| Welcome To
Sajjanpur Movie
Review |
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Music :
Shantanu
Moitra |
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Lyrics :
Swanand Kirkire, Ashok Mishra |
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Direction :
Shyam Benegal |
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Producer :
Ronnie
Screwvala |
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Leading Cast :
Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Rao, Divya
Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, |
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Rajeshwari Sachdeo, Ravi Kishan, Ila Arun |
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Sheyam Benegal offers the viewers to watch his
outing, ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’, which hit the
screens all over this Friday. Laced with simplicity,
the film is a rustic saga set in rural India. With a
powerful story to grab the audience, ‘Welcome to
Sajjanpur’ is a strapping product, which the
director narrates it very brilliantly on the
celluloid. |
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This offering of UTV Spot Boy (a production house
run by Ronnie Screwala of UTV Motion Pictures and
Zarina Mehta) pours the light onto the unseen Indian
villages where postmen and letters are still the
only mode of communication. The place called
Sajjanpur is what where power cuts appear normal and
the people like to travel on bicycles. The movie
drags you to a hamlet which is swathed with the
mixed characters: a letter writer, a power-hungry
goon, an eunuch, a short |
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tempered army man and his widowed daughter-in-law, a
compounder, a house wife whose husband, working in Mumbai,
hasn’t showed up since four years. These characters are not
new to us rather we have witnessed and seen them in our
lives.
The movie, though carries drama, nonetheless it does not get
your mind heavy. But it tries to relax you in full.
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is one of the few literate men of
the village. He likes to be a novelist, but makes a living
by writing-reading letters of all the illiterate villagers
sitting next to the post office. It is the art of writing
convincing letters that makes him popular with the village
bumpkins. Mahadev knows his abilities very well. So he
begins using his talent to manipulate people with amusing
and, at times, not such funny results. There emerge many
fascinating encounters between him and the villagers. Kamla
(Amrita Rao) is Mahadev’s childhood classmate. She is also
his crush. She is married. But Mahadev wants her back in his
life so he goes ahead to play his cards to do so. |
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The film loses some values also i.e. the movie
should have been without a song because the film
does not need to have a song into the narrative.
The screenplay and dialogues by Ashok Mishra attract
a lot. The music by Shantanou Moitra does not have
any scope in the movie and also is below average.
Sheyam Benegal delivers the goods on screen very
creatively. Full marks to him. Shreyas Talpade is
extremely brilliant |
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and enacts the job superbly by putting life in the
character. Amrita Rao appeals hugely. Yashpal Sharma, Ila
Arun, Divya Dutta and others register impacts too.
On the whole, ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’ raises your spirits. An
interesting carnival to watch. |
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Rating: 3.5/5 |
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