It isn't going to be any task though for Abhay who goes about clicking low resolution, ordinary quality pictures with his Rs. His wife, who still holds grudges of 'you should have used a condom on the first night', does have her doubts about his detective skills but stands by him like any subsimissive woman.
His job? Get an account of his escapades. 20000 when he gets an offer of his boring lifetime to spy on Mr. Some homage here!Īs a suspended 'I am open to bribes' Government Engineer, Abhay Deol's aspirations to rise above the 'Manohar Kahaniyaan' bracket writer are fulfilled for a mere Rs. So much so that the character played by Abhay Deol even has his pet name as Surendar Mohan. Now get set to witness a tale that picks up it's thread from railway station book stalls where cheesy novels by writers such as Surendra Mohan Pathak, Kumar, Vikrant etc. There has been homage to Shakespearean and other great writers in some of the films released this decade. Of course there are some rough edges but that can be pardoned for the sheer will power and committment on Navdeep's part to say "Let me tell a different story in a different way".Īnd different MANORAMA SIX FEET UNDER indeed is! Otherwise in how many movies do you see a mainstream hero getting into the kind of mould (from characterisation perspective) which actors of the likes of Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor used to in late 80s when New Wave/New Age cinema showed it's unfamiliar face for the first time. And all being quite intelligently handled by writer-director Navdeep Singh who certainly has taken his first step in the right direction. The question looming large? Manorama Kaun Hai? And is it a human being we are talking about? Or is it an object? Or worse, is it something non existant? And by the way, what is this entire theory of 'Six Feet Under'? This year, things turn a little serious, in fact quite serious, in MANORAMA SIX FEET UNDER. Anthony Kaun Hai? Oops.Manorama Kaun Hai? Last year, a tale of mistaken identity, crime and redemption was told in a light hearted manner in Sanjay Dutt - Arshad Warsi starrer ANTHONY KAUN HAI.