Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro

I recently got introduced to the filmography of Mirza Saeed Akhtar, and i dont know why i didnt watch this film before. It has a great cast, pawan malhotra is perfect as an angry muslim youth facing the difficulties and dillemas of being a minority. Everything is beautifully potrayed. Do watch this.

Well,I would say 1980-90 has been the best decade for the Indian Cinema. Parallel Cinema came to rise n flourished. Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro comes under that category. The central character Saleem is an uneducated chap who fills his pocket by doing petty crimes. He dreams of settling down by doing something big.

The characters are the strongest point of this film. Actually had a doubt over Pawan Malhotra for this major role but he has been excellent.

The film depicts the thinking of the uneducated Muslims.The gradual development in Saleem is beautifully shown.He begins to question his integrity his existence.

Kudos to the director for not inserting any unnecessary vulgar scene.

His unemployed father, his mother,his friends,his courtesan girlfriend the somewhat gypsy,the hotel owner all leave their mark.

Recommend watching!

Saeed Akhtar Mirza who gave us Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho and many good films, gives yet another good film The film has a good plot and it's well handled. It narrates a story of A tapori and his life and it's brilliantly handled. In it's short length of 1 hr 45 minutes it brings you a wonderful journey of a poor tapori and also throws light on goons.etc

Direction is good The film doesn't have many songs and there are okay

Pavan Malhotra is fantastic as Salim Langda, Vikram Gokhake is fab, Makrand Deshpande and Ashutosh Gowareikar are fab, Neelima Azim is fab Vikram Gokhale is apt, rest are all good

Some gem always remain buried underneath somewhere which only gets its value once unearthed; "Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro" is surely one shuch gem of art. I have seen some movies from 50s,60s,70s and so on in different languages. Amongst them some were those which I called ahead of their time and still relevant today and some were film which were just released yester years but still lagging in time and there were others which doesn't even matter. It's the first time I have watched a movie which I can say is for all the time. It's immortal in my views. And it's indeed necessary to unearth such films and bring it forward to the audience which deserves it.

This 1989 flick was one of the few films in the otherwise dismal 80s era of Hindi films. It was way ahead of its time. A human thinking about the other, a religion in question the existentialism of Salim superbly portrayed by Pavan and aptly supported by talented artists like Makrand Deshpande,Ashutosh Gowarikar, Surekha etc. It makes for a compelling watch. The character of Salim and his mind is cut open to the audiences. We go through the same journey.The social humour of arresting tension in a minority is captured in a contemporary lens. It fits for the modern Indian political scenario. The pace is bit slow in places. The movie grows on you so it can be overlooked.

8/10 👍