Director: Dev Benegal
Star Cast: Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik

The first glance at the movie’s title, may make you feel that it is an exciting flick of different type but things favorably may not appear so at a deeper insight.

The main theme of the story is built around mobile theater that is rarely sighted now, except in remote areas of India where in the film it is portrayed as a joyful carnival. Here the noted director Dev Benegal has reflected the movie in a mediocre lifestyle depicting roadside standers.

Noted actor of ‘Dev D’ Abhay Deol showcases the transformation of character that take place during the en route of his road journey with his mobile theatre. Eventually in this term of exploration to various regions, Abhay who portrays as Vishnu in the film discovers the true meaning of life.

 

He pursues this entertaining career in order to escape from his father’s hair oil business and luckily he gets an opportunity drive an antique truck across the desert to take it to a local museum. In the process of his journey in the desert he meets a young boy (Mohammed Faizal Usmani), a migrating mechanic (Satish Kaushik) and a gypsy woman (Tannishtha Chatterjee).

 

Later they discover that the tattered truck is uploaded with transportable theatre which is not of very fresh piece but little bit defective as the portable projector hardly works when they show case films on road.

 

This simpleton later confronts with a water mafia played by Yashpal Sharma who is infamous for his illegal water operations in the drought-struck desert. He creates menace by  leaving the poor with no water. In the run of this villain intro into the scene the director vaguely tries his level best to make a parody in the climax where the hero trades off water for homemade hair oil with the dreaded desert-don.

But the pace in which the movie takes places is not portrayed in an appealing way and lacks lustre in the drama as there is not much depth in the characters. It is quite tasteless for romantic ones who are looking out for much spice in the movie because the actors Abhay and Tannishtha rarely exchange any intimate scene and with a thrusting smooch sequence it hardly excites the audience.

In this carnival focused movie, the other factors rarely appears relevant to it though it entertains the audience with timely comical act that is quite lively about it. People may have the chance to fall for stunning background scenario, exquisitely portrayed by the cinematographer Michel Amathieu in a striking manner the virgin lands of Kutch and Jaisalmer.

 

The movie is of just average standard and is certainly not the type that keeps you locked to your seat.