The opening lines "This film is for those who believe in good and for those who do not" says it all! I would say it is more for the disbelievers!!
Director, Prakash Kunte, has given us a film on goodness with huge dollops of humour and village psyche that is untouched by urbanness. The story is set in a idyllic Konkan village with its simple people, gently flowing rivers, a patch of a beach, dense forests.......all captured beautifully by cinematographer, Amalendu Chaudhary.
Keshav , (played by Hrushikesh Joshi) is an astrologer and what sets him slightly apart and above the rest of the village folk is his cycle, It is indeed a fine specimen that he has inherited from his grandfather, who in turn received it as a token of gratis from his British employer. This story is a favourite with his daughter, recounted many times over, and in the village and the neighbouring ones too! So much so, that it is a part of the persona that Keshav is, inseparable from one another. Keshav will not lend his cycle to anyone and when not in use it is not left parked outside the house but kept safely indoors! Such is the care lavished on this prized possession. As trouble would have it , the cycle is stolen the very day he hurriedly leaves to attend a village play with his family. The loss is not just of an object but of an identity itself.
The thieves, Mangya and Gajya, brilliantly played by Priyadharshan Jadhav and Bhalachandra Kadam, move around the neighbouring villages with the cycle trying to get away from the place with their spoils. They are met with people who identify the cycle with Keshav and his good nature. Their escape journey and the parallel journey of Keshav , in search of his cycle, nay alter ego, forms the core of the story. This becomes the journey of self realisation.
Watch it to revive you from the pandemic blues!!
