The movie is not well edited, and the songs (at least 5-6) are superfluous. Some scenes are repetitive. The movie would have been hard-hitting and absorbing if it had been just one and a half hour long (instead of two and a half), because the content is good, even without a strong plot. That is an achievement in itself.
I watched it and found it humorous at many places. But some scenes like the street play on Singur Issue was totally out of context and irrelevant!! It felt the humor was suddenly switched off. Ravi Kishan is a very famous Bhojpuri hero and even AB has acted with him in a Bhojpuri movie. I liked Shreyas though. Overall its a one time watch I think ..on a Sunday afternoon type.
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Your review is objective Nita, you have given pros and cons. I saw this movie and got bored in many parts. Overall my impression was not that good. This was some sort of hotch potch of an art film and commerial cinema.
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Mahadev has had to learn the hard way that having a college education does not necessarily lead to getting a job. Yep, welcome to the real world circa 2008. His hopes of writing a religious novel dashed, he returns to his village to live with his mother (his father had run off). Mahadev finds that he can make some money writing letters on behalf of the villagers who are illiterate. He sometimes takes creative and dramatic liberties in his work, which actually makes him more popular with those who have trouble expressing themselves. Yet, since this is a job, he often takes any job given to him, no matter how ridiculous or prosaic.
A compounder (that might be like a pharmacist or chemist, but I am not sure) who falls for a widow. He can write, but he wants Mahadev to be his Cyrano in order to woo her effectively, even though she is under the thumb of her strict father-in-law.
A landlord who is wants his wife to be elected one of the female village elders (it is implied that she murdered a rival candidate). Mahandev is to spread rumors that the husband of another rival is a spy for Pakistan.
Mahadev is unable to fully come to grips with the consequences of his involvement in certain actions until the damage is done. Perhaps all of these things would have happened anyways had the village had a higher literacy rate; perhaps not. While the plot of the movie may be difficult to map out, the main dramatic thread is wondering whether Mahadev will stop being so cynically self-centered and disdainful of the villagers, maybe doing something because it is the right thing to do as opposed to being paid or coerced into doing anything. That he should use his powers for good instead of selfishness or apathy. This may be similar to a lot of fish-out-of water movies, I suppose. Yet, the change has to come from within, not from the outside. Usually, though, the protagonist either imparts his knowledge unto the uneducated masses or he picks up their ways. Neither of those things happen here. He does not change the village, nor does the village change him, at least not to any significant degree.
Speaking of the villagers, the grasp of modernity is shaky at best. The landlord points out that even women are allowed to hold public office now, skipping over how the gender quota had been in place for fifteen years already. Then there is a little bit in the end that I will not spoil. Most important, though, is the level of illiteracy. Lack of literacy leads to a subtle divide in status, but it does not seem to limit what people feel that they can do. Anyone, including the landlord, can just pressure Mahadev to write for them. The landlord does not believe that illiteracy is an obstacle in holding public office. Certainly, he has more power than Mahadev or the widow does. The ability to read or write is treated like a skill; the level of its usefulness is somewhere in between knowing how to drive and learning how to play the bassoon. The village may be slowly changing with the times, but Mahadev cannot change the village any more than the village can change Mahadev. In both cases, the change has to come from within.
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