Movie review: Summer 2007 (2008)
Director: Suhail Tatari
Producer: Atul Pandey
Story and Screenplay: Bijesh Jayrajan
Dialogue: Ritesh Shah
Lyrics: Ujjaini, Vibha Singh, Gourov Dasgupta
Music Director: Gourov Dasgupta
Singers: Ujjaini, Sharib, Toshi, Aanchal, Bonnie Chakraborty, Gourov Dasgupta, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shweta Vijay
*ing: Sikander Kher, Gul Panag, Ashutosh Rana, Uvika Chaudhary, Arjan
Bajwa, Alekh Sangal, Vikram Gokhle, Sachin Khedekar, Neetu Chandra
(Special appearance)
The cluster of the society, who travels in its air conditioned car and
spends peaceful nights in their air conditioned houses, finds newspaper
and few minutes of television news as their only source of information
about the country. They even don’t bother to know about the section of
people belonging to the lower sectors of the society. Director Suhail
and his colleagues have understood and depicted the scenario very well
in Atul Pandey produced movie Summer 2007.
Life is mere a name of fun and enjoyment for five friends namely, Rahul
Sharma (Sikander Kher), Vishakha (Gul Panag), Priyanka (Uvika
Chaudhary), Kanteel (Arjan Bajwa) and Bagani (Alekh Sangal), all of
whom are final year medical students at Kasturba Medical College. They
know about how to rein their ego and that’s how, without thinking for
the second time, they all jump into the college politics. When they
realize the bleak of the otherwise alluring excitement, they evade
making an excuse of projects. Next, being invariably keen on having fun
and having less interest in final year project, the five of them reach
a hospital in a village near to Goa. There they meet Dr. Mukesh Jadav
(Ashutosh Rana) who single handedly runs the hospital which is on the
verge of closing down due the absence of help from government. People
in the village are so much indebted for monetary helps that they prefer
to engulf poison than to ask for money for buying food. The person
responsible for the dwindling condition of the village is the
moneylender of the village Bagh (Vikram Gokhle). If someone cannot
reimburse his amount then he thinks killing them as one of his
responsibilities. He doesn’t want the villagers to be self-dependent.
That’s why he tries to kill Shankar Gaetonde (Sachin Khedekar) who
endeavours on development of the village. Dr. Mukesh, alias Mukya, who
also dreams about independence of villagers, comes at the right time
and saves Shankar. In that mission of saving Shankar all the villagers
come in helping Dr. Mukesh without even thinking twice about their
lives.
Suhail deserves claps because of his meticulous eyes on the beauty of
Maharashtrian village along with the balance he maintained through his
characters, their outfits as well as the language. Sikander Kher, Gul
Panag, Uvika Chaudhary, Arjan Bajwa and Alekh Sangal are well in tune
with their characters. We especially can talk about Alekh, who
attracted the maximum number of eyeballs because of his nonpareil
performance in the film. On the other hand Sachin Khedekar and Vikram
Gokhle are up to the mark depicting their Marathi characters. Ashutosh
Rana throws his Marathi dialogue very well (maybe having a Marathi wife
has now been cashed with this film). Mere two scenes depict the
chemistry between Ashutosh and Gul but the mere moments are enough to
prove their maturity as actors.
People, who think farmers attempting suicide is a mere forgettable
issue, should go and watch the film as the film can tell them well
about how the issue is derogatory for the prestige of the nation.
Ratings: **1/2
-Rajnee Gupta
Copyright Sampurn
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