Traffic Signal- Stop, look but don proceed [to the theatre].

Traffic Signal- Stop, look but don proceed [to the theatre].

Storyline(damn hard to identify one):
A direct insight into how traffic signals actually are huge markets where large money transactions define and differentiate the lives of hundreds of destitutes across a city like Mumbai.
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When a movie seems realistic, its greatly appreciated. However, when it shows reality to an extent where u suddenly wonder whether u r in a theatre at all, it fails to create an impact on its audience cos they don get the feel of even havin watched a movie when it ends. Thats Traffic Signal......

Madhur Bhandarkar's marvellous attempt in making the film seem so natural must be applauded but did he go too far ? Exposing in a film how each one of us become a customer at different traffic signals and explaining the business philosophy behind this highly organised and structured market is defintely not an easy job. The movie literally teleports the life of slums to the screen so vivdly. The film gives an idea of how these slums look when seen thro' a businessman's eyes.
BUT
An attempt to express the innermost feelings of prostitues and their genuine affairs though a nice opportunity was wasted I feel. The two three short side stories about a supposedly cruel female using alimony from divorce to get rich, who later gets "free" enuf to ve sex with a guy from the streets and an old man who tries his best to ve pleasure in its cheapest form by paying alms for rubbing his hands over a poor woman coming to his car door seem totally irrelevant. The former was supposed to be humorous and the latter emotional. I feel both were ridiculously unnecessary.
The movie is also a perfect example of how its tough to define a climax for a film stuffed ONLY with day to day happenings. Never would u ve seen a climax so pathetically handled. When u finally sit straight, exercise ur back, rub ur eyes and get all anxious to know what might happen next, the movie actually ends !!!

It sumtimes might make u wonder as to how many such movies u saw as u jus drove to the theatre.

Being a MT in a reputed firm (read my first blog) I was so much able to identify myself with the hero who looks as good(or bad) as I (or u) do, who reports to a senior manager(chota dadha) who inturn reports to a CEO(underworld don) who runs a business with a mission statement suggesting atleast 18 crore has to be collected from all traffic signals across the city. Man !! evn DDY doesn earn that much in an year :-(


When you walk out of the theatre u might feel as if all along u were just driving and stoppin at different traffic signals.......

BottomLine: A must see for MBA aspirants and entreprenuers ;-) !!