The only thing that drew me towards Meel Patthar or Milestone is Ivan Ayr. He directed this impactful story and has prior directed Soni which was released in 2018. It was about a cop Soni played incredibly by Geetika Vidya Ohlyan who with her senior superintendent is battling the wrongdoings against women in Delhi. Ivan's direction was striking in Soni, how he showed the spirit of his protagonists, so nuanced and crude, anybody would undoubtedly want to see who's the one behind the director's seat. He knows how to introduce his central character, the manner in which he did with Soni, the same is with Meel Patthar, we have here a truck driver Ghalib.
Ghalib (Suvinder Vicky) is a truck driver was has finished 500,000 kilometers with his dearest truck and is currently experiencing back pain. The helpers are protesting and the drivers presently have to stack and unload from the trucks themselves. There's so much going on in the film, Ghalib has as of late lost his wife who was from Sikkim, and has now to repay her family, Ghalib's associate Dilbaug (Gurinder Makna) is terminated from the work as he is confronting troubles to see clearly around night time. Ghalib is likewise given a duty to educate an amateur Pash (Lakshvir Saran) who is likely going to supplant Ghalib later on as his hair is becoming grey.
Still, Ivan Ayr and his co-writer Neel Mani Kant figures out how to deliver it with quietness and nuance, it was so breathing to perceive how everything has been introduced to you. The characters are so delightfully composed, their misfortune and distress, their agony, the dejection, Ghalib's life is brimming with wreck yet there is a space Ivan effectively makes to really stimulate you to feel for him. There is a home he barely goes to, and when he goes he needed to wipe out the dust from the table. Ghalib has his own particular manner of lamenting and the way is that "he doesn't have the haziest idea how to lament". More often than not he keeps his agony inside, yet he shares what he had with his wife while conversing with his Kashmiri neighbors or with his colleagues.
Pash appreciates Ghalib and at a particularly youthful age had to avoid home and work as a driver. Ghalib doesn't need him to work here and to squander his life thus he offers to him cash so that Ghalib's employment opportunity wouldn't be at serious risk. Ivan Ayr doesn't go into subtleties and show the thought processes and sufferings of different sides agreeably. The workers are protesting as they need to expand their everyday charge by a mere two rupees. However, the track of his wife and how she died actually doesn't pop up clearly. The music is somewhat kept unimportant and thus the film generally depends on the sound design, the ambiance of the street, the sound of different trucks that fills your ears.
The discussions are kept nice, with no drama, and Angello Faccini's cinematography likewise works like a miracle. It reminded me of Oscar Winner Nomadland where the wide shots additionally talk with similar strength as any ordinary discussions do. The dawn and dimness of Delhi are impeccably caught, the dark blue shades function admirably drawing out a repulsive and dull look to the film very much like Ghalib's life. It's likewise excellent that how the camera centers around every minute detail that is happening around the primary characters. The long shots where Ghalib is shown driving on the endless paths adds more profundity to the film and the characters.
Suvinder Vicky as Ghalib doesn't drop a bit playing a truck driver. He's persuading in each frame and how he depicted Ghalib with such subtlety is admirable. Physically and intellectually Suvinder Vicky is Ghalib for straight 97 minutes. Lakshvir Saran carries a newness and youthful energy to the film with his essence and he is amazing. So no doubt, simply stream it, Milestone is another hauntingly beautiful and moving film from Ivan Ayr. Indeed, I get myself not completely contributed to Ghalib's pain however in any event it doesn't glamourize any person or thing. Its strength lies in its normalcy and delivers every punch in a simple way possible, similar to when Ghalib says, "I do this work because this is who I am. My misery lies in the fact that this is 'all' I am", it talks everything for Ghalib.
Rating:- 3.5/5
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