Sid Mallya

It seems that most of the reviews for this movie are from our NE brethren. In my opinion hence their mostly positive reviews are due to this relatibility of the plotline. I will try to review this movie as only an avid cinema watcher. The film wants to showcase instances of small and heavy-handed racism that people from NE face on an every day basis. It tries to do that by taking single day in the life of a group of friends trying to celebrate a wedding, and while doing this we are introduced to obstacles that may be completely foreign to most of us. It completely succeeds in this. Where it fails is character development, pacing and audience buy-in. Few of the important characters just do stuff that seem out of blue - so everything the movie told you about them seem false. At no point of the movie is any urgency felt - even though the characters mouth dialogues that convey ticking time. At no point did I as an viewer rooted for the characters to win or lose. Most of this is the fault of the editing .. and hence needed a better editor. However I'd still recommend this movie to people so that it can make way of better movies in the future with better representation of the people and stories from the NE.

When I watched the trailer, I felt like the background of the movie is the young couple's breakup, and how everyone comes to terms with it given their different understandings of the concept. The movie is more or less that, with the older couple (the boys parents) being ultimately correct. Everyone has acted well, and some of the characters have been thoughtfully designed to display "modern" values. Where I felt the movie was lacking, was in the dubbing. The audience is drawn into a movie due to cinematography and sound design. The DoP is great and the sound desiger is great too, but the dubbing is done so badly that sometimes you can't help but feel the actors were feeling different things when they were acting, and when they were dubbing. This could be a direction issue too. Overall, 3.5/5