I’ll get back to my favourite concept that I use when I watch movies. If you wanted to show SP College, and did not get permission to shoot there, call it something else! It’s fiction! It is probably the same building that was used in Munnabhai MBBS. SP College is along Tilak Road – and it could not have the amazing open space as depicted in the film. In the late-eighties and early nineties, I often went to Alka Talkies – I can assure you – it was nothing like what has been depicted in the movie. If you were 20-something in the 70’s, be ready for a shocker. The art director was probably born in the nineties.
I forgot to mention, this movie is set in the 70s apparently. The assumed prudery of the assumed audience is intact. Because Marathi Cinema needs to be shown as progressive, there’s a small scene of physical intimacy – do not get your hopes up – you don’t get to see anything. There’s some wishful slapstick comedy (which has been the survival mechanism of Marathi Cinema for a few years) that is extremely weak and in effective to buttress the plot. And of course, the bet works (with some implausible stupidity) and the protagonist is now conflicted between his real love and his wagered love. – the bet to entice a girl to fall in love. Some stupidity with a police officer and the revenge is to entangle the daughter of the police officer in a love game. Guy meets girl, falls in love, rest of his friends tease him. So, this movie is about a few college going kids, who become friends due to certain unintended circumstances and towards the end of the movie – it all becomes quite lopsided and queasy. Kudos to my niece! But, let us not talk about that for now, for this is a review of a movie.
Eventually, most of us will pay lip-service to social issues but this is the time when you can express yourself as much as you can.
When I was in SP College, the Mandal Commission had come out. I believe, that while you are in college, at least one such issue has to come up, where you can participate protest. So you are telling a story linked to my generous mother. You will of course forgive the current scandal – which I had nothing to do with – but my niece is affected and out on the streets, protesting and such which, is a prerogative of every college student in India and perhaps the world. (in the general sense ‘someone or something providing nourishment’): Latin, literally ‘generous mother’. SP College is my alma mater.Īlma mater: noun (one’s Alma Mater) the university, school, or college that one formerly attended. You have the undivided attention of this movie-goer. Just when I was relaxing, feeling good about Marathi Cinema doing quality production and tangentially effective story-telling, along comes Duniyadari (2013). In less than five-odd minutes of the start of the film, the protagonist is supposed to go to SP College.