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The huge set piece of introducing each of the three main leads that forms three quarters of the first half is interestingly done and Rohan Sippy deserves much credit for it. There isn’t much of drug taking shown but what little is shown is done conventionally but very very colorfully. In the narcotics trade, mobs, sex and murders in the name of drugs. Even the little bits shown is painted with a hue of yellow in the background mingling with land almost saying the real action is happening beyond the shore. There is Goa and only Goa but you don’t see the sea at all. I missed the first half of the opening credits but from what I saw, it was snazzily done. The colour palette used to present Goa is rather refreshing.
The common thread running through them is their failed love stories and this bit he overdoes with Abhishek’s Vishnu Kamath. So Rohan Sippy doesn’t feel the need to explicitly show their grief and say,” please care for these people” and just shows us snatches of their life and its changing ways through a period. These characters are inherently good people, victimized by their judgements but not portrayed as people who turned evil because of that, like you’d usually see in a film involving drugs and crimes perpetrated by drugs. This is especially true of the second half where the story proceeds linearly, with the first half giving us the three main arcs/characters of the story and their backgrounds. The coldness allows Rohan Sippy to follow a narrative that is dispassionate and gives him (and us) a choice to sit on the fence without getting involved and observe the proceedings as an outsider. It’s not only the direction or the presentation but even the actors are mostly cold throughout, except for maybe Prateik Babbar’s Lorry. Rohan Sippy prefers to play it straight like that and he does so throughout the film. There is no correlation within those several names. The name Vincent Vega, one of the several names of a character used as the narrative device in Dum Maaro Dum, may remind you of Pulp Fiction but then you later realize that there is nothing to it.