Sulemaani Keeda: When a world exists outside your own perception

Sulemani Keeda, an interesting story which leaves you a little sour at the end of the narrative which could have been woven into a characters and story with much more depth and less menace to the central idea, which seems to fizzle out somewhere, probably because of bad direction or screenplay.

Set in Bombay, the movie brings out the despicable state of lives in the Bollywood City , where everyone is an “aspiring” writer, director, actor etc. The two protagonists of the story, Dulaal (Naveen Kasturia) and Mainak(Mayank Tewari). Naveen Kasturia brings the Dulaal beautifully on screen, throwing his nervous energy, self consumation, restlessness, thoughtfulness and unsatiated desire, while Mayank Tewari puts out Mainak, a young, shabby, useless aspiring writer who really doesn’t know how to write, yet tries to save his skin everywhere until reality faces him.

Both aspiring writers are desperately trying to make their voices heard in the Bollywood and trying almost everything and knocking every gate, but this seems like a tough nut to crack. The constant failures and rejection forces them to question their own craft (rightfully so!) and makes them almost push their leg in the (any) door that comes their way, no matter how mindless and numb it is.

Movie throws light on the journey of writers and how an inherent class system that exists between TV and film writers. One of the character, who is also a fellow writer, almost calls himself a vendor and tells other writers also, to think like a fruit vendor and not like a writer.

The film elicits the deplorable state of writing in this nation and how every writer has to cross a firewall in order to make himself heard at least. No wonder we have Khans producing some of the most dilapidated content and have crowd still shaggging to it.

The movie brings out the immaturity of both the protagonists, who have grown up in size and body but not with their minds. They fail to recognise that life exists outside their own perception about themselves and when they confront it, discomfort, pain and hopelessness come out as immediate repercussions.

The most irksome part about the movie is the character of Ruma (Aditi Vasudev, who played it well) but her character didn’t weave well into the main script of the film and as a viewer you tend to feel that sub-plot of the movie meanders the whole movie into different direction as compared to what we expected it to, in the beginning. Her part seemed to become the pivotal part of the movie too forcefully instead of being just slipped into the main theme.

The whole plot seems somewhere lost in the beautiful yet not required love tension between Naveen Kasturia and Aditi Vasudev, and Sulemaani Keeda fails to give you what you expected out of it. Perhaps the directors and writers tried to fit their several own Keeda such that the whole movie on the whole failed to become Salman and sadly remained Sulemaan!!!
(Those who have or will watch the movie will understand the context of Salman and Sulemaan :P)

Trailer of the movie: https://bit.ly/3gdvGAm

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