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Why this pick
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MOVIE2007 2h 17m IND
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film opens with a narrative about a nondescript town called Lakhot in Rajasthan, India. The narrator is Satyaveer Singh Randhawa (Abhay Deol), a down-on-his-luck public works engineer. He compares Lakhot – dry, desolate and despondent – to the general downturn in his own life. As he returns to his irritable and nagging wife Nimmi and their young son, we learn that Satyaveer has just been implicated in a small bribery scandal at work. Nimmi (Gul Panag) broods over how she wishes she had married a richer fellow. Satyaveer, an aspiring writer whose only novel Manorama sank without a trace, laments about how he had once wished to be famous but is now resigned to a banal and unremarkable existence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sarika
Manorama
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Chhaila
Brijendra Kala
Bihari Lal
Abhay Deol
Satyaveer
Vinay Pathak
Brij Mohan