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Cream: High on Drugs & Sex!
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Reviewer’s
Thumb Mark
I wonder why some
movies are made and after watching M Cream I feel may be they are made because we
can watch how movies can be made even when you have nothing to say. M Cream is
about four youths who bonds in a late night party in one of Delhi’s farmhouses.
Figs (Imaad Shah), Jay (Ira Dubey), Niz (Raaghav Chanana) and Maggie (Auritra
Ghosh) are always high on drugs and believe in the casualness of life.
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Jay a postmodern
intellectual who spouts about freedom, human rights, corruption and
environmental issues finds herself in disagreement with Figs who is cynical
about everything in life. Figs (Figaro) is in his own world of writing and
jotting his thoughts in a diary he carry with him and keeps telling that “Muje
sirf charas se pyaar hai”. The two unlikely pairs bond over a time because Jay
feels that Figs and she are not so different.
Niz a photographer
knows Jay and both are bound to Dharamshala on an assignment to cover the Free
Tibetan Movement. Figs and Maggie decides to join them to deal with the sudden
undersupply of drugs in the party circuits in Delhi. The existence of M Cream, a
mythical drug in the Himalayas drives this foursome to take a road journey
together in an open jeep. Figs finds this road journey to Mababajagal, believed
to be the world’s oldest democracy is also an escape from the clutches of his
parents, Mr. Mrs Bhardwaj’s (Tom Alter & Lushin Dubey) plan to bind him to
further academic pursuits and internship with a corporate law firm and Maggie who
is a rich pampered brat takes this like any other opportunity to be carefree with
Niz.
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Written and directed
by Agneya Singh, M Cream is terribly boring and pretentious to its hilt. The
characters and their political, social and philosophical discussions and
deliberations throughout the film are superficial and hollow. One wonders what
actually Agneya Singh wants to convey. Did he want to portray the transformational
journey of four youths from waywardness to finding a purpose in life? Did he
want to depict the dilemma of being a conformist and a rebel? Did he want to
say that it is the person who ultimately finds the purpose and not the other
way round? ‘In the throes of anarchy and chaos’; ‘A generation at war itself’; and
‘On the road to rebellion’ are a few taglines the trailer depicts. Then he has
miserably failed to convey the message emphatically and portray the same authentically.
What is good about M
Cream is its cinematography and its bunch of talented young and veteran actors.
M Cream received the ‘Best feature film award’ at the Rhode Island International
film Festival 2014 and it has been screened in more than a dozen International
film festivals.
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Let me quote Figaro
here to express what one feels after watching the movie: “I know the world is a
fucked up place But I am also smart enough to know that there is nothing that you
or I sitting here in this beautiful posh farmhouse can do about it”. So, let’s hope
and wait for Agneya Singh to come out of his love, sex, drugs and rebel-induced
hangover and present us a much more sensible and relevant movie. In short, India’s
first stoner movie ‘M Cream’ as the filmmaker claims disappoints.
Life
Connoisseur Movie Rating: 0.5/5
Cast:
Imaad Shah (Figaro), Ira Dubey (Jay), Auritra Ghosh (Maggie), Raaghav Chanana
(Niz), Tom Alter (Mr. Bhardwaj), Lushin Dubey (Mrs. Bharadwaj), Barry John
(Vishnu Das), Beatrice Ordeix (Marie Sartre)
Genre:
Road
movie
Director:
Agneya Singh
Producer:
Vindhya Singh
Produced
by:
Agniputra Films
Written
by:
Agneya Singh
Music
by:
Srijan Mahajan, Arsh Sharma, Mikhil Malik
Cinematography:
Mingjue Hu
Distributor:
All Rights Entertainment
Released
by:
PVR Cinemas
Release
Date: 22nd July, 2016
Duration:
114 Minutes
Language:
English/Hindi
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