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Movie Review : Moksha (2001)

Producer: Ashok Mehta 
Director: Ashok Mehta 
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Manisha Koirala, Arjun Rampal, Naseeruddin Shah, Suresh Oberoi, Gulshan Grover
Music: Rajesh Roshan

Ashok Mehta took almost six years to deliver a film that may fail to run for six days. Moksha - Salvation, the film, may finally find its own salvation much sooner.

The could have delivered what it was meant to if it had not run late in the making. This was the film that was supposed to be Arjun Rampal’s vehicle to filmdom. The film is a carefully made portfolio for this actor who has been shown in every possible of the nine moods (nav ras) that acting is all about. Unfortunately the film ran just too late for its release and Arjun has now become at least three film old in Bollywood and a portfolio of an actor makes no great shake as a commercial release.

Needless to say, Arjun Rampal and Ashok Mehta’s awesome cinematography is what the film consists of and nothing else is worth a watch. The film is weak in story, sound, screenplay etc. Anyway, for your convenience, the story goes something like this: Vikram Saigal (Arjun Rampal), a student of law quite disillusioned with the existing legal system, refuses to work for any law firm. And spends his time riding horses and driving his jeep.

Enter Ritika (Manisha Koirala). She has an enormous crush on the debonair horseman and tries to woo him but to no avail. She finally buys him an expensive painting, gets invited for tea and the two of them fall in love. Between his girlfriend, jeep and horse, Vikram also wants to set up an establishment which offers free legal advice and expertise to the poor and needy. Such a venture needs money. Which Vikram very presumptuously expects his family and friends to give him. Needless to say, they don't share his sentiments.

So a very righteous Vikram decides to loot a bank with help from girl friend Ritika (here goes our version of Robinhood). Ritika is also game for it, but gets cold feet at the eleventh hour. So the police is tipped off and thus begin Vikram’s problems. To the director's credit, the scenes have a very surreal feel to them. The black-and-white scenes are simply breathtaking. But when put together, they fail to add to the narrative. Manisha Koirala has put in a good performance but the long years in the making is very evident on her. She looks different in every scene, which includes her makeup, which is inconsistent. One moment, her face is heavily made up, next it is absolutely bereft of makeup. Maybe that is because of the long time it took to make the film.


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