Friendship makes the world go round. Review on Mitr

This millenium seems to be a season of offbeat movies. Hyderabad Blues, Rockford, Bollywood Calling,Monsoon Wedding and recently Mitr. What I like about these movies are that they are much more realistic and are slowly making place of their own with their mix of some mainstream cinema and some art cinema. And most importantly these movies relate with the audience. That is what I appreciated about the filmmaker. She has tried to connect with the audience and succeeded, I feel.

Believe me these movies are a welcome change after watching cliched movies like Mohabbatein, Yaadein, Mission Kashmir, AAAAGHHH !! Just thinking about these movies makes me shudder.

Concept

A friend is one who excepts you as you are and well does not judge you for what you do .. A friend in need is a friend indeed.... A friend I sone who shares and cares .... etc etc .. uou must have heard these words a thousand of times and believe in it too.. I do for sure .. But in real life as you proceed across the different phases of life, childhood, youth, adult, middle-age, old-age, etc the concept of friendship changes.

Thats what MITR is about in a nutshell. How would you convert relationship to friendship and how important it is for your survival.

About the movie

The movie is simple and the message is very clear cut without any frills. You have to think about the subtle nuances projected in the movie. Its everything to with what happens and may happened to many people and family . The best part of the movie is that one can enjoy the story even if it has its serious undertones and one can definitely relate to the movie. The concept is not far fetched and one may find oneself in a similar situation sometime. Specially for an Indian who has left the country and settled down in another country for business purpose.

The movie boasts of all women technical crew which is a first, I think. Revathy Menon who is a powerful actress in her own right has directed this movie and well she has done it very well.

The editing is well done. It is difficult to watch the movie if the editing is not done well. FOr example, Monsoon Wedding was very shabbily edited I feel. It was not comfortable watching the movie.

The music was composed by Bhavatharini Ilyaraaja, the esteemed Ilyaraja's daughter. The music was okay but it could be improved. According to me it blended well with the movie and for a change the music did not overpower the story.

The cinematography was also very pleasing to the eyes as they locations were well selected.

Shobhana, Naseer Abdullah and Preeti Vissa did a great job in portraying the emotional confusion and the flow of the story and the characters were pretty smooth. You will not get lost in the movie with certain scenes being there unnecessarily.

My Recommendation

Go and watch it if you liked movies like Hyderabad Blues, Rockford, Bollywood Calling and Monsoon wedding. This movie is something which many Bangloreans will relate too specially those having left the country to slog in the IT industry and earn more money and have a better life.

Its a movie where you dont have to think much and yet feel that you have enjoyed the movie. Its ideal for an evening date with your partner. :)

Avoid it if you have a penchant for chicks running haywire in spandex and hens running around trees and going WHAM BAM with lot of tomato sauce smeared on their face. :)