I wasn't getting the time to watch Dhobi Ghat but I did this week. Although it is a very small film about 90 minutes but I watched in two halves. The movie is written and directed by Kiran Rao. It was her first movie as a director.
The movie is about four characters belonging to different class and social strata. All of them live in Mumbai. The movie shows how they get into contact with each other. Aamir Khan plays the role of Arun - a very renowned painter who is a recluse. He keeps to himself and doesn't even make an appearance at his own exhibitions and show casing. I loved the way he was smoking. It was very natural. And the expressions he gave were brilliant.
Prateik on the other hand is a poor dhobi guy - Munna (Zohaib). He works as a dhobi in the day and as a rat at killer at night to earn extra money. But he likes to workout, dress up well and is a big fan of Salman Khan. He dreams to work in movies. He is a born artist and delivers dialogues in a flow. I loved his pet cat in the movie.
Monica Dogra plays the role of an American banker (Shai) who has come to Mumbai for sometime. She is a bit different and becomes friendly with Munna. He asks Munna to show her dhobi ghat and other places. She and Arun also have a few sparks but Arun got all agitated and blew things up by telling her he isn't the relationship sort of guy. But Shai has the hots for him. Although there is a class difference between Munna and her but she is actually genuinely nice and friendly with him. I didn't really like her much but she was an important part of the story.
The fourth character is played by Kriti Malhotra - another new comer. She plays the role of Yasmin. Arun finds a few tapes on which he saw Yasmin talking to her family who was elsewhere in India. She was a young girl who recently got married and was always alone. Arun got inspired by her natural way of expressing things. He felt her emotions, her pain, her loneliness and tried to understand her life through her tapes. Yasmin lived in the same flat in which Arun lived now. In the end, Arun discovered that the girl was so tired of her unhappy life and her unfaithful husband that she would hang herself. This was the best scene in which Aamir Khan really gave the best expressions ever. He seemed so helpless and was scared.
For Kiran Rao's first directorial work she did well. I liked the story and the script very much. Aamir and Prateik were great. In the girls I liked Kriti more. I actually liked the casting selection because everybody portrayed their class pretty well. I think most art movie fans would like it and people who look for movies with some depth could watch it. It is a clean movie and not at commercial.
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will not be a movie for the masses. A segment of the society will relate to it and understand it.
is Kiran Rao's directorial debut and has a very raw and new cast such as Prateik Babbar and two new comers - Monica Dogra and Kriti Malhotra. Aamir Khan is the only well known artist but he is not the main character in the film. It is a movie about four individuals with very different backgrounds and what happens when they all get in touch.
