CLUB 60
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
STORY
A glance at Manu bhai Shah (Raghubir Yadav),
and he appears peculiar in his outfit, crazy in his behavior, flamboyant in his
style, loud and funny in his conversation, and overbearing in his relations!
With colored hair, trimmed French beard, colorful t-shirts with slogans
(inappropriate for his age), GUCCI glares and i-pod plug-ins; when he enters
the tennis ground of the club he shouts in his inimitable style of gujrati
mixed marathi accent.."public..audience (sounding as odience)”. He moves
around in a red colored open jeep and thrives on wine, women and friends. He
lives life unapologetically. He and his gang which includes Dhillon
(Sharat saxena), Mansukhani (Satish shah), Zafar (Tinnu anand) and Sinha
(Vineet Kumar) are a group of irrepressible 'five' whose lives revolve around a
tennis court in a club called CLUB 60. They can drive anyone crazy by their
antics. They play, fight, abuse, bitch and can even put youngsters, half their
age, to shame when they talk of wine, women and sex.
Story of club 60 unfolds when Dr Tareek
sheikh (Farooque Sheikh), a neuro surgeon, suffering from acute depression
after the death of his only son, shifts to Mumbai from Pune with his wife Dr
Sayara (Sarika). A chance encounter of suave Dr Sheikh with the flamboyant,
talkative, funny and overbearing Manu bhai, who stays in the same building,
snowballs into Dr Sheik’s forced and reluctant entry into the club 60's gang of
five. But is Manu bhai and his gang just a chunk of some well-to-do crazy and
fun-loving people or is there something more to them under their colorful and
playful facade? We explore it along with Dr Sheikh as slowly and steadily his
reluctant participation in Manu bhai's 'gang of five', makes him fall in love
with ‘life’ again.
CRITIC VIEW.
‘CLUB 60’ is a slice of
life served with lots of agony and masti,a film, a script comes very rare to
touch your soul and gives you a inspiration to live what ever condition you are
or life creates.
Director Sanjay Tripathy gives us a 360 degree view of six friends each
having a grief of their past though living life with full positive approach.
Farooq Sheikh and
Sarika as a doctor couple give a very competent performance, reeling under a
depressive shock of loosing their only son in U.S city.
A stupendous performance
by Raghubir Yadav [Manubhai],as a importunate member of Club 60 ,a
crusader on a vengeance to fight all the odds which life has given him,he is
the only source to enthrall and pump cheerfulness to rest of his gang in ‘Club
60 ‘.
Supported by elaborate cast Dhillon
(Sharat saxena), Mansukhani (Satish shah), Zafar (Tinnu anand) and Sinha
(Vineet Kumar) do add gusto to this film.
Sanjay Tripathy undeniably deserves a
standing ovation for this attempt to give us back the humour and a taste of
life which some forgotten genius of 60’s and 70’s Bollywood Director had given.
Strictly recommended for audience who
are in search for a matured and no nonsense cinema.
Starring
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Farooq
Sheikh, Sarika, Raghubir Yadav, Satish Shah, Tinnu Anand, Sharat Saxena,
Vineet Kumar
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Directed By
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Sanjay
Tripathy
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Written By
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Sanjay
Tripathy
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Screenplay By
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Sanjay
Tripathy
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Produced By
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Kavee
Kumar, Vineet Yadav
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