Bombay Summer
By Rachna Kapur
October 8, 2010
UM Rating: B-
“Bombay Summer”, the name conjures up images of paanwala’s, hundreds of rickshaws across busy streets full of bustling sounds and lights within sweltering heat. Written and directed by Joseph Mathew-Varghese, “Bombay Summer” is not your typical Bollywood movie full of song and dance sequences.
The movie, set in contemporary Mumbai, explores the delicate friendship/love triangle between three young people and its eventual disintegration in the face of betrayal over one summer in Mumbai.
The love triangle consists of Jaidev (Samrat Chakrabarti), a writer from an elite family; his girlfriend, Geeta (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a design director; and Madan (Jatin Goswami), a struggling artist who supplements his income by delivering illegal items such as drugs and alcohol. Madan shows his new friends Geeta and Jaidev a different side of Mumbai then they are used to, which includes access to an area where he creates Hindi film posters, a seaside village where he grew up and his residence.
The film follows these three people into a summer full of discovery, love and loss. The audience is led into lives of characters from different classes; wealthy, middle class, and poverty-stricken. The movie’s slow pace and lack of emotional ties with the characters makes it hard for the audience to empathize with the dangers facing the characters during the film’s climax.
“Bombay Summer” will be released in Big Cinema Theaters in New York, Los Angeles, New Jersey, San Jose, and Chicago beginning October 8, 2010.
“Bombay Summer”, the name conjures up images of paanwala’s, hundreds of rickshaws across busy streets full of bustling sounds and lights within sweltering heat. Written and directed by Joseph Mathew-Varghese, “Bombay Summer” is not your typical Bollywood movie full of song and dance sequences.
The movie, set in contemporary Mumbai, explores the delicate friendship/love triangle between three young people and its eventual disintegration in the face of betrayal over one summer in Mumbai.
The love triangle consists of Jaidev (Samrat Chakrabarti), a writer from an elite family; his girlfriend, Geeta (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a design director; and Madan (Jatin Goswami), a struggling artist who supplements his income by delivering illegal items such as drugs and alcohol. Madan shows his new friends Geeta and Jaidev a different side of Mumbai then they are used to, which includes access to an area where he creates Hindi film posters, a seaside village where he grew up and his residence.
The film follows these three people into a summer full of discovery, love and loss. The audience is led into lives of characters from different classes; wealthy, middle class, and poverty-stricken. The movie’s slow pace and lack of emotional ties with the characters makes it hard for the audience to empathize with the dangers facing the characters during the film’s climax.
“Bombay Summer” will be released in Big Cinema Theaters in New York, Los Angeles, New Jersey, San Jose, and Chicago beginning October 8, 2010.