2018, Marathi, Amazon Prime, 7.7/10 IMDB, Directed by Lokesh Gupte
Four friends from distorted family backgrounds attend a dance party for the first time, drinking and smoking, but there’s no drugs involved.
Police gets a tip and raids the building. The policeman leading the raid is in for a surprise that makes him rage with fury. All the 4 friends along with many others from the party, are retained in the police station over night and taken to the court and then considering their age are warned and asked to pay a fine.
Each family reacts differently on the incident but in one friend’s house, the situation gets out of hand and unfortunate things happen. That’s the rest of the movie.
The montage song’s lyric after a grim sequence of events goes like this, “Tell me, where is your hide out, come hang out with me for a while.. Your palms were left in the damp while I stumbled in the dirt ” (I bet the Marathi version would be even more intense). OMG that just shakes you, that lyric.
Given that we are familiar with all the ‘Gyan’ that goes into parenting and we consider ourselves to have mastered them all. But this lyric just tore open my conscious and all the mishaps / misinterpretations, however trivial they were, that I faced during my kid’s upbringing, kind of haunted me.
Have to give it to the director and the actors for their heart wrenching performances. Kay Kay Menon’s best so far.. Rajeshwari sachdev out does him in certain scenes with her lost eyes.
I have sobbed watching movies, have even cried discreetly, but this one just made me moan the loss as if it was in my own family.. Power of dialogues, striking background score takes the movie to the next level.
It does become preachy in the end but surprisingly I didn’t mind it at all and was listening to every word uttered.
Just because I don’t want to hint on the plot with spoilers, I wind it up here. Else would have written on the things that affected me, moved me, that left me with a void.. I could have gone on and on…
PS. I have not uploaded link for the trailer, as I don’t want any spoilers for you and want you to enjoy (experience) the movie just the way I did.
Must watch👍