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Traffic movie review
The new version of Hindi Malayalam film of 2011 of the same name treads the same path: How soon can solve traffic snarls crazy to transport the heart of a person with brain death to rescue a sinking patient? Will it be fast enough, beating rain, potholes, unexpected road bumps, and arrive on time?
While I was committed to the events in the original, which borrows from 'Amores Perros' to craft multiple threads with multiple characters and all converge at one point, I found myself tuning out on this because the freshness and sense of urgency is lost.
Even if you have not seen the first, which spun off remakes in Tamil and Kannada, he stutters. There is always going to be pathos and anguish of the imminent death of a young life. And Kitu Gidwani and Sachin Khedekar channel that emotion as well: how can you switch off the machine that keeps your child alive? Suppose he comes out of the coma? They are minimized, and are effective.
That decision is the most difficult to take, and these parents do to save another young life, finally succumbing to the grounds for another couple of desperate parents (Prosenjit Chatterjee and Divya Dutta). The task of transporting the heart, at breakneck speed, Pune- Mumbai is executed by a disgraced cop (Manoj Bajpayee), which is grateful for the opportunity to clear his name.
Also in the mix: a very unstable cardiac surgeon (Parambrata Chatterjee), the best friend of the young (Amol Parashar), both of which accompany the police, a police chief (Jimmy Shergill) approving the project after giving a conference on medical and plenty of others. They do their job, but this company, swollen saccharine music background and need not, has its moments, but remains generally strictly useful.
Luxury Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Parambrata Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Amol Parashar, Divya Dutta, Sachin Khedekar, Kitu Gidwani, Divya Dutta, Divya Unni
Director: Rajesh Pillai
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