Chinatown was a classic and Navdeep Singh remade it into a film which I believe would over the years define the Indian film noir genre. Manorama Six feet Under was released in 2007 when I was in the first year of graduation. That was a time when we enjoyed whirlwind entertainers and watched a lot of Chinese action flicks which had nothing to do with logic or gravity for that matter. Noirs were not exactly a splash in the pan for us at that time but the trailers of Manorama sparked a lot of curiosity for the project.
Overall Manorama six Feet under, is a terrific thriller which is reminiscent of the glimmer of hope for a change from the crass masala potboilers that Bollywood has come to be known for. These are films which keeps the blood flowing through the veins of Bollywood which otherwise has glitz coursing through. It is a film which can be watched and re-watched just for the beauty and material of it. Highly recommended.
So what does the director do here? Navdeep Singh has crafted a film dripping with nuances of life in a small desert town, and has used the metaphor of the desert to suggest the aridness and sterility of the life of the chief protagonist, Satyaveer Randhawa, underplayed superbly by Abhay Deol.
The film does not have a climax in the conventional sense, which may leave a lot of people feeling highly dissatisfied, but a degree of redemption is achieved by the chief protagonist. Satyaveer Randhawa is again not a hero, he is not the good guy who is absolutely honest and incorruptible, but as the film proceeds, we understand that he is corrupt too. Evil is not vanquished in the end, neither does justice triumph. Evil is something that is at best lived with, because it resides in us and not in the "villain". All that we can do is to come to terms with it and with ourselves.
Satyaveer Randhawa is a junior engineer in the Water department and also the writer (under a pen name) of a thriller novel called Manorama, which manages to sell only two hundred copies. This failure compels him to write for pulp magazines instead. Frustrated and dissatisfied with his existence and the burden of failure, he tries to redeem himself by taking up a mysterious assignment for the wife of a local politician, who wants him to spy on her husband. But then everything is not what it seems and things go haywire, as future events manifest.
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