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| Cast: Shiny Ahuja, Shilpa Shetty, Konkona Sen Sharma, Irfan Khan | | Director: Anurag Basu | | Producer: Ronnie Screwvala | | Music: Pritam |
Anupama Chopra, Consulting Editor, Films
This week's big release is Life in a Metro. Frankly, I was a little wary of Metro. It seemed like yet another multiplex movie with multiple stories, too many tears and faux urban grit. But Metro turned out to be an unexpected delight.
Metro is about love and longing in Mumbai. It's about how this maximum city fuels big dreams but crushes small desires.
It's about the difficulty of finding affection and grace in lives convoluted by ambition, crowds and compromises.
Shilpa Shetty and Konkona Sen Sharma play sisters. Shilpa's husband, played by Kay Kay Menon, is having an affair with his colleague, played by Kangana Ranaut who is also Konkona's roommate.
Their sexual trysts take place in the flat of another employee, played by Sharman Joshi, who also likes Kangana. Meanwhile Konkona, a 30-year-old virgin, longs for companionship but rejects Irfan Khan because he peers, a little too hard, at her cleavage.
Shilpa finds laughter with Shiney Ahuja who she meets at a bus stop. Beyond this interlocked mating dance are two lovers who spent their lives apart but seek out each other in old age.
This couple is played by Nafisa Ali and Dharmendra. Just the sight of still dashing-Dharmji, standing on a railway platform, is enough to make your heart soar.
Metro is full of small pleasures. Writer-director Anurag Basu doesn't make shrill statements about loneliness or sexual promiscuity. He doesn't judge his characters.
The acting is uniformly good. Shilpa Shetty is surprisingly effective as the betrayed wife but the stand-out performer is Irfan Khan. He does the earnest, seriously un-cool 40-year-old virgin to perfection.
Dharmendra's track feels a tad too long and composer Pritam makes far too many wandering minstrel-style appearances. But these are minor quibbles. I enjoyed Metro. I think you will too.
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Surfer Speaks....
METRO.....a place where we mask us as growth means compromise,isolation dats contentment, compromise means happy.Relationship dats not matenee entertainment...dats desire of every heart so it degnify its degnity.....complex yet so simple....i loved d ending...quest in life....no one as happy....but satisfied....get placed but when copletely devaled....dats really we r having in life. -- anu (anumisra2001@gmail.com)
Easily one of the best movies of the year
-- sandy
A good film with a strong subject .Relationship. Love and sex.But one mistake in the script!Ranjit came out from the flate throwing money to Neha.Neha went to toilet and drank phenol.She laid on the floor.But surprisingly,Rahul entered there with a prostitute thereafter.How he did enter?If the door remained open,then Rahul should have worried at the doorstep.After all, the KEY of the flate plays an important role in the film! -- Janardan Goswami (johnrdon@yahoo.co.in)
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