The baseline of the movie is the impact of a bomb blast in Train in Mumbai on the life of few Mumbaikaars, Paresh Rawal (Inspector Tikaram Patil), R.Madhavan (Nikhil Aggarwal), Soha Ali Khan (Rupali Joshi, News Reporter), Kay Kay Menon (Suresh) and Irfan Khan (Thomas, a Tamilian selling tea), apart from these lead actors Vijay Maurya (Sunil Kadam) played an excellent role. The movie is directed by Nishikant Kamat, the one who caught the attention of the audience through his debut Film Dombivalli Fast (Marathi).
The best line in the movie, to me, "rona aara hai not allowed.... police ka wardi pehen ke rona allowed nahi pissap kar pura paani bahar" (do you want to cry now, its not allowed in Police uniform, if tears come piss off, all the water will be out) often repeated by Paresh Rawal in the film.
The story is well woven by the writers Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye with an excellent insight on the socio-psychological aspects of the modern life.
The movie excellently portrays the attitude of lower rung Police officials and the frustration caused due to their inability and how they vent the frustration. If one asks the road side vendors about the Policemen he would be having enough stories at the end of the conversation. My friend had a bitter experience of late night walk in the streets after which he never steps out of his home after 10 P.M.
The charm of the subaltern people towards the shopping malls and how they are treated/humiliated in the malls is a thought provoking scene as the existing disparity in income and the spending disparity will result in chaos if not treated then and there. An existing irony in that mall is the sales man who humiliates the Irfaan family don't have the buying power which hardly he understands thats the real face of our society. The scene where Irfaan rejoice after making hoax calls of bomb in mall is excellently thought off and shot, a man's revenge against his humiliation and the way he enjoys the revenge awesome! Irfaan's character's basic nature is not violent or aggression, the story clings to it and gives us that the basic nature can not be altered irrespective of how the society acts on him.
A Hindu fanatic, Suresh, who eyes every Muslim with suspicion and even goes in search of some Muslims with the thought of they are responsible for the blasts, the director gives you enough room to believe that his thoughts are correct. His fanaticism is at threshold after the blasts, despite having a huge dues to be paid off he refuses a offer given by a Muslim. There are many such fanatics in the society.
The director lashes at the face of Media for their irresponsible mocking attitude from the beginning itself. His cirticism against the media is a valid one, the news channel where Rupali works make her grief a prime time show and makes business, a sms question in that is ' will Rupali become an unwed widow' if you say yes.... Everything has become business nowadays, the news channels are growing in numbers which results in the search of making someone's grief a good business, we could see how stupidly the reporters are shooting questions, they even did a live telecast of 26/11 NSG operations which costed the lifes of commandos. The government should bring a new legislation to regulate the news channels. Isn't it too absurd to ask a person who lost his family how do you feel?
Through Nikhil's US return friend the director says us the upcoming generation will be adapted towards the violence and bomb blasts, definitely its what we are witnessing and the media never fails to bring news without any violence nowadays, its not the media fault alone, we too need such news to refer somewhere either to justify some actions or oppose.
Paresh Rawal's retirement speech is superbly played with the words a special credit goes to the dialogue writer. " During my childhood I had a great craze over spectacles as i had the thought that by wearing spectacle one could see far but only after wearing the spectacle I realised that to see far you need a different view" The entire speech is impressive.
I didn't understand why a security woman in the mall didn't help Irfaan family to board on the escalator she was simply standing is it the true nature of security in mall or the director missed that purposefully to make the scene more interesting, also, Thomas's wife, a Tamilian, wears nose ring on the left side of her nose but Tamilians wear it on the right side, might be the director is not aware about it.
While watching the movie if you run your thoughts with the intention of guessing what comes next with your acute cinema knowledge you would be fooled, the story has been excellently portrayed and the screenplay is well written. The movie is worth a watch, you have every genres touch in the movie, watch it and share your view.
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