Mumbai Meri Jaan – 4/5

Sorry for a late review of this movie. I saw this movie last week but finally got some time to sit and give my 50 cents on the movie. I couldn’t miss writing a review for this one, for this is the story of the city I fell in love with two years back.

Mumbai Meri Jaan as the title suggests presents spirit of Mumbai in true sense. The plot of the movie is on mentality and life of people belonging to different segments of society in Mumbai city pre and post 11th July, 2006 local train serial bomb blasts.

It is a simple movie which makes strong argument about lot of issues in the Indian society. Movie deals with some major issues like corruption, life security, media over hype and religious and class problems beautifully. The best part of the movie is the message of harmony and self realization it sends to the audience. The director has done a brilliant job at story telling.

You will get to see brilliant performances from all the actors in the movie. Main characters in the movie are Paresh Rawal (Tukkaram Patil) a retiring policeman, Irfan Khan (Thomas) a South Indian chaiwala, Kay Kay Menon (Suresh) an unsuccessful computer dealer, R Madhavan (Nikhil Agarwal) a well to do employee of multinational firm, Soha Ali Khan (Rupali Joshi) a news channel reporter and Vijay Maurya (Sunil Kadam) a policeman.

There are multiple scenes in the movie which will have strong impact on you. To mention a few, the scene with Paresh Rawal having a post lunch conversation with Vijay Maurya about incapability of the police to support law and justice in all conditions, shooting of television report on life of Soha Ali Khan after death of her fiancé in local train bomb blasts, retirement speech by Paresh Rawal, insult of Irfan Khan at a perfume store in the Mall, Paresh Rawal’s advice to KK Menon in the police van and the minute silence maintained as a tribute to victims of local bomb blast will leave you thinking for good.

A must watch movie for everyone. You will definite have something positive to take back from the movie.