‘Manorama Six Feet Under’ (MSFU) is a detective story that is developed around the hero, Satya Veer (Abhay Deol) who has got a life-long ambition to write detective stories. Though engineer by profession, he wanted to build his life on detective fiction. Unfortunately he could not make his way into detective line.
Rating: 3/5
Raima Sen in Manorama Six Feet Under
The real story of MSFU starts when our hero was approached by Manorama (Sarika), who is the wife of a prominent politician, for a very important job. She senses the detective in Satya and assigns him the task of spying her husband for some reasons. As the story progresses, the story takes a lot of deviation from the earlier plot. Satya senses something mysterious about the woman. She is not the lady who she had claimed to be at first. To add more suspense to the story, Manorama gets killed mysteriously. Now Satya changes his direction towards the investigation on Manorama’s murder. Things get really heated up. There are a lot of circumstances that lead to the answers of the questions, ‘who’, ‘why’, etc. It is the height of suspense that is turned on throughout the movie.
Manorama Sex Feet Under
Manorama Six Feet Under is the debut movie of director Navdeep Singh. Singh not only concentrated on the mysterious plot of this movie, but also worked well in the cinematographic aspects of the movie in order to give it a better effect. Hats off to Arvind Kannabiran, who created breath-taking frames to add the great visual impact to the thriller story.
Not just the cinematography, but all the factors, including the dialogue, acting, etc., together make the movie more appealing to the crime-thriller fans in the theatre. The actors, mainly Abhay Deol and Sarika, put forth a natural performance which is very essential for a movie like MSFU. Though the role played by Sarika is very brief, she tried to give all the shots the best of her ability and thus made her appearance more powerful and significant for the story line. The only question is about Gul Panag, who in fact did not have a contributory role in this movie.
Gul Panag and Abhay Deol in Manorama Six Feet Under
The absence of a full-fledged song is what is really missing in this movie. However, as happened with some of the earlier suspense thrillers, a song would rather create an embarrassing tone to the developing suspense drama. However, the movie has got two different title tracks. To complement the scenes, attractive background music is added throughout the movie.
The title ‘Manorama Six Feet Under’ is aptly given to imply the story base, i.e., the murder of Manorama and her burial. The success of a suspense thriller depends on how much suspense it can add in the movie and then how successfully they can be traced out towards the end. In this regard, we can consider MSFU as a box-office hit as it makes you hold your breath for many times during the movie. When the mystery unwinds, you come to know that all your assumptions on the questions, ‘who’ and ‘why’ were wrong. Though you are shaken a bit, you will enjoy it very well.
Rating: 3/5
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