Cast: Shobhana, Irrfan Khan, Anupam Kher, Rajat Kapoor, Dhruv Piyush Panjnani
Director: Kaushik Roy
Producer: Kaushik Roy, Umang Pahwa
Music Director: Leslie Lewis
Lyricist: Mehboob
Cinematography: Barun Mukherji
Scriptwriter: Kaushik Roy
EXCLUSIVE REVIEW BY HANUMANT BHANSALI
Debutante Director Kaushik Roy has conceptualized and penned the story of Apna Asmaan. The film fails to connect with the pain derived from the alienated sufferers in the plot. The emotional connections looses the grip with the story and chooses an alternative path to narrate the tale.
The film starts like a documentary, bringing the reality of a serious issue. Likewise, in quest of feeding unbelieveable twists, the story becomes dimensionless.
The movie is set in the city of Mumbai and presents a modern insight on the young couple’s desires and aspirations. The head of the family (Irrfan Khan) earns his living by working in the plastics arena. His wife (Shobhana) is a classical dancer but she gives up her hobby after marriage.
Their only son (Dhruv) is characterized by impaired communication, excessive rigidity, and emotional detachment. His only connection with the world is through his paintings.
One day a drug works magically on the boy but with its own set of ill consequences. The ‘brain booster’ sequence follows up with the boy turning out to be a mathemagician. He starts developing negative instincts and goes overboard in whatever he does.
The climax sinks all the positive highpoints of the film as the reasoning shown is hard to believe and fails to attach with our conscience.
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