When you walk into an Anurag Kashyap movie, you expect to see the true face of Human Nature, you expect to see brilliant long shots, and above all an airtight plot.
Sadly, this is not your average Anurag Kashyap movie by any stretch of imagination. This is not even close to his average.
Having said that, I Ioved the premise of this movie.
How would you like if I said that your house's choked pipeline coughing up cash everynight? Fairytale, ain't it? The Protagonist here is a bank cashier and apparently the only breadwinner of the house, while his husband is a lazy, complaining no-good.
Choked may on surface seem to be a title pointing at the Choked pipeline of protagonist's house, but there is a lot more to it as the story takes a spin when Prime Minister of India announces demonitization.
Upto this point, the movie holds it ground. However, it is the scenes post demonitization which could have been better. Also, it doesn't venture into the usual Kashyap territory, once this twist happens.. it surprisingly remains a formidable underdog story.. something which we surely don't expect from an AK movie.
Yet, there are flashes of brilliance in this tale. No one captures Bombay in lens better than Anurag Kashyap, period. He yet again manages to create a choked environment in the city quite efficiently. In terms of some characters too, his observations are worth noting, be it the pesky neighbors or the cash hungry goons or the lazy husband. The relationship between protagonist of the movie and her husband may not be the best you have seen on screen, but the naunces that Kashyap brings to the table are worth appreciating. You will see the familiar Anurag Kashyap, in a scene where both husband and wife use their son as a referee in an argument asking him to identify the liar while quarreling.
About the acting in this movie... Saiyami Kher puts in a decent performance. Her Sarita looks like an average Mumbaikar middle class woman. She is a South Indian who has acquired a maharashtrian twang and she kinds of nails it. Roshan Mathew as the lazy husband is a delight to watch although by that I mean you will surely dispise him atleast in some scene. But the show-stealer to me was Amruta Shubhash. What a performance! She gives a memorable performance as an intruding yet caring neighbour.
All and all as I said, definitely not the Anurag Kashyap, we have come to love over the years but surely a different version of him.
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