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Tryst With Destiny review: An anthology of agony, pain and irony of Independent India
What: Prashant Nair’s anthology Tryst With Destiny – the Tribeca Film Fest 2020 winner for best screenplay brings forth the failure of the Nehruvian values in four different chapters in Sony Liv’s short series powered by brilliant performances.
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Writer-director Prashant Nair’s Indo-French production Tryst With Destiny comments on the failure of Nehruvian values based on the famous speech by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India.
Prashant Nair brings forward the agony, pain and irony on the prevalence of poverty, class divide, discrimination, corruption etc in the anthology that consist of four stories.
Fair and Fine
It’s the story of billionaire Galava Mudiraj (Ashish Vidyarthi) who has risen from a chaiwala to a mighty billionaire.
Galava Mudiraj is leading a happy life with supportive wife Yayati Mudiraj (Suhasini Maniratnam) and two daughters, Madhavi (Sahana Vasudevan) and Vaishali (Anika Radhakrishnan).
One day during his daily swimming routine in a five-star hotel Galava Mudiraj while trying to save a puppy gets locked outside and while returning back from the main gate, gets rudely poked on his colour by the security personals.
Galava Mudiraj vows revenge that disturbs the peace and serenity of his household.
The River
A butcher played by Vineet Kumar Singh lives with his wife played by Kani Kusruti on the outskirts of the village. The sad life of the lower caste Gautam and his family – his wife and two children is silent over all the atrocities happening to them. Enslavement, discrimination and more.
One BHK
A take on greed, power, corruption and need, it’s the story of a traffic policeman in Mumbai Kuber (Jaideep Ahlawat) and his love affair with Laxmi (Palomi Ghosh). Laxmi has better standards and taste.
In order to win her heart Kuber starts indulging in unlawful activities for some quick bucks and buy the 1BHK apartment of her choice.
This one intensely travels through human morality and consciousness.
A Beast Within
The last one set in Maharashtra revolves around Bhau (Amit Sial) a local villager who wants to settle his personal score with a man-eating tiger and Neelam (Geetanjali Thapa) an officer from the forest department who with her team is out to catch the tiger.
The standoff results in something unexpected.
Performances are of the highest level over here and its difficult to single out the best from the highly talented ensemble cast. Vineet Kumar Singh, Palomi Ghosh, Jaideep Ahlawat, Kani Kusruti, Ashish Vidyarthi, Amit Sial, Ishwak Singh, Lilette Dubey, Victor Banerjee, Geetanjali Thapa, and Suhasini Maniratnam all excel
Technicalities
Tryst With Destiny is well crafted. Avinash Arun cinematography is outstanding and it’s another character to the story. Xavier Box's editing is in sync. Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor background score adds to the momentum.
Final words
Tryst with Destiny by Prashant Nair streaming on Sony Liv is an anthology of agony, pain and irony of ‘in’ dependent India and Indians powered by outstanding performances.
Tryst With Destiny is well crafted. Avinash Arun cinematography is outstanding and it’s another character to the story. Xavier Box's editing is in sync. Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor background score adds to the momentum.
Tryst with Destiny by Prashant Nair streaming on Sony Liv is an anthology of agony, pain and irony of ‘in’ dependent India and Indians powered by outstanding performances.
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