Metro in dino review: first monsoon like beauty of rain
Metro in Dino Movie Review: Anurag Basu’s ‘Metro … In Dino’ is a gentle reminder how love happens in everyday life, like the first rain of the season. This is an anthology set in the Indian metro, where the characters feel the heart warmly real. Basu creates a symphony of romance, regrets and redistribution.
In short
- Anurag Basu examined many colors of love in ‘Metro … In Dino’
- The film has been installed in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune and Kolkata
- Four couples portray different love stages and challenges really
cast Crew
Sara Ali Khan
Anupam Kher
Aditya Roy Kapoor
Pankaj tripathi
actor
Ali Fazal
It is strange how we have been making stories about love for more than a century, and yet, we have no real formula for love. What is this really? A fleet moment of happiness? A subtle brush of skin? Sudden exchange of eyes? Although it can be defined, stories tell us that love is everything. And so, when Anurag Basu decides to dig into deeply in many of his colors in ‘Metro … in dino’, you feel it – in all its uselessness. You think how love age, how it comes unannounced, and what it leaves behind.
The beauty of ‘Metro … In Dino’ lies in its setting. Basu does not just tell stories – he stages emotions. The rain dripped like a soundtrack. City breathe in background. Below a Dim Streetlite, on a pavement, a bust loves at the stop. The shaving of these places is what makes them magical – you can walk on the streets, cafes you must have passed. This familiarity lends the film to its cool attraction, as if reminding us that the most romantic moments are often the most common.
A lot in ‘Life in … A Metro’, Basu bows down in his signature style of storytelling. But this time, he goes one step further – he crafts a true -blue music, which has indifference and grounded spirit. Four couples scattered in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata, each have a different shadow of love.
Pankaj Tripathi and Konkhana Sensaharm play a middle -aged pair with a teenage daughter, who battles with a fading spark in their wedding. Nina Gupta and Anupam Kher adopted two alone hearts, which they never got, which they wanted from life. Ali Fazal and Fatima Sana Sheikh play the role of a young couple who are trapped between personality and intimacy. And Sara Ali Khan and Aditya Roy Kapoor’s love story looks like a gentle shock of Destiny.
Stories in Basu’s romantic universe are interesting, reliable and very romantic. Their struggles are familiar, and their happiness is worth celebrating. An old woman wants to live in her puberty in a college reunion, a husband chased his wife to apologize to Goa, refused to leave a wife during her hard Times, or fall into love with two strangers – you think you know these people. You are probably one of them.
This is a music journey, not only in sound but also in rhythm – a soft, dominated flow that lets you soak in life on -screen. Displays are infallible, and writing, faster. The film does not promise big plays from life. It celebrates life as it is: dirty, hot, incomplete and beautiful.
In a scene, Tripathi’s Monty Sisodia says, “Ajnabi, Anjana Safar. Kuch Nahi Bana toh will become a Kahani (Two stranger, an unknown journey. Even if nothing happens, a story will remain). “Tripathi is the heart of the film. He is familiar, warm and quietly powerful. He anchors emotions with such subtlety that his scenes become a joy to see.
Konkana and Ali Fazal, especially, shine with mature, layered performance. On a video call, a breakdown – Simple and Raw – shows Ali in its best, from which you feel the pain of a person who does not know how to ask for help. Ali’s sky is so torn and deeply tortured that you feel for him – you see his helplessness.
Basu weaves a world that feels lovingly painted. ‘Metro … In Dino’ is probably the perfect love story for the monsoon. It is wet in the rain, but it is also a lot of craving, waiting and releasing. City – Their chaos and silence – become part of the story. Views are wet in poetry – traffic flowing on the previous glass windows, talking to the balconies, ignoring the skyline, the yellow taxis in Kolkata zip in the past – Basu does not show you cities, he feels them, he talks to them.
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It is not a one-ton film. It is vibrant, colorful, texture, and leaves you with a smile when rolling the credit. The audience is craving for a romantic film that feels both meaningful and turmoil, it is.
Music by Pritam Chakraborty deserves its moment. It does not punish the film, it defines it. Without it, anthology will not be what it is – a living, sweet experience. The songs raise the story in a memory.
There are also delightful bonuses: Basu creates a cool cameo, Imtiaz Ali plays himself, and is even a blink-end-Mis Guddu-Kalen Bhaiya Pal (Iykyk). From innocent jab, we provide everything in mature, sweet love, ‘metro … in dino’ – and it all makes sense.
The ‘metro in dino’ lets you feel. Each frame looks directly out of an art exhibition, and each song tells something. It is cinema on its beautiful, honest best.
