Cast: Abhay Deol, Raima Sen, Gul Panag, Sarika, Vinay Pathak, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Director: Navdeep Singh
Producer: Ketan Maroo
Music Director: Jayesh Gandhi, Raiomond Mirza
Lyricist: Surendra Mishra, Jayesh Gandhi, Manoj Tapadia, Irfan Siddique, Rowdy
Cinematography : Arvind Kannabiran
Screenplay: Navdeep Singh, Devika Bhagat
Editor: Jabeen Merchant
EXCLUSIVE REVIEW BY HANUMANT BHANSALI
Without emphasizing much on the quality of cinema, it is a pain to see film makers losing their vision towards the script at the very root level. Manorama Six Feet Under is a tame product from director Navdeep Singh.
Claiming itself to be a thriller, Manorama never actually manages to hold your attention. The film is like a sunken ship, right from the beginning till the end. Nothing other than a platter of striking visuals will hold your attention.
Coming to the plot, the film narrates the story of a small town amateur detective who gets trapped in a mesh of lies, deceit and murder.
SV (Abhay Deol) is a government engineer by profession, but by heart he lives the life of a detective. His interests lie in writing detective fiction. His maiden attempt ‘Manorama’ fails, pertaining him to restrict his hobby to second grade magazines.
Oppurtunity knocks at SV’s door as the wife (Sarika) of a powerful politician offers him a chance to spy on her husband. SV’s grabs the lucrative offer to play a detective in the real world. He visions his dream of acquiring name and fame through his spyful stint.
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Well the review for Manorama is a bit out of odds perhaps author was really not in a mood to watch a thriller which again might not be his favorite genere of movies. As a thriller movie buff i enjoyed Manorama 6 feet under. There was a suspense till the end. Story line which dear author finds childish was pretty natural and original. Direction was non dramatic (not bollywoodish overdramatization)more earthy perhaps taken out of hindi novels. I do agree Sarika was underused as a an actor and has very limited screen time, which actually lends the hopelessness to the Abhay Deols venture , a thing which i have sourfully missed in all the indian mystery movies which take you to magical flashbacks .In my diaries Manorama will have 3 and half rating and this review a poor 1 star.Some other day perhaps the author might have liked the movie .
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The reviewer is a bad movie critic. His concept of cinema looks to be only limited to masala bollywood flicks with supernatural action scenes, Manorama is a truely a very good film, specially its script is a very well written one. The story was by no means a childish rather it was a very well written one, which made a real good sense at the end. I believe the reviewer is used to yash raj flicks and does not understand a quality script. I mean it was a quality script because it looked closed to reality and before the last 10 minutes also no one can predict the end. my rating for movie is 4/5 (where 5 is the best) and for Hanumant Bhansali 0/5 ( 0 is worst, and this is what his review is).