Raima Sen is excellent as the young lady who proves to be a vital piece in this never-ending jigsaw puzzle, as is Vinay Pathak who practically steals the show as the oily police-officer who always has the last word.
Abhay Deol plays the first-time detective with a mixture of eagerness and trepidation, while Gul Panag brings an uncomfortable believability to her role as Satyaveer Singh’s disappointed wife. Pretty much abandoning the key theme of Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay – the water scandal – around which the plot of Chinatown is essentially based, the writers of Manorama Six Feet Underconcentrate instead on character betrayals in their own script.įortunately for them, they’ve got an ensemble cast of enthusiastic actors who deliver sparkling performances that keep this film from coming apart. Much like Polanski’s Chinatown, this story too unfolds at a languid pace, but considering it’s an experimental format, a mostly unfamiliar genre to Hindi film audiences, a tighter narrative might have yielded better results. With every passing day, as he gets sucked into the case, Satyaveer Singh realizes that nothing is what it seems – not the wife, not the other woman, not even the nature of the offence he’s been hired to expose.įilled with more twists and turns than you’re likely to find on the Western Ghats, Manorama Six Feet Under is both intelligent and exciting, but it’s the film’s sluggish screenplay that betrays it eventually.
Set in a nondescript desert town in Rajasthan, the film stars Abhay Deol as Satyaveer Singh, a suspended government officer and struggling crime-novelist who’s hired by the wife of a local politician to play detective and spy on her cheating husband. Director Navdeep Singh, making no attempt to hide the fact that he’s borrowed his plot generously from Roman Polanski’s extraordinary film Chinatown, also borrows from that film its bleakness, its sense of impending doom. Cast: Abhay Deol, Gul Panag, Sarika, Raima Sen, Vinay Pathakįilm noir in the true sense of the word, Manorama Six Feet Under has a dark, simmering quality about it, and ten minutes into the story you know there’s more to it than meets the eye.
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