Straight From The Heart
Film: Timepass (Marathi)
Cast: Prathamesh Parab, Ketaki Mategaonkar, Vaibhav Mangale
Directed by: Ravi Jadhav
Duration: 2 hrs 20 mins
Rating: * * *
Director
Ravi Jadhav scored at the box office with Balak Palak and his latest venture
Timepass is more than just what the title suggests. It offers some solid
entertainment and also makes some valid points about the society.
If the
Nagraj Manjule’s brilliant Fandry was
about the caste divide, Timepass delves on class but with a slightly lesser
intensity. There is also common link between Sujay Dakahe’s Shaala, Fandry and
this film – they all have an adolescent love story around which everything else
revolves.
Dagadu (Prathamesh
Parab who also acted in Jadhav’s Balak Palak) is a young guy who has failed
repeatedly in Std. X. His father who drives and auto rickshaw to make ends
meet, kicks him out of the house and Dagadu becomes a newspaper delivery boy.
One day he sees Prajakta (Ketaki Mategaonkar, playing a similar role to the one
in Shaala) and instantly falls in love.
Now Dagadu
is not the ‘smartest’ guy around, he is more like what is conventionally
referred to as a tapori. But he is a
sincere and earnest boy who wears his heart on his sleeve and that’s the reason
the girl falls for him. Her background couldn’t be more contrasting though –
her father (Vaibhav Mangale) is a disciplinarian who wants to raise his
daughter with ‘traditional values’. Interestingly though, in a conversation
with the rickshaw driver, he mentions that doesn’t believe in the class divide
but is more concerned because the boy whom his daughter loves is uneducated and
coarse in the way he speaks.
For most
parts, the film will have you in splits and that is primarily because of
Dagadu’s character and his lines, which are some what similar to Munnabhai’s
lingo. It is only in the last lap that the film looks a bit stretched and
labors a bit.
Technically,
the film is quite polished and the songs are well shot and integrated in the
story. Prathamesh Parab deserves an A for his acting and has a terrific sense
of comic timing. Ketaki Mategaonkar has been there done that but it has to be
done again and she fares well.
Timepass offers some wholesome entertainment and is eminently worth a watch.
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