Regardless of being primarily based on an extremely heartwarming real-life story, the Anirban Bose directorial has baffling logic and shallow characterisation
For a movie primarily based on an extremely heartwarming real-life story, Aye Zindagi leaves you bitterly chilly. The thought is noble, and the message is laudable, however the therapy is unequivocally lopsided. The title reminds one of many evocative Suresh Wadkar quantity from Sadma, however the soulless narrative seldom primes you to embrace life.
Set in a interval when liver transplant in India was extraordinarily uncommon and the concept of organ donation had but to search out traction, the story is about survivor’s guilt. It reminds one of many saying, ‘Watch out what you want for’. When a younger Lucknow-based software program engineer Vinay Chawla (Satyajeet Dubey) develops extreme signs of cirrhosis, he rushes to a hospital in Hyderabad the place he comes throughout Revathi Rajan (Revathi) a grief counsellor whose job is to steer grieving households of the brain-dead sufferers to donate organs. How their lives intertwine varieties the remainder of the story.
Aye Zindagi
Director: Anirban Bose
Solid: Revathi, Satyajeet Dubey, Shrikant Verma
Runtime: 104 minutes
Storyline: Primarily based on a real story, Aye Zindagi follows the journey of a 26-year-old liver cirrhosis affected person who shares an unlikely bond with a hospital grief counsellor
The topic raises a variety of hope, however writer-director Anirban Bose fails to attract us into the narrative. The detailing and the emotional heft that the story calls for are sorely lacking. The incoherent script looks as if a piece in progress. Regardless of being primarily based on a real story, the intrinsic logic of all of it is baffling, and the characterisation feels laboured. For an informed skilled, Vinay is remarkably unaware of the issues of the illness and believes that he might keep on together with his job alongside costly therapy.
Even his brother (a health care provider!) doesn’t cease him and, in reality, places his personal profession on pause in order that his brother might go to workplace. The selections of Vinay’s bosses lack readability and his colleagues’ help looks as if an afterthought. When romance blooms between Vinay and nurse Manju (Mrinmayee Godbole seems the half) within the hospital, the proceedings get some pulse, but it surely hardly breaks the ennui.
A part of the issue is Satyajeet’s flat efficiency. The make-up artists make sure that he seems the half however we hardly get to learn the thoughts and coronary heart of the advanced character. No such points with Revathi although. Returning to Hindi cinema after some time, the seasoned actor dives deep into the character proper from the primary body. Anirban has not been variety to her as properly, because the writing hardly creates alternatives to allow us to see the warts and bruises brought on by her difficult work on her soul. However the actor makes up for the dearth of detailing along with her heartfelt act of an expert and mom of two kids. When Revathi’s eyes betray the stoic presence of a counsellor, one feels a lump within the throat. Nevertheless, her presence makes every thing round her really feel all of the extra plastic.
Aye Zindagi is at the moment operating in theatres