great Maratha king. Slippings of Bharat Jadhav and Ankush Choudhary embellish this movie The soundtrack is good if not better. The sequences have been well supported by the soundtrack
Cinematography is awesome whilst the great king rides on. All in all a movie to be watched by everyone and a feeling of inner strength , puffing up of chest, a frustration of sorts for Marathi speaking people who find themselves chided now and again in their very own land -area-place for their existence comes to the fore
The movie tends to drag on a bit at the end but no ones complaining for this as all is well that ends well. In practicality there are skeptics who will not advocate the nuances of the movie to a possible extent but then the glorious uncertainties of today and misnomers of the present make us believe that anything is possible
The movie delves deeply into the psyche of the Marathi Manus even as it bares its belly to give undercurrents of Mumbai belongs to the people who settled over here prior to 1975 and to no one else. Alas! all the things mentioned in the movie cannot be true and will not be true, for the single voice of a Marathi Manus is stifled by a thousand secular drumbeats. The film can be watched by the family but should not be viewed by toddlers.
