A road movie , in all essence is about finding yourself amidst the journey. Here , the lives of three people from different walks of life , with their own baggages are made to travel together and they take us on a journey through different cities with no vested purpose and connected storyline but any way delivers what it started out in the last 15 mins ,which feels superfluous.
Dulqer Salman in his Hindi debut plays Avinash, a dejected , unhappy IT employee with serious father issues. Bollywood would be surprised ro find a hero who doesn't flex his status whenever one gets a chance. Hope he lands good roles .
Irrfan Khan plays Shaukat,a Garage owner with a penchant to spew lines straight from a Sufi play or a Rumi couplet.Mithila Palkar who plays Tanya ,debuts as a college going milennial hip girl.
Avinash's father and Tanya's grandmother died on a pilgrimage tour and the company mixes their coffins.Now Avinash along with his friend Shaukat tries to retrieve his father's body .This is the pretext of the story and they take you on a journey from Bangalore to Ooty ,Kottayam and Cochin .
The character sketches are too shallow for us to be drawn to them and the film hurries scene by scene , changing locations relying only on DQ and Irfan's dialogues and underplays . And it doesn't suffice to hold our interest .
The writers must have dozed off on a bus while writing the story ! That can be the only explanation when a film with actors who can light up the screen with just their presence ends up as a fizzled attempt while taking the lively road trip route.
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