Life in a Metro

Life in a... Metro

PLOT: *****

PERFORMANCE: *****

MUSIC: *****

CINEMATOGRAPHY: *****

it features an ensemble cast of Dharmendra, ++Nafisa Ali++, Shilpa Shetty, Kay Kay Menon, Shiney Ahuja, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kangana Ranaut, and Sharman Joshi in lead roles.

Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja

Cool chics in a very cool flick

This redeems bollywood of its nefarious crimes of the last years or so as the movie crackles with wit and intelligence to pack in a quartet of modern day relationships in mumbais rain drenched metro lovingly shot in dinghy call centres, high rise flats and local trains and buses as the excellent cast is helmed by ANURAG BASU .

Its characters are inhabited by real people who err and commit adultery, lie and cheat yet remain optimistic at heart with its dark undertones giving way to a bright future as the multilayered plot evolves AND smashes all previous bollywood stereotypes with a hard hitting realistic but engrossing human drama

I was extremely delighted  to see nafeesa ali and dharamendra play an extremely dignified old couple reunited after 40 years while her nieces, shika [shilpa shetty]struggles with her loveless and shambling marriage with  kk menon who is cheating on her with his secretary**[kangna ]** since  2 years without her knowledge and the younger daughter shruti [konkona  ]who is husband hunting as a coy, bespectacled working girl in an  agency infested  with closeted homo...