Inspired from Roman Polanski's movie 'Chinatown', 'Manorama Six Feet Under' is a film for those who like unconventional cinema. Vinay Pathak, playing a cop, doesn't have ample footage but he gets to mouth some well-written lines. Raima Sen, as the other woman in SV's life, is good. Gul Panag stands in equal stead, playing his bickering, nagging wife. More than acting, Abhay believes in spontaneous performance. Abhay Deol's natural and underplayed portrayal of SV lends a lot of credibility to the character. And complementing the director's and cinematographer's commendable job are performances by the actors.
Verbally sparse, intelligent, and visually striking, the movie holds your interest despite its languid pace. Beginning on a cogent note, the movie veers onto a somewhat tangled route, as the focus flits from one subplot to another. The plot of 'Manorama Six Feet Under' takes a winding path instead of going linear. And there is a strong sense of impending doom throughout the film's narrative. Even as it pays homage to noir genre, the movie stays close to reality. The fact is that 'Manorama' leaves many threads of the story open-ended.
People who are used to the escapist Bollywood fare may find the movie too slow or confusing. The movie is a promising debut by director Navdeep Singh. rAjOo Six Feet Under is an intriguing, complex and offbeat thriller set in a sleepy small town of Rajasthan. Anil Poddar, compounded all the more by the sudden death of Manorama and the disappearance of an orphan named Deepti. Satyaveer accepts this offer little knowing that he will soon be thrust into a web of lies and deceit, which will not only get him in the bad books of Rathore, assaulted by his goons, but also implicate him in the murder of two lovers, Sameera, and Dr. Now out of a job, he is approached by Manorama Rathore, the wife of the Irrigation Minister, to collect evidence that her husband is having an extra-marital affair for a fee of Twenty thousand rupees. To make matters worse he accepts a motorbike from Seema Constructions as a bribe, is apprehended, and suspended pending an inquiry. So dismayed was he with this that he decided to not even keep a copy for his private library.
Satyeveer also authored a fictional novel 'Manorama' that sold only about 200 copies. Rathore, making tall promises of diverting water from Haryana and Punjab via a canal that is being constructed on a controversial site. The region faces drought and extreme temperatures, with the local Irrigation Minister, P.P. Rajasthan-based Satyaveer Singh Randhawa works as a Junior Engineer with Lahkot Municipality's Public Works Department and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Nimmi, and son, Raju.
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