The actor, Dev Kapoor (Prosenjit), puts tremendous pressure on the potential donor’s family through politicians (even the Governor makes a call on his behalf), which is the only reason the entire traffic police department is galvanised into action. The acting is strictly efficient despite such names as Manoj Bajpayee, Prosenjit and Sachin Khedekar in the cast. The characters are dull and unlikable and are far more poorly sketched than in the original. There is a beating heart waiting to be transported and transplanted and all possible resources are deployed to do so, but Pillai is unable to recreate the same sense of urgency. There’s none of the energy and drive in the Hindi Traffic. The Hindi version straightens out the creases in the original, and we are sure somebody is feeling very proud of having thrown out the numerous flashbacks and the incessant inter-cutting between storylines.īut in the process, the essence of the original – and the reason it worked with audiences – has been lost. Yet, Pillai and writers Sanjay and Bobby make it work by creating credible characters and a sense of urgency and moral imperative to the business of saving a rich man’s daughter. In the Malayalam movie, the various plot strands are intertwined to the point of throttling narrative logic. In Traffic, several lives intersect over a heart transplant procedure: the parents of a young man who lies brain dead in a hospital in Mumbai, the star actor and his wife whose rapidly diminishing daughter in Pune is the intended recipient of the patient’s heart, a corrupt traffic constable who gets to prove himself when he is asked to drive the vehicle bearing the vital organ between the two cities, the enthusiastic traffic police chief who oversees the operation, and a murderous doctor. The widely publicised incident proved that when our notoriously addle-brained citizens manage to get their act together, they can put on one solid show. Doctors worked closely with the Chennai traffic police to ensure a clear corridor for an ambulance carrying a heart that needed to be transplanted. Pillai’s 2011 Malayalam hit cleverly managed to combine elements from the Mexican movie Amores Perros and a real-life incident involving a heart transplant in Chennai in 2009. Recruiting Malayalam director Rajesh Pillai to reshoot his own film for a national audience should have been as easy as switching on the engine. That is progress in an industry with a famously lax attitude towards copyright. Now we have Southern directors remaking their own films in the North Indian language. I've seen many documentaries which are better paced and interesting than Traffic Signal.First, there were unauthorised Hindi-language copies of Southern films. On the whole I don't have to spend my weekend with my girlfriend cribbing in a multiplex paying through my nose to suffer a hyped docudrama. But with all the dreamy eyes in the world he cant even if it bludgened him on his face! While trying to establish shades of diaspora of characters in-depth Madhur I guess somewhere forgot an anchoring spinal story. I am a great admirer of Sudhir Mishra's 'Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin' and his brilliant 'Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi' which probably is Indian cinema's first political epic saga is one of my all time favourite Hindi movies. Ranbir Shorey is a treat to watch and did I fall in love with 'Sunami'! That boy was brilliant. But Kunal Khemu certainly falls miles short in emotional scenes. Technically the movie is brilliant and everyone's acted well. I thought Madhur's AAN - Men At Work was far more entertaining than this debacle! he he Madhur certainly didn't have to end a terrific trilogy with this lame movie. On a Saturday night for the second show the hall had like 25 people and 7 walked out after interval. I don't remember the last time I had such a headache after watching a movie.
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