The story is about a very reputed and wealthy family which is suddenly hit by a financial crisis which will sink them to rock bottom. The family deals with the shock and disbelief, debates the two ways of dealing with the crisis and eventually comes to a unanimous decision. A detailed treatment is given to why not be absolutely selfish in difficult times as against why sell out all your long earned goodwill and credibility. Strong economic and logical sense is pitted against short term selfishness.
The story has been narrated well, with probably no unnecessary or superfluous scene anywhere. The picture boxes containing live reactions of surreptitious watchers of the enfolding family drama was done superbly. That counter balances the hint of closed spaces of a largely indoor, one room drama. These picture boxes deserve tons of additional applause.
There are no implausible or jerky moments in the entire narration. There was tight control over emotional meandering in the story when the shock sinks in and the other family members are in disbelief. None of the actors got very long monologues, and no one actor overshadowed in the story.
Krishna Bharadwaj (as Dev), Dharmendra Gohil (as Vasant) and Rajiv Mehta (as Suryakant) acted very well. Between Krishna Bharadwaj and Dharmendra Gohil, it is difficult to say who was better. Hemen Chauhan (as Viren), with many dialogues and good camera time, was good, but did not impress, as compared to the three other actors mentioned above. Strangely, the two girls Sheetal Pandya (as Pallavi) and Ketkie Jayshree Parekh (as Ananya) inexplicably seemed quite immature.
Apart from the two girls mentioned above, every other actor, including the ones which had the smallest of roles, was good.
The title song was rousing and excellent. It created pleasant anticipation for the movie to begin. Wisely, there was no song during the entire movie.
The house where they live and where all the action happens befits an ultra rich family. The film location therefore, was appropriate.
The on camera exhortations of the five Ideology Ambassadors (not well known people, at least to me) at the end of the movie was in bad taste. It spoils the overall impression of this well-made movie, with a powerful story, told well. The good message to be gleaned from the story is for the audience to understand, and not for these Ambassadors to lay it out in black and white after having taken so much care to narrate the story. The story and its message hits the audience without any distractions, and there is no need to buttress that underlying message by having relatively unknown Gujarat based (?) businessmen sermonize at the end. (Perhaps these five persons have financed the movie?).
The police officer who comes to arrest the family members did not look a policeman, what with his stylish wavy hair, which they tried to hide under his police hat. Perhaps he could have had a proper haircut like other Indian policemen in general?
At the end, they announce that Part 2 of the movie will come in 2018. Where is it? We are now in 2019.
