Madholal…Keep Walking Movie Review

Friday, August 27, 2010

Rate: 2/5

 

Cast: Subrat Dutta, Neela Gokhale, Pranay Narayan and Swara Bhaskara




"Chawl Mumbai culture is never too far from Hindi cinema. From Basu Chatterjee Piya Ka Ghar is Sanjay Jha has Pran Jaye Par Chawl Na Jaye is Mahesh Manjrekar golden city of Striker and Chandan Arora, many interesting stories and the flexibility of the family was on the screen where no self-pity or hatred of people who are disadvantaged in their lives with dignity, optimism and humor, even if the hours of queuing for public toilets dirty.

Madholal ... Keep Walking is a good look at the people we know of chawls although we have never been in one. The conversation between the characters is authentic. But the sad thing is that these characters do not seem to be saying something that anyone outside the interests of the people who talk about mundane issues involved acquires a certain quality to the screen where banality is treated with extraordinary empathy. This was the case recently with Irfan Kamal Thanks Maa in the search for a young neighborhood to be a parent makes all the characters in the routine is a life beyond their boredom named.

In Madholal ... The plot and dialogue do not create interest in the characters. For half the film we grow comfortable with hand to mouth in the world of the protagonist (Subrat Dutta) Madholal, family loving wife and two daughters and her circle of friends that he commutes by train every days. The conversation between two friends is primarily about sex or the lack thereof.

Can not remember with joy and warmth middle-class women to travel back and forth on local trains in Mumbai soap "Special Women. None of these characters travel in overcrowded trains Madholal seems interesting enough to meet, let alone in the house.

Amid the housing narrative there is an explosion of a bomb on a train. The life of the people who populate the movie are over. Madholal, we are happy to know, walk. There are poignant moments in the history of design and emotional sincerity that is played in the second half. The actor who plays Purba Dutta Madholal reflects a deep anxiety and helplessness in the second half. His train trip at the end when it comes to dealing with your situation has changed in life is a measure of resistance embodied middle class in Mumbai.

Unfortunately the film never quite takes off. The plot is too rough on his noble intentions to transmit the pain of ordinary people caught in the decline of terrorism. It looks like the immortal spirit of Mumbai is like a village Mela after closing. If Slumdog Millionaire has been Madholal Mumbai on steroids ... Keep Walking takes life from a lifeless chawl trip.