Vivek Anchalia's Tikdam , which arrived on JioCinema on Friday, stars Amit Sial as a man caught at the crossroads between his kids and better financial prospects in another city. Tender, packed with hope and aspiration, and astonishingly humane, it mostly makes the right narrative choices and stays right on track. It may be a small film, but it has a large, tangible beating heart.
This is what happens in the film Prakash lives in Sukhtaal with his parents and two young kids. When the hotel where he works closes its shutters due to a lack of tourists, he has no option but to take up a job thousands of kilometers away from home, in Mumbai. However, his kids are torn apart by this development, and with their friends, devise tikdams (tricks) to make him stay.
I didn't want to come back from this world It may sound like the bare minimum, but films that can enchant you to the extent that you are scooped up in their world are hard to come by. Here, I felt as if I was a part of this sleepy little town nestled in hills, and the shots capture the town's beauty so vividly that you can't help but wish you could teleport! Watch out for Sial's exemplary performance Sial is perfectly cast as a man who is panting to catch up with the world, feeling washed up on the shore, forlorn and seemingly irrevocably deserted. Even though you may not have been in Prakash's situation ever, Sial sells the pathos incredibly well.
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