by uniondocs
Jai Tank – Keep Making Movies
Kudos to Jai Tank for making a film like, Madholal Keep Walking. Hell with the system that held back its release in theatres for two years.
The problem on film making is that you cannot react instinctively & sensitively, the way Jay & his brilliant team has, on a subject that is fiery if served hot or otherwise has the making of an also-ran-coach in a moving train of events.
The Mumbai Train Blast was such an event.
Jai’s film is not just on the event but about the life & times of Mumbai. India’s maximum city is more often than not, portrayed in coarse image-strokes through the lives of its elite class in Bollywood films, but Madholal is a towering exception. Jai’s film is not a Bollywood movie in the first place, but a film made in Mumbai about common mumbaikars, in the language of Hindi.
So, it’s a vibrant &