Director: Shoojit Sircar
Writer: Somnath Dey, Shubendhu Bhattacharya
On 22nd May 1991, early in the morning I woke up by the sound of TV. News were on, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. Following days the newspaper and magazines were full off stories and gory pictures of the assassination. That was the first time I heard about Prabhakaran.
Madras Cafe focuses on the India's forgotten Sri Lankan chapter that lead to assassination. Due to unrest in the Island Indian PM decides to intervene and sends peace keeping forces to Lanka and orders to disarm Prabhakaran (Bhaskaran in movie) at any cost. India fails, PM has to resign.
After few months elections are announced and it is clear that ex-PM will come back to power. Bhaskaran aware of threat, plans to terminate the ex-PM. Vikram an intelligence officer who unearths this conspiracy tries to save ex-PM but in vain.
Madras Cafe is a movie Indians are not used to. A political thriller, realistic, songless, no love angle, no melodrama, intelligent, super fast. It has all ingredients that will make sure that it won't reach the magical heavenly 100 crore mark.
It was sad to see 75% of the theater empty. If we had Salman or Sharukh I am sure there would have been 2-3 songs with a Lankan heroine and hero with his arms stretched standing on a Lankan mountain which would have looked like Switzerland. Not only that hero would have convinced Bhaskaran to surrender and the assassination would have been thwarted.
God knows when we will start appreciating good films and stop watching the same masala brainless so called entertainers.
It is good to see such a movie coming out of India.
Writer: Somnath Dey, Shubendhu Bhattacharya
On 22nd May 1991, early in the morning I woke up by the sound of TV. News were on, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated. Following days the newspaper and magazines were full off stories and gory pictures of the assassination. That was the first time I heard about Prabhakaran.
Madras Cafe focuses on the India's forgotten Sri Lankan chapter that lead to assassination. Due to unrest in the Island Indian PM decides to intervene and sends peace keeping forces to Lanka and orders to disarm Prabhakaran (Bhaskaran in movie) at any cost. India fails, PM has to resign.
After few months elections are announced and it is clear that ex-PM will come back to power. Bhaskaran aware of threat, plans to terminate the ex-PM. Vikram an intelligence officer who unearths this conspiracy tries to save ex-PM but in vain.
Madras Cafe is a movie Indians are not used to. A political thriller, realistic, songless, no love angle, no melodrama, intelligent, super fast. It has all ingredients that will make sure that it won't reach the magical heavenly 100 crore mark.
It was sad to see 75% of the theater empty. If we had Salman or Sharukh I am sure there would have been 2-3 songs with a Lankan heroine and hero with his arms stretched standing on a Lankan mountain which would have looked like Switzerland. Not only that hero would have convinced Bhaskaran to surrender and the assassination would have been thwarted.
God knows when we will start appreciating good films and stop watching the same masala brainless so called entertainers.
It is good to see such a movie coming out of India.
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