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Posted by admin in Movie: Road
Starring: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee
Director: Satish Kaushik
Rating: *
Thinking that the film Road will take you on a roller-coaster ride or maybe it is about touring cinema? Alas, it is neither of the two. The film Road is designed as one of those typical festival films that pretend to be a transformative journey of a character who en route discovers the true meaning of life, love and the rest is history.
In an attempt to escape his father’s hair oil business, Vishnu (Abhay Deol) grabs the opportunity of driving an antique truck across the desert to be stationed in a local museum. Now do not expect any rollicking road adventure since the narrative never picks up pace like the tiresome truck. Along his deserted trip, Vishnu gives lift to a young boy (Mohammed Faizal Usmani), a migrating mechanic (Satish Kaushik) and a gypsy woman (Tannishtha Chatterjee). Vishnu soon realizes that his tattered truck also houses a touring cinema. Again, do not expect any innovative story emerging from the functioning of the transportable theatre. The portable projector hardly plays in the film, out of which one is a part of an extended dream sequence.
As the film ends, Abhay Deol indulges in a tel malish (head massage) act onscreen. One would need an equally stimulating tel malish on watching this drab movie. This film road leads to nowhere. It simply takes you for a ride leading to a need for a good tel malish.
Oh yes! I do agree that the movie is not that great. I wonder then why Robert De Niro expressed his wish to watch this movie. Another publicity gimmick, perhaps! Well, this movie is certainly experimental and is of a sensibility that is quite distant from mainstream Hindi cinema. All in all the movie is fairly okay and is worth a watch.
As I was reading this review, I noticed that the storyline resembled a movie called as Road Prophets. It seems to have shades of this film, only in that the two characters were on their own motorcycles instead of a truck. Quite intriguing to me.
Even I agree that the movie is not that good. Though it could have been made far more better by the use of acting skills of Abhay Deol, Tanisshtha & Satish. Also some of the props mentioned in the fil are good but they are not utilized properly in the story plot of the movie. The antique truck could have added more spice & adventure to the story but it hasn’t been done so.
Hi, in some point I would agree that the movie is not that good. But on the other hand the movie has something to tell. It deals about the search for real meaning of life and the purpose of existince.