Club 60

A very nice movie. Movies are basically a medium of entertainment. Everything apart from entertainment is secondary. However the way entertainment is blended with any message or a thought makes the movie good or average. Manubhai is the centre of this movie. He represents an ideal way of living life. He epitomizes life in itself. He is naughty, he is sleazy, he is friendly, he is respectful, he is understanding, he is caring, he is rude, he is funny. All the other characters, who represent majority of the people around us, including oneself, revolve around him in just the same way as we try to follow our own life. We try to please it sometimes, we curse it sometimes. We hate it one time and then we just adore it the next time. Never do we realize what it really wants or how do we react to it. The Movie through the character of Manubhai exactly tries to give us some clues about handling that dilemma in our own life. 'Zindagi se ehsaan mat le, Zindagi pe ehsaan kar'. This basic thought is so simply put yet in such a beautiful and most importantly in such an entertaining way. The story identifies a few characters as the most important, as it should be, but the director makes sure every element of the movie is necessary. Hence, everyone shines through. Personally, of many good movies in the last 2-3 decades, I found this movie to be the closest to Hrishikesh Mukherjee style of movie making. Why the movie did not collect much money on the box office is something I don't understand, but then the movies that make money are the most stupidest kind ones. So in that sense it is right, but the producer should get back his money with some profit otherwise we wont be able to see these type of classics. The type of reality shows, happening on the idiot box, that are getting viewer ship explains the deteriorating choice of the general public and this movie is just a 'drop in the ocean' in cleansing the overall muddy entertainment spread everywhere. I did miss the movie when it got released and neither did I notice it anytime in any DVD store. I got to know about it and also watched the movie on a Free but legally available online streaming service. If anyone wants to watch after reading the review, please make sure you do the same. That is all we as responsible audience can do to support such creative activities.

This is a beautiful movie and I agree such movies are rarely made. This is a film where the audience connects with the script throughout and celebrates it in all possible ways. The Late Farooque Shaikh, Sarika, Raghuvir Tadav, Vineet Kumar, Satish Shah, Tinnu Anand are just brilliant, as if, it was really their own story. The casting has been top notch and each one of the lot took out their best. Although, I would say Sharat Saxena has not done complete justice playing G.S. Dhillon. Else, the movie is just awesome. I loved "Beer Baba" in the movie. Me and my wife have seen this movie multiple times and it still seems new to us every time we watch it.

This movie is surely for ages and I wish Bollywood should care to make such movies in the future as well.

No wonder why the film's not a hit among cinema-goers. It doesn't have cheap item songs, flesh show or silly romance or even ridiculous dialog delivery. A critic's love, Club 60 is a very fine drama about life, old age & the search for happiness.

It is a real treat to watch yesteryear actors to come back, and play so genuinely, especially Farooque Sheikh. The whole cast is splendid, but I felt Raghuvir Yadav crossed the line with his antics. The plot is very calm focusing on the lives of 60 something people who meet each other at a club. Raghuvir Yadab brings them together & helps them find happiness in small things of life. Never have I seen in months in Bollywood such beautiful, deep dialogs about the mystery of life and never have I watched characters mourning death so authentically. Sarika is still so svelte!

With calm music and minuscule obscene dialogs here & there, Club 60 can only be lauded using superlatives. The editing & direction could've been better, cinematography is fine.

BOTTOM LINE: This is for everyone, teenagers to adults for it focuses on few values & virtues & explains it in a beautiful manner. Recommended!

Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES

Profanity: No | Vulgarity: Mediocre | Violence/Gore/Sex/Porn: No | Smoking/Alcohol: Strong | Drugs: No

The story follows a group of 60+ friends. Each one going through their own struggles and sharing some fun time. Really enjoyed the movie after a long time without unnecessary songs and dancing.

Many may not have heard of a Hindi film called Club 60, but it is an entertaining & thoughtful film that teaches you an important "lifestyle skill" – Life a fulfilling life even if you are on the wrong side of 60.

But for this you've to come out of your "lifestyle well" in which you've been living like a "frog" for years and decades. Sounds familiar, isn't? I am sure you will agree that most of us live like this "frog" in the "well" of our own miseries, despair, routine habits, and limited recreational activities.

This is precisely the kind of life that neurosurgeon, Dr Tariq Sheikh (Farooq Sheikh) and his wife Dr Saira (Sarika) were living after the death of their only son. Things started changing when they came in contact with a funny, colourful and melodramatic character, Manubhai (Raghubir Yadav).

It is he who introduced them to Club 60 consisting of retired – but jovial – members (Satish Shah, Tinnu Anand, Sharat Saxena & Vineet Kumar).

HAPPY POINTS about CLUB 60

1 - Club 60 is a simple film - but one which acts as a Mirror to anyone over 60 or someone living a boring/depressive life. It is not only entertaining (it has nice comedy in it) but also gives you an important lesson in life that will touch your mind and heart.

The film is emotional, thought-provoking and will surely make you rethink about your own (routine) life. It will make you wonder if at all there is any enjoyments and fulfilment in your own life.

By the way, I saw this film on Star Gold Select. And it is the only TV channel in which you are most likely to see the film again in future.

2 – It has dialogues which are very touching, thoughtful and also real. It is as if it's YOU who is being talked to. It is as if it's YOUR life which is getting "exposed".

The MOST touching dialogue was the one between Sarika and Farooq Sheikh (who has sadly passed away) in the balcony of their flat. The way Sarika emotionally implored Farooq to get out of the rut he is in…to escape from the depression he is in, will bring tears to your eyes. It may even make you feel "self-conscious" depending on the situation in your life.

Manubhai will teach you - "Zindagi se ehsaan mat le, Zindagi pe ehsaan kar". This from Manubhai who himself had a very, very sad past.

Tell you what, it is only in rare Indian films that you will get to see such "real" dialogues – and without any melodrama surrounding it.

3 – There are many hilarious moments presented in a normal manner – without any melodrama.

The best one for me is when semi-naked Sharat Saxena calls Raghubir Yadav (the most hyperactive all characters) from a hotel and tells him what a prostitute did to him after he slept with her. After listening, Raghubir burst into a kind of intense "suppressed laughter"…it looks so real and infectious that you too will react in exactly the same way!

4 – It was refreshing to see Sarika after so many years. In fact, I'd never seen her in a film after she became aged. Long, long time back (when in school) I'd seen a film in which she was just – believe it or not! - a Kid. Just see how time passes by.

And how can I forget Farooq Sheikh, the great actor he is? Sadly he passed away in the same month in which the film was released (Dec. 2013). We will all remember him by his Tumhari Amrita, Katha, Garam Hawa, Chashme Buddoor – and Club 60 too.

5 – You will get to hear melodious Ghazals - "Rooh Mein Faasle Nahin Hotey", "Pal Pal Khelti Hai Zindagi" and "Kho Kar Maine Aaj Tumhe Paaya Hai".

SAD POINTS about CLUB 60

1 - Raghubir Yadav's character is occasionally melodramatic and over-the-top which could easily have been avoided.

2 – After the "MOST touching dialogue" I'd just mentioned…and when you are in tears while listening to it…suddenly the scene changes to bursts of laughter amongst the members of Club 60.

This is a horrible anti-climax, I must say! It is as if the emotional build-up created by that heart-rending dialogue was suddenly "killed"!

Finally, such "thoughtful, eye-opening" entertaining films should be made more often. Although Club 60 is by no means a great film, but it is a film I'd love to watch MORE THAN ONCE.