Anurag Basu’s ‘Metro… In Dino’ is an interesting and ambitious experiment, but it stays at a distance and we end up feeling very little

The film is about a number of characters in a number of relationship conflicts. Some are treated seriously, some are treated comically, and there’s definitely a vision – but there’s no emotional connection. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.

There are many characters and many relationship stories in Anurag Basu’s spiritual sequel to Life in a Metro – and there are two flavours of storytelling. The first type is where angst is treated like angst, like in the track with Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Shaikh, who play Akash and Shruti. They are married. He is a software developer, but he wants to be a musician. He says things like the guitar in his hand has been replaced by a keyboard. Can he not come home after work and pick up that guitar again? No. He is one of those all-or-nothing artistic types. It’s either being a full-time musician or being a full-time developer. At one point, Akash’s very, very understanding boss asks him to take a month off and see if this music thing works, and if it doesn’t he can come back. But Akash says that a safety net kills the drive, and this quickly kills any sympathy we may have for this character.

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