October (ॲाक्टोबर)

​"October (ॲाक्टोबर)".

Watched Hindi movie "October (अॅाक्टोबर)". 

This movie is directed by Shoojit Sircar. Produced by Ronnie Lahri, Sheel Kumar. Written by Juhi Chaturvedi. Music by Shantanu Moitra, Abhishek Arora, Anupam Roy. Cinematography by Avila Mukhopadhyay. It features Varun Dhawan, Banita Sandhu, Isha Chaturvedi, Sahil Vedoliyaa, Karamveer Kanwar, Iteeva Pandey, Prateek Kapur. Film runs for about 1 hour and 55 minutes and was released in 2018. I watched it on 3rd Dec 2022 on Amazon Prime.

Dan is an aimless hotel management trainee. He’s immature, lacks seriousness and gets into one trouble after another. Shiuli is his colleague and friend. One day she falls from 3rd floor. Major injuries. 

How did she fall? What does Dan do? What’s the meaning of October? 

The movie is about Dan. Accident of his colleague and the knowledge that she asked about him before falling changes him. He spends most of his time in hospital. In that he loses his sleep, comfort, job etc.  Over a period of time he matures.  

The movie is not slow, it’s super slow. I didn’t like it. The objective was good but the execution wasn’t. It’s a coming of age story. It should have been presented in steps. Dan’s transformation should be gradual. There should have been a few flashbacks of Dan and Shiuli to explore their lives. But there’s nothing. The title also has little relevance. 

It’s a low budget film. It earned little less than two times its production cost. So it can be called a decent success. 

Positives: Concept. 

Negatives: Execution. 

Avoid.