Metro--The Movie

A couple wed for 9-years and the hubby is cheating with his sis-in-law’s roomie on their wedding anniversary! The wifey torn between loyalty and love!

A 30-year old virgin who is still looking for Mr Right in a big, bad city!

A call-center girl who doubles as a call girl sleeping with her boss looking for love in the wrong place!

Another call-center guy who panders to fulfill his dad’s broken dreams of building a restaurant.

An old, widowed woman moving out of old-age home to move in with her long lost love.

Sounds familiar? Of course baby, you should be when you are living in a metro or even a cosmo! These are the characters from the huge hit of this season—Metro!

All the characters are intertwined (reminded me of the Hollywood flick—Crash), and there are no regular songs-and-dance that provide welcome relief to those yearning for a quick smoke or a leak. But of course there’s good music from Pritam and his band, who keep bursting into a song, amid serious dialogues, with their guitars and haggard looks (reminded me of the Hollywood flick—There’s something about Mary).

Metro is parallel cinema with Hollywood treatment (oh yeah! there are a few bold scenes). It’s a serious movie save for the much-anticipated appearance of Irrfan Khan, who undoubtedly steals the thunder, and leaves us in splits by acting the 38-year old but yet-to-settle-down guys who looks at the wrong places of the right gal ;-)

The ugly side to the movie: The dialogues are limp and fall flat. Costumes worn by the heroines were outdated and outrageous. The unwanted guest appearance of Pritam and his band every half hour.

But all this is gracefully saved by a wonderful couching cast with their laudable performances, an original (sad but true) story of a city life, and haunting music.

Does love deserve a second chance? Was the dialogue about yeh shehar hume jitna deta hai, who humse utna hi badle mein le leta hai true? It's worth finding out in Metro!