Road, Movie

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6.7/10

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Vishnu, a young man driven by wanderlust, escapes his father's faltering hair oil business.

An old truck beckons, which Vishnu sees as his ticket to freedom. He offers to drive the
antique Chevy across the desert to the sea, where it has been sold to a local museum. As he
sets off across the harsh terrain, he discovers heÂ’s not merely transporting a battered vehicle,
but an old touring cinema.

Along the way, Vishnu reluctantly picks up a young runaway, a garrulous old entertainer and
a striking gypsy woman. Together they roam the barren land, searching for water and an
elusive fair. The journey turns dire when they are waylaid by corrupt cops and a notorious
waterlord.

The key to their freedom is the eccentric collection of films and the two forty-year-old film
projectors in the back of the truck. As in 1001 Nights, if the films are good, they live and
move on. If the films are boring, they face death in the outback.

The journey proves transformative for each of the travelers, but especially for Vishnu who
discovers life, love and laughter on the Indian highway.

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A young man's journey across the mythic Indian landscape becomes a life-changing odyssey.A young man's journey across the mythic Indian landscape becomes a life-changing odyssey.A young man's journey across the mythic Indian landscape becomes a life-changing odyssey.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

1.8K

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Awards
- 4 nominations total

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Abhay Deol

Vishnu

Satish Kaushik

Tannishtha Chatterjee

The Woman

Mohammed Faizal

The Boy
(as Mohammed Faizal)

Yashpal Sharma

Waterlord

Virendra Saxena

Police Chief
(as a different name)

Amitabh Srivastava

Aatma - Father

Suhita Thatte

Mother

Roshan Taneja

OPJ - Truck Owner

Shradha Shrivastav

Sister
(as Shraddha Shrivastava)

Hardik Mehta

Masseur

Shabbir Hussain

Hair Oil Convention President

Bharat Vaibhav

Head Constable

Rajinder Grover

Waterlord's Driver

Niraj Kothari

Developer

Director
- Dev Benegal
Writer
- Dev Benegal
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Featured review

8/10

cinematographic landmark, India's answer t o 'el aura'

You were not forced to buy a ticket to this and neither were you going to the theaters for a women crying on the remains of her dead son/husband.

Road,movie comes as a completely basic story line that has Vishnu(Abhay Deol) as a boy who goes through a certain phase revolving around poverty stricken, starving population of the deserts and ends the movie as a man.

The others are cameos, Satish Kaushik carves the way with super acting amidst the most gorgeous the deserts have ever looked ! 90 minutes are not very long and Road is more than worth it for within a certain number of years the main behind cinema will shift towards cinematography and art direction.This is the bible for those days.

overall a 7/10 || 8/10 and a pleasure watching the closest Bollywood has ever come to "El aura".

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Trivia
Dev Benegal has directed two movies, Road, Movie (2009) and English, August, une histoire indienne (1994), with commas in the title.

Goofs
When showing the arrival of performers for the fair, the setting sun is first shown about to disappear behind the horizon and a few scenes later it is higher above the horizon.

Crazy credits
Before the end credits, the film acknowledges to have ended by a slide-show of the words "The End" in different fonts, types, colors & even languages.