This is where we also come to realize that Abhay Deol, as an actor, is criminally underrated in Bollywood. The audience is too occupied following the central character of Satyaveer and his small successes and big failures. The writing and direction serve to divert audience attention from the fact that the film is based in a small and austere town in Rajasthan.

The events unfold at a grittily sluggish pace, but all that seems to be intentional.

Intrigued and intimidated at the same time, Satyaveer decides to find out the truth and gets in too deep in a series of mysteries. Satyaveer finds that the woman visiting him is not Mrs Rathore but Manorama, an activist who then suddenly dies by suicide, further complicating the plot for Satyaveer. But in no time, the newly turned private detective finds himself in deep trouble. Initially shocked at the strange request, Satyaveer reluctantly agrees to the woman’s plea in return for a decent sum of money. Mrs Rathore, who claims to be a fan of Satyaveer’s novel, requests him to spy on her husband, who she believes is having an affair. Rathore (Sarika), the wife of the local irrigation minister and former Maharaja P. Things change overnight when he gets a strange visitor at home-a middle-aged woman who identifies herself as Mrs. Having been implicated and suspended on bribery charges, the desolate engineer is living a dull life in dry Lakhot in Rajasthan with his wife Nimmi (Gul Panag) and a young son. Satyaveer Singh Randhawa (Abhay Deol) is an aspiring writer whose debut novel Manorama has failed miserably. Released in 2007 when Bollywood was testing the waters for realistic films that broke industry stereotypes (“Swami,” “Khoya Khoya Chand”, “Dharm”), Manorama falls squarely in the list of experimental Bollywood productions that were ahead of their time and served to create benchmarks for the future. Not a commercial success back then, the film turns out to have a cult following, with most critics giving it positive reviews. Inspired by the controversial Roman Polanski 1974 neo-noir classic “Chinatown”, Manorama Six Feet Under is an Indian thriller co-written and directed by Navdeep Singh. But when I finally did go through the film that had been on ‘my list’ for a few weeks “ Manorama Six Feet Under” turned out to be the exact kind of movie for which I have Netflix installed. Also, I’m beginning to doubt the legitimacy of its ‘Trending now’ list which throws in random movies and series to get the audience to watch something they’d probably skip otherwise.Īnyway, Netflix recently threw a 2007 Indian film in my profile, a film I knew about but never watched as the name didn’t appeal to me. Netflix’s algorithm works rather strangely, its ‘new releases’ section sometimes featuring films that have been released almost a year ago on the OTT.

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