A road trip..... funny, quirky, dark and soulful at one time.
The characters are sketched out beautifully, especially the highly opinionated Shaukat and the dejected and serious Avinash, with Tanya being the quintessential millenial, each with their own issues, and like Tanya says "hum sab ka father department mein tragedy hai na". A perfect cast, with brilliant performances.
The narrative, as intended on a road trip I guess, is curved and bumpy as the road, a trip with several unplanned detours..... also as beautiful .........metaphorically as also one of the most picturesque drives that South India has to offer.
A journey that shifts perspectives.......and so shifts self and relationships.
@Vijji aunty, thanks so much for the strong recommendation ....I hadn't even heard of the movie up until then....and more, for saying it like you did. "You should absolutely go watch it" she said, and so I did , and I'd watch it again too :)
What I told mom as we walked out "that's the kind of funny I like.......a movie that made me laugh so much".....laugh at the quirks of life in the most serious and profound spaces.....spaces of introspection, lost dreams, generation gaps, attitudes........ even mortality itself.
Three most disparate souls, Avinash, (Dalquer Salmaan) , Shaukat (Irrfan Khan) and Tanya (Mithila Palkar), in one van, with one dead body, going from Bangalore to Cochin via Ooty.
The characters are sketched out beautifully, especially the highly opinionated Shaukat and the dejected and serious Avinash, with Tanya being the quintessential millenial, each with their own issues, and like Tanya says "hum sab ka father department mein tragedy hai na". A perfect cast, with brilliant performances.
The narrative, as intended on a road trip I guess, is curved and bumpy as the road, a trip with several unplanned detours..... also as beautiful .........metaphorically as also one of the most picturesque drives that South India has to offer.
A journey that shifts perspectives.......and so shifts self and relationships.
@Vijji aunty, thanks so much for the strong recommendation ....I hadn't even heard of the movie up until then....and more, for saying it like you did. "You should absolutely go watch it" she said, and so I did , and I'd watch it again too :)
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