Saturday 20 Apr 2024

Honest Film review: MAICHO MOG

Melba Vas, A V Fernandes, S Haldankar (Cinema Mogi) | SEPTEMBER 18, 2021, 08:07 PM IST
Honest Film review: MAICHO MOG

Story

This is a Rocatho Gomes film. The film is a straight-line story of a young man getting sandwiched between his mother and the love of his life. The mother needs him badly, and then there is a call from his girlfriend that she wants him to be with her. What can the young man do? What takes priority for the young man and at what costs? The film story hits the audience hard on this.


Screenplay

The screenplay is straight to the point but the writer needs to get more imaginative in handling the issues and the sequences of the film. At times it defies logic. Which unworking young man who is fed and brought up by his mother will continue playing games on his mobile and not go to get medicines when his mother is coughing so badly just next to him and he does not even react to it? If he is so addicted to the game he plays on his mobile, then he will surely not get up and go immediately after receiving a call from his girlfriend.


Music

The film has no title song or any other song in the film. There is ample scope for songs, but the director didn’t feel it right to look into this aspect. The background score and effect is scarce, and good attention is not paid, as a result, the film witnesses drabness. 


Acting

The actors are natural in their performance. The artistes are relatively new, but they display great talent. The male lead is very convincing in his role.


Cinematography

The Cinematography and editing are average. No valuable use of camera lens is made. The film appears to be shot as enacted, more like a stage play. The cinematographer appears short of ideas with the different use of shots. 


Direction

Direction is the drawback of the film. The end, however, should have been better thought of and the director could have made the writer think from a different angle.



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