Right from his debut feature, Shoojit Sircar has always been different as a filmmaker. He’s one of the very few filmmakers who does what he wants without being too worried about what a bunch of suits expect, or what it is that the market demands. In fact, he doesn’t have a style per se; he deals in human drama, no matter what form that drama takes.
For instance, Vicky Donor and Piku are very unlike each other, but each of these two movies deals with relationships albeit in very different ways. Sircar is also the only director who doesn’t shy away from pacing his films like no other Bollywood director. For example, October still remains one of the most delicate recent films Bollywood produced.
It’s one recent film that didn’t stick to the formula of silly songs, cheesy romance, forced humor etc. and was true to its emotional core. The same can be said about I Want to Talk .
In I Want to Talk , Abhishek Bachchan is an ad-man at the top of his game. He will immediately remind viewers of Don Draper because, well, he’s an ad-man and there’s no other ad-man more iconic than Mad Men ’s Don Draper. He also has a similar temperament; he loves to talk, like ad-men do.
But it all comes crashing down when he’s diagnosed with throat cancer. He can no longer speak and, hence, the film’s story is narrated as a voiceover by Arjun (Abhishek’s character). Another important aspect of the film is Arjun’s relationship with his daughter Reya; a relationship he takes for gra.