Movie Review: Tahaan

Banner: iDream Productions
Director: Santosh Sivan
Star Cast :Purav Bhandare ,Rahul Bose, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Victor Banerjee, Rahul Khanna, Sana Shaikh, Ankush Dubey, Dheirya Sonecha
Lyricist: Mehboob
Music Director: Adnan Sami, Taufique Qureshi
Cinematography: Santosh Sivan

The film “Tahaan” is about a little boy who gets greedy for his donkey to innocently commit a highly illicit act. The little boy in the film looks innocent and his affection for his donkey is also very sweet but the film lacks a constant script and screenplay to depict the sequence orderly and effectively. You don’t have the kind of music to support the movie but the Santosh Sivan movie has a difference in the way it shows terrorism on borders that is carried out though little innocent carriers.

The story of the film is about Tahaan who lives with his grandfather, mother and sister in Kashmir and they are all hoping that one day Tahaan’s father will return from somewhere who is missing from three years. Tahaan’s mother everyday goes with his father’s photograph to check if the police or the armies found her husband.

Then one day Tahaan’s grandfather passes away and the local moneylender, who wants to set up a bank in the village, takes away Tahaan’s donkey Birbal for the money he gave and sells the donkey to Subhan, who will take the donkey across the mountains.

Subhan are a very intelligent elderly man and he has lots of experience in life. Subhan is followed by Tahaan who wants his donkey back and initially Subhan is reluctant to get close to Tahaan but soon the little boy accompanies Subhan to go with him across the mountains.

Tahaan meets a teenage friend ldrees who gives him package to carry across the mountain that Tahaan puts the bag given by ldrees on his donkey’s back and he goes with Subhan across the mountains where he finds that the donkey is not even for Subhan but he is carrying it for one of his relatives. There are many twists and turns in the simple tale though the story lacks strength to stick to the main theme.

The shoot locations are beautiful and the screenplay is average. The screens look fresh and innocent. The performance of little Purav is efficient, he does his part best and he even looks the way he is presented. Anupam Kher is ok. Sarika has no dialogues to say and her eyes speak well. Both the Rahuls and Victor Banerjee are ok.

The film will get below average audience response.

Rating: 3/10