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Many critics have compared the Manorama with it. Now that I have watched this, I am more curious to see what Chinatown has in its store. Even Raima Sen was successful in fooling us and in fact, shocking us with her own unsaid truth. In Manorama Six Feet Under, Abhay Deol is ably supported by the solid ensemble of Gul Panang, Raima Sen, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Sarika.
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I mean how amazing is Abhay Deol, right? I hardly know a film in his filmography that are not choosy and undoubtedly off beat. A Bollywood version of that 1974 classic Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, Manorama Six Feet Under is a fine murder tale set in a small town in the arid deserts of Rajasthan. After Shanghai, this is anytime my second favorite Bollywood political thriller. I don’t know if I could have loved it so much. Personally, I am glad I did not watch this film back in 2007. That was just a bad joke.Īnyways, the narrative unfolds the dirty corruption in politics, the pitiable promises, masked personas and follow ups as intriguing as betrayal and incest. In need of money and excitement, the suspended writer becomes a detective and this is the story of the many pits he came across, some he managed to miss and others where he fell six feet under.
The film starts with an idea of the game of the Politics coming along, but who thought it would turn to be one of the masterpieces of Indian thriller!Ī wanna be crime writer fed up with his life and final realization of his failure comes across the solemn wife of a politician who wants proof about her husband’s extra-marital affairs. From screenplay through cinematography to editing.Only View (No Review) of Manorama Six Feet Underįrom the candid Abhay Deol to the perfectly named Brij Mohan, Vinay Pathak, the beautiful and soberly clad Sarika to the sarcastic, bitter and sweet Gul Panag – I am all swept over with the wonderful characterization. Though Raima Sen has a heavy Bengali accent not suitable for her character, everything else works out for this film.
MANORAMA SIX FEET UNDER CHINATOWN SERIES
Wonderfully directed- I really wonder why Navdeep Singh still does not have a page in Wikipedia! The film brilliantly eliminates the ‘She’s my sister and my daughter!’ element of Chinatown to suit Indian audiences. Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball.It premiered on the premium network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, spanning 63 episodes across five seasons.It depicts the lives of the Fisher family, who run a funeral home in Los Angeles, along with their friends and lovers. Manorama follows this formula religiously and makes magic out of it! I remember I loved a television series- Vyomkesh Bakshi, for the very same reason. Thirdly, every scene of Chinatown is shot with Jack Nicholson in it, i.e., the film is taken from the protagonist’s point of view- letting the viewers move along with the detective, and ultimately the detective outsmarting the viewers by cracking the case. I felt like watching a film by the Coen brothers. Secondly, the very film noir element of Chinatown is kept intact in Manorama. To match this, Director Navdeep Singh sets this film in a small town in Rajasthan. Firstly, it is set on the historical disputes over land and water rights of 1930′s Los Angeles, when it was merely a desert. Manoama is an artistic tribute to Chinatown. The very first five minutes of the film, with a very skillful long take, made me realize that this film is much above my expectations- in fact by the end of the film I realized that it is, probably one of the best film in the last 10 years!
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This film came as a pleasant surprise to me. But after watching Dev D, I suddenly found myself fascinated by Abhay Deol. When I first heard that Manorama- Six Feet Under is a remake of Polanski’s Chinatown, my interest in the film was gone. The film is a tribute to Roman Polanskis Chinatown and draws just an idea of the plot from this classic and is placed in a small deserted town in Rajasthan.