A fleeting look at life in Metro

It’s very important for every woman that her man is successful. If he isn’t things get jittery. It is one of a pre-requisite of a healthy relationship and some very intelligent women accept that. They are happier that way because it balances that relationship. Just like what Shilpa Shetty shared with Kay Kay in Metro. He doesn’t like it when she says she is capable of earning much more than him but she gave it all up because he wanted a baby. This was a reply to an allegation that she switches on the A/C and watches serials and stories of battered and tormented women the moment he goes to work.

Shilpa reacts but only when she is neglected, when she is drawn to a stranger but she says she feels like a slut just because she got carried away. There is no answer why women are made to feel gulity when the man does something worse and keeps his ego intact. The director in Metro prefers to show Shilpa opt for her repentant husband even when he questions her if the child belongs to him. But that’s the way women are in Metro or the slums…they want to keep the family intact.

Kay Kay plays an ordinary role of a boss in a call centre with an extraordinary edge. That’s why he is so convincing. There are very few actors who are complete and Kay Kay is one of them. Kangana springs a surprise and so does Shiney Ahuja, Irrfan Khan is awesome, he lends the much required comic relief. About Konkona Sen you would just want to hug her for her stellar work. But why is she always bumping into Gays, the last time we saw her shocked in Page 3. The best scenes were with Irrfan when she meets him and he tells her that she is the 29th in the list. The director should have avoided the Telugu cinema formula in the climax, it simply spoiled the show though people were laughing their guts out. Ninety percent of the film appeared to be a very honest attempt of a life in Metro but the director diluted everything.

Was it really necessary to show Dharmendra and Nafisa Ali in bed at the fag end of their lives? Nafisa never had an answer when Shilpa asked her if she’d behaved the same way if her husband were to be alive. One can show the purity of love in many different ways and this one didn’t go well with the audience, I did hear cheap comments when Dharmendra took a while to wake up the next morning. All in all, the bottomline is - despite the dirty games one plays to get promotions at work, despite cheating on the spouses, despite the long, hard journey of survival called life, there is an element of love left in every human and it is never to late to reach for it. That’s the life in Metro.