Road- Movie Review- Is it worth travelling?

By Priyanka
Cast – Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Faisal Usmani, Yashpal Sharma Virendra Saxena
Director- Dev Benegal
Producer – Ross Katz Susan/B. Landau
Genre/Language –Hindi
Release Date –26th February 2010
Runtime –90 Minutes
Pro –Natural acting by Abhay Deol
Con –Lack of logic and slow pace
Rating – 2.5
Character Introduction
Vishnu -Abhay Deol
Kaushik -Satish Kaushik
Gypsy woman- Tannistha  Chatterjee
Young Boy -Mohammed Faizal Usmani
Water Mafia-Yashpal Sharma
Plot-Abhay Deol plays the role of Vishnu, a young and enthusiastic man who is not at all interested in looking after is family business of selling hair oil. Desperate to find a way out, lady luck finally shines on him when he gets the opportunity to drive an old truck to a distant town. Along the journey, he is joined by four other mad, quirky characters who keep on searching for water in the dry, barren land.

As the characters get introduced in the film, they color the movie with their talent and keep the audience guessing their actions.

We keep wondering what lies ahead in this road. As we move along the road, we meet corrupt cops and water mafia. The characters get trapped by them and they can earn freedom only in exchange of a long forgotten projector lying in the back of the truck, old films and two cases of Vishnu’s dad’s hair oil. All these things get exchanged with gallons of water, but their nightmare continues.

Reviews

Abhay Deol with his understated and subtle acting once again proves what a fine actor is he. He is a treat to watch and is extremely at ease in front of the camera.

Tannistha  Chatterjee ,again, in an offbeat role of a sultry, gypsy woman, does not disappoint and does full justice to her role.

Usmani keeps you hooked and manages to convince the audience of his talent.Satish Kaushik, too, manages to hold your attention. Other character actors including Yashpal Sharma are so so.

As a director,Benegal does not fail to show off his brilliance once again.

The beginning of the film is really interesting, but loses its focus somewhere in the mid way. At places the pace gets slow and we get bored. Even though the logic is not convincing enough, the film makes it up through its execution and performance.

The romantic track between Tannistha and Abhay is kind of loose and is not enough convincing. The climax,too,is not very clear and well developed.

Conclusion

It can be said that this film is not the typical commercial films that get churned out everyday. It belongs to the genre of what we call alternative cinema and caters to the audience who loves attending film festivals.

Travel the ‘Road’ it if you are a hard core fan of art house cinema

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