Best movie ever. Review on Sairat

Sairat Marathi Movie Review:

Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry, that released a few years back, made ripples in the cinema world. There has seldom been such unabashed critique of the caste system of the country. The film certainlyshook up the Indian public. It also made people sit up and take notice of a new voice in the form of Nagraj Manjule’s directorial capabilities that had emerged in Marathi cinema. This new voice not only had something unsettling and relevant to say, but also knew how to say it to make the maximum impact. Manjule’s latest film Sairat that has been solidly backed by Zee, also lays bare the monster that is the hierarchical caste system, but is different in its approach than his debut feature film. Fandry had an arthouse aesthetic, but Sairat is certainly more mainstream, but with no less impact.

There is nothing very novel in the basic plot of the film. It is a spin-off on theepic love stories like that of Romeo – Juliet, but with a caste angle. Instead of two warring families we here have the big wall of the caste system that the two star crossed lovers have had the courage to climb. After all these years I don’t really think most people go to the movies just to see the stories unfold; it is more about how you are saying whatever that you want to say, that matters. Quite a few marathi films these days take up fresh and unexplored subjects, but the execution is most of the times not upto the mark. Nagraj Manjule, however, clearly knows how to tell his storymaking Sairat a nearly 3 hour saga that hardly leaves you off the hook in its entire duration