Sunday 27 November 2016

The hollow dream of driving a Bombay taxi

Gaman (1978)

Directed by Muzaffar Ali this film stars Farooq Shaikh, Jalal Agha and Smita Patil. Unable to find work in his home village a man leaves his wife and mother behind to search for work in Bombay.

This is a story of the cycle of poverty and how even trading a rural life for an urban one offers no release. Slow moving at times the film still manages to cover a couple of years in the life of it's characters and the montage sections help indicate the passing of time. The direction and acting is decent, the songs used in the film were award winning but did not do much for me.


4/5

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