Faas Marathi Movie Review: Predictable & Hard hitting

REVIEW

FAAS (Marathi)

Producer- Maheshwari Patel Chakurkar

Director-Avinash Kolte

Star Cast-Sayaji Shinde, Kamlesh Sawant, Pallavi Palkar, Ganesh Chandanshive, Namdev Patil, Nilesh Bade, Dnyanesh Undagavkar, Umesh Rajhans, Sharad Kakade, Ishwar More, Pawan Vaidya, Vinay Joshi, Deva Pandey, Pooja Tayde, Tejaswini and Upendra Limaye

Genre– Social

Platform of Release-Theatrical

Rating-**

Predictable &Hard hitting!

By Jyothi Venkatesh

The Marathi film Faas talks about the life of the ill-fated farmers and sets out to caution about the alarming increase in the rate of suicides by farmers, all over Maharashtra, though we are all blissfully unaware of their miserable plight. This film has won about 150 awards at various international film festivals and it is a treat indeed to watch Kamlesh Sawant emote the role of a farmer after a long time of being relegated to character roles mostly as a corrupt cop and finally breaking away from his set image in first-time director Avinash Kolte’s Faas (The Noose).

Kamlesh Sawant plays the role of a down-on-his-luck farmer Baliram, but it is the lead role perhaps for the first time in his career in Marathi films. Kamlesh Sawant struggles to lead a decent life with his wife Laxmi(Pallavi Palkar) and two children- son Vishnu (Sartak Patil) and daughter Soni (Vallavi Deshpande).

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Upendra Limaye plays the role of a honest policeman S.P. Ghorpade who is working in the village and how he hates his job because he has got nothing else to do but to appease his superior powers be and cannot do what he feels is good for the poor farmers. Upendra, as usual, leaves a good impact with his role as the cop who decides to let the farmer’s body be buried without waiting indefinitely for the post mortem.

The less said about the doctor Patil (Sayaji Shinde), the better. He just about overplays his character with gusto He sets out to please his superior the M.L.A by offering him drinks and asking a lavni dancer to look after him at a party that he hosted at the cost of attending to the post mortem in the only hospital in the village where he is the doctor on duty even while aspiring for a ticket to stand as a candidate in the elections.

Kamlesh Sawant does justify his role as the farmer while Pallavi Palkar steals the show with her role as the helpless wife. While the plot has nothing much to crow about since it is just about wafer thin and that too extremely predictable, Avinash Kolte deserves kudos for trying to make a palatable film which shows that as long as the system as well as the establishment are going to remain as it is today, there is little hope for the plight of the poor farmer who toils in his own land but not at all in a position to feed his near and dear ones.

The film begins on a positive note with the farmer coming home with a sari for his wife and clothes for his school going son and little daughter and asking his wife to wait for a meal consisting of mutton that he volunteers to cook for the family. Tragedy strikes the family when early the wife sets out to brush her teeth only to be shocked to see her husband hanging by the tree outside their house.

On the whole, the film is predictable and hard hitting but it is doubtful whether it will please the front benchers