Madras Café Review
The film Madras Café is Bollywood’s attempt at political thriller and director Shoojit Sircar has not disappointed. John Abraham plays an Indian Army special officer Vikram Singh, appointed as a RAW agent, who is posted in a civil war stricken Sri Lanka of the late 80s and early 90s. While Nargis Fakhri plays a foreign war correspondent from Britain, Rashi Khanna plays Vikram’s wife who struggles with her worries and emotions about Vikram. The action shots in the film are aggressive enough to show the devastation that Sri Lanka faced during those years of struggle.
The movie begins with describing how the assassination was a grand conspiracy. The first half stayed a bit confusing as the story skips at times but as the movie progresses to the other half all the doubts wipes out. Based on the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Lt. Rajiv Gandhi, Madras Café draws a huge crowd to watch the movie. The research is well done about the events.
The thing that itched throughout the movie is Nargis Fakhri responding in English to a Hindi speaking John.
Despite small flaws, Madras Café is a definite step forward for Bollywood, as the genre has not been worked with before. It also strides ahead in terms of serious drama without the melodrama that Indian viewers are used to. The cinematography is mind blowing with terrific visualisations and sound effects, and nothing is overdone in the film. Madras Café sticks to its genre and remains a political thriller throughout the film without romance, item numbers, vulgarity, and skin show.
The film comes to an end with an intriguing thought, who really won the war as nobody gains at the end of a war, there’s only loss.
The film Madras Café is Bollywood’s attempt at political thriller and director Shoojit Sircar has not disappointed. John Abraham plays an Indian Army special officer Vikram Singh, appointed as a RAW agent, who is posted in a civil war stricken Sri Lanka of the late 80s and early 90s. While Nargis Fakhri plays a foreign war correspondent from Britain, Rashi Khanna plays Vikram’s wife who struggles with her worries and emotions about Vikram. The action shots in the film are aggressive enough to show the devastation that Sri Lanka faced during those years of struggle.
The movie begins with describing how the assassination was a grand conspiracy. The first half stayed a bit confusing as the story skips at times but as the movie progresses to the other half all the doubts wipes out. Based on the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Lt. Rajiv Gandhi, Madras Café draws a huge crowd to watch the movie. The research is well done about the events.
The thing that itched throughout the movie is Nargis Fakhri responding in English to a Hindi speaking John.
Despite small flaws, Madras Café is a definite step forward for Bollywood, as the genre has not been worked with before. It also strides ahead in terms of serious drama without the melodrama that Indian viewers are used to. The cinematography is mind blowing with terrific visualisations and sound effects, and nothing is overdone in the film. Madras Café sticks to its genre and remains a political thriller throughout the film without romance, item numbers, vulgarity, and skin show.
The film comes to an end with an intriguing thought, who really won the war as nobody gains at the end of a war, there’s only loss.
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