MADRAS CAFÉ SERVES A BITTER COFFEE

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Where in the world have all those jolly and laconic film critics gone?  I had immense expectations, when I read all the reviews about Madras Cafe – rare treat, crisp editing, wonderful acting by John Abraham, Bollywood’s answer to “Tears of the sun” and “Blood Diamond”. These were rather hollow - as I was to find out later - comments by numerous critics of the leading news houses throughout the country.

Madras cafe thrives to be in the genre of various Hollywood blockbusters, but sadly fails in getting there. The movie depicts the genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils, rise of the Tamil Elam; the lives of innocent civilians caught up in the cross fire, and all along you have the underlying plot of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. The movie heavily borrows from “Tears of Sun” and “Blood Diamond” and to add the feminine factor, a so called journalist and an actress who speaks back in English like an old gramophone record is thrown in, rather as an afterthought, in the cast. The movie in reality is nothing but a failed attempt to ape much better equipped and qualified English movies.

Most of the scenes have two helicopters flying aimlessly around, and one could sense the same aimlessness in director’s purpose. John plays a bereaved husband, and tries every bit to be in the class of Bruce Willis or even a Di Caprio. All that John can manage is a craned neck and some hefty chump of meat and muscles here and there. RAW heavyweight, Siddarth Basu wants to act tough, concise and pours coffee, presumably black, but in reality sweet filter every time he has important decisions to make.

Nothing registers from the movie, but the listless flying of helicopters and this rudderless listing characterizes the entire parade.


Verdict:  Only Worth watching to give the director a thumbs-up for attempting a brave theme, considering the fact that most of the interested parties do not have a good history of being logical and reasonable, and also to remind Sharooq and his Chennai Express circus that people will still accept a failed attempt at bravado.
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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