‘Metro … in dino’ movie review: Anurag Basu dissects modern love with a poetic flourish

In a hurry Metro … in dino, A middle -aged Monty Sisodia (Pankaj Tripathi), desperate to suppress the refresh button in his married life, blur in a sentence infertility, infidelity, and morality in a sentence, blur his Nagari wife, Kajol (Konakona Sen Sharma), which seems to be caught between today’s ideals and amidst the values ​​of pasture. In a comic flourishing, director Anurag Basu revealed what his polymorphic keeps, which invests us for about three hours.

When a child was born Life in a metro Kill theaters should now be 18. Not much has changed in relationships, apart from the fact that we now have a teenager in the film who is struggling with her sexuality, and she is not in any hurry. Meanwhile, technology and therapy have reduced the issues of individualist generation and the concerns of the bus missing as they preferred their family on their own. Our films often tilt in a way or the other. Critics bracked him progressive, retrograde or somewhere in the middle. Anurag and his co-writer once again break the bracket and Jestson Elgorithm screenplay to make people’s heart-warming story to fall with love and fall out. There are echoes of origin, but Metro … in dino He has his own heart.

Initially, the film breaks the fourth wall a little bit, which addresses us directly, but it gradually settles into a good rhythm with unexpected beats. You can feel the zafire of romance through all, but we know how Anurag does the healing wounds of his audience so slowly. You can find reflection in their characters and cinematic conditions because they express the eternal chaos created by Cupid and corporate culture in today’s language. This is both disturbing and investigation, yet catheral and uplift. Many times, all in a moment.

There are routes in the film that feel stretched or slightly adopted, but they rarely feel wrong. This is interesting because the five strands in the Hyperlink film detect the acts we planted, we show the relationship to play the ball. Anurag’s skills are first vested in making masks of all of us, and the moment we become comfortable in the film’s skin starts peeling them, layer from layer. He tries not to label someone as a villain. In its triangles, no angle feels small, and when they become indispensable in the journey, he is self-aware of smoothing Clich.

When Kajol really drives in a clinch in Goa, a utility bag comes from somewhere and covers her face. When Kiss (Sara Ali Khan) descends in a foundation instead of era, we find that the difference between the right and wrong option is sometimes minimal. The work of life in the film resonates at both an emotional and artistic levels, a rare combination these days. Like a magic trick, the narrative transitions smoothly from a light moment, which goes to a deep depth without taking the audience out every moment. In this sense, it is not just a spiritual successor Life in a metro; It also takes the seal of Anurag Barfi, Jagga JasosAnd Ludo In terms of storytelling and technical talent. With each passing film, the drag is being minimized, and the artifice is decreasing. Credit also goes to editor Bodditya Banerjee to keep infections between the complex yet smooth. The characters struggle with love, loss and redemption in various ways, yet they feel authentic and reliable.

In hyperlink films, it is important to install the character quickly, making the choice of actors all more important. Aditya Roy Kapoor and Sara make the lust/ lost illusion of today’s generation reliable. Both psychological cracks and social strangeness expresses from under the veneer of cockey confidence. This is the spark between them that ignites the mainstream engine. Then, Fatima Sana Sheikh and Ali Fazal gear press to make decisions between the career and the family. Whereas Ali feels that he has been cast to fulfill the unrealistic ambition of his character 3 IdiotsUnderated Fatima Excel in a complex role, her Shruti reminds me of her performance Modern love Mumbai.

Tripathi and Sen Sharma inspire us to introspect on the climax of vibrancy that we often face social media. It is applied as light-hearted, but the strand has a lot of weight. Tripathi originally slipped into Irfan’s shoes, which is burnt Metro In 2007, and Sen Sharma once again portrayed a woman torn between it and her. In the older generation, Nina Gupta, as Shibani, a uniform resides in a slightly more confident place. Along with Anupam Kher, she makes a portrait of college friends separated by Destiny. It gets clown because Anurag comes from an old school when the melodrama was not a curse in the script writing. He breaks the huts of practical humor and his writings and the prediction with lilts in Camerock. One moment, the film nourishes young roots with a meta joke on human photosynthesis, and on the other, it calms the frightening nerves with the details of the contract of Momin’s lovebirds, ‘Woh jo hum mein tum mein qarra tha’.

In the universe of Anurag, songs are not only of decorative value. They are integral parts of storytelling. From qawwali strains to growing metals, Pritam has prepared a complete music experience, in which the poetry of Kesar Jafri and Nilesh Mishra is creating a rich emotional tapestry. Jaffery “Tamhare Shehar’s weather is very happy” Takes the form of an urban gathagit, Thanks to Anurag’s eye for expansion. Look at it with someone you love. See it for someone for whom you pine.

Metro … Dino is currently running in theaters.

Published – July 04, 2025 05:20 PM IST