Road, Movie (2009)

Abhay Deol is the hero of the new age crowd who loves intelligent and experimental cinema. I myself seldom miss any of his movies. I even watched a chick flick like ‘Aisha’ for him, and that same excitement for his movie made me watch, Road, Movie.

The movie starts slowly, progresses slowly and ends slowly. At times it feels like the director was paid to torture the audience. Although the movie can easily become part of the exclusive club of “Artistic Cinema”, even I like artistic movies, but sometimes a director’s misplaces sense of creativity conflicts with viewer’s expectations. But to tell the truth, who puts Rs. 8 crores to produce an art movie.

Although performance wise the movie is good, supporting actors have done good work; especially Satish Kaushik is first grade, the movie comes up with certain good dialogues once in a while, even white sand dessert shots are beautiful.

But story is lame and purposeless, the movie was supposed to be about journey of a man while discovering himself, but director makes it a point to frustrate the audience by reveling nothing about the mentality of the same man, only thing that you know throughout the movie is that the man doesn’t want to work for his father’s oil business and even in the end how is life is impacted is not revealed. I would like to mention the sequence where all the characters are searching for the ‘mela’ in desert, the endless scene constantly showing barren land makes you feel dizzy and thirsty as the movie characters themselves. 

Overall negatives of the movie simply makes you feel, was the movie worth 2 hours of your life?

Rating *1/2