Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Director: Rajesh Mapuskar
Starring: Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Ritwik Sahore, Paresh Rawal
Music: Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics: Guru Thakur
Genre: Comedy, Emotional, Family
Recommended Audience: General
Approximate Running Time: 139 minutes
Film Released on: 15 June 2012
Storyline
As Sharman Joshi’s character Rustam cheers his son Kayo from stands while Kayo is hitting the cricket ball with the new bat which Rustam has bought after putting in all his savings, your heart goes to Rusy. Kayo could not hit the winning run, as like any other honest simple middle class father of India, Rusy fell shorter by a wish, that of a better shoe. Ferrari ki Sawaari is a story that makes that little extra happen, it is about seeing the brighter side of life. If the individual style of the new age directors of Bollywood can be classified as a formula, Rajesh Mapuskar follows his mentor and attempts to build over a very familiar Rajkumar Hirani formula. It tries to create emotional highpoints where the audience gets vulnerable and then creates that emotional shift on such a highpoint; from celebratory happiness to contemplative reality or vice-versa.
And this formula is always backed by comic unrealistic but idealistic situations, whether it is that of Munnabhai getting into a medical college and trying to define a doctor’s job or a Rancho studying in a college defining the meaning of education. So is Rajesh Mapuskar able to garner the same effect? Vidhu Vinod Chopra seems to be loving production of such movies and his involvement goes deep to a level where he gets involved in story and screenplay development as well. So does this have the magic of 3 idiots and Munnabhai? Does Sharman Joshi deliver the performance he has been waiting for in his first solo? Let us find out.
Ferrari ki Sawaari is a family come sports entertainer. It is about how a man’s faith in his son and his will of making things happen for him, takes him to different places. As the name suggests Ferrari becomes an interesting story vehicle (pun intended). Rusy in all his actions takes care of becoming an ideal father to his son – “Jo dekhega wohi seekhega,” as he says. Rusy’s father has a past that makes him grumpy, sitting about in his chair struggling with the TV remote. And Rusy’s son is a dreamer. He wants to be the best cricketer – like Sachin. We idolize talented stars in any field, especially sports. But this movie is about that man in the stands who smiles back and has made it happen.
Sharman Joshi’s subtle and underplayed Rusy is at the heart of this movie. It is him and only him on whom the movie rests, and he surely delivers a performance that one would remember for a long time. It is unlike any of his avatars from Style to 3 Idiots. The movie’s best scenes are truthfully the ones that are the interactions between the father son duos – Boman Irani and Sharman Joshi as well as Sharman Joshi and Ritwik Sahore. Boman Irani proves again that he is one of the finest actors in the industry. His portrayal of old Deboo, who is bitter at cricket and his old cricketer friend Dharmadhikari (Paresh Rawal) is splendid. A first timer with a lot of responsibility, Ritwik Sahore, also fits the role and delivers a great performance. The story is interesting and screenplay has some brilliant moments. But somewhere down the line the movie gets diluted by characters it tries to create and add to the central theme.
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