Road, Movie
U/A; DRAMA
Dir: Dev Benegal
Cast: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishta Chatterjee
**

What's it about: If Dev Benegal had to fill this space what would he say? Would he say it's the story of the water mafia in rural India or call it a coming of age tale of a man who wants to escape the world where people sell pungent hair oil and crack silly jokes at the dinner table? I doubt Benegal would say any of the above; he would instead go on a tangent about something else. Cause the whole film is one big tangent!u00a0 Perhaps his joie de vivre comes from being abstract about everything. To put it mildly, Road, Movie is a never ending self-indulgent fest that uses quirky characters -- a man (Abhay Deol) escaping his family in a truck that plays movies, a village girl (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a mechanic (Satish Kaushik), a helper boy (Mohammed Faizal Usmani) and a local goon (Yashpal Sharma) who smuggles water. The interaction between these people happens across the hauntingly beautiful backdrops of Jaisalmer and Kutch.