Saw Ferrari Ki Sawari (FKS) today. This time we waited till we could spot the symptoms of the film starting to detach itself from multiplexes: Perhaps it is the other way round, the multiplexes preparing to discard a film which has been milked to capacity. The symptoms are decreasing number of shows and shifting of these fewer shows to non-prime slots. The wait stood us in good stead. The hall was not too crowded and there were fewer distractions.
The film centers around a middle class Parasi family in Mumbai with a very mild tempered and highly principled bread-winner, an embittered grandfather and a very talented grandson. The talented grandson has justifiable ambitions but the family does not have the financial resources to match those ambitions. It is surprising to find the principled father stooping to stealing to somehow raise the requisite money. Though finally everything turns out to be well and provides relief to audiences on the tenterhooks. And, yes, before I forget, Sachin doesn't make an appearance in the film. His Ferrari does and is acknowledged in the credits.
Yet another interesting character is a loud and outspoken Punjabi lady who is in the business of event management and happens to gets some business from a local trigger-happy neta and his spoilt young son. She also uses her charm to gather all the good guys to help out the good guy - the doting father.
The script also beautifully portrays a remorselessly ambitious guys subscribing to the hook-or-the-crook principle, who never develops a sense of remorse and never grants concessions to the trampled victims even when doing so may be neither necessary nor gainful. It reinforces the theory that nobody ever deviates from his genetically coded character, except rarely and temporarily as the good Parasi fellow happened to do to fulfill his son's ambitions.
Not a bad film and definitely worth watching once.
The film centers around a middle class Parasi family in Mumbai with a very mild tempered and highly principled bread-winner, an embittered grandfather and a very talented grandson. The talented grandson has justifiable ambitions but the family does not have the financial resources to match those ambitions. It is surprising to find the principled father stooping to stealing to somehow raise the requisite money. Though finally everything turns out to be well and provides relief to audiences on the tenterhooks. And, yes, before I forget, Sachin doesn't make an appearance in the film. His Ferrari does and is acknowledged in the credits.
Yet another interesting character is a loud and outspoken Punjabi lady who is in the business of event management and happens to gets some business from a local trigger-happy neta and his spoilt young son. She also uses her charm to gather all the good guys to help out the good guy - the doting father.
The script also beautifully portrays a remorselessly ambitious guys subscribing to the hook-or-the-crook principle, who never develops a sense of remorse and never grants concessions to the trampled victims even when doing so may be neither necessary nor gainful. It reinforces the theory that nobody ever deviates from his genetically coded character, except rarely and temporarily as the good Parasi fellow happened to do to fulfill his son's ambitions.
Not a bad film and definitely worth watching once.
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