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Soumitra Ranade's remake of Saeed Mirza's parallel cinema clbadic Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai (1980) is an angry Everyman story. The original was clear about his ideology – it was a capitalist tale against a worker telling the moral of the left (Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Rohini Hattangadi, Avtar Gill, Sulabha Deshpande). Ranade adapts the film to project the modern anxiety on a system in which, according to the protagonist of the film, Albert Pinto (Manav Kaul), everyone is put on sale.
Albert was once a man inside this system. He had a safe job, a girlfriend he wanted to marry (Stella, played by Nandita Das) and a house he wanted to buy. His family (father, mother and brother) values honesty before money. But when his father is involved in a financial scam without being his fault, Albert comes out of his dreams of middle clbad. He becomes an outsider who often seems to need the help of a psychiatry advisor.
But Ranade does not engage in psychotherapy. The Angry Man is enough for his tight-fisted story. Albert disappears and the Mumbai police are looking for him. To settle his account, Albert is traveling to Goa with Nayar (Saurabh Shukla), a hand-killer and thief. The trip reveals how Albert is cynical and embittered. Ranade, who also wrote the film, juxtaposes with Nayar's boundless humor. Will Albert reach his destination and find Stella
? It is a film loaded with dialogue, which reveals Albert's beliefs. Despite some comic relief, the movie is crushed. There is no distinct visual language that can say as much as words. The struggle of the men, especially the middle-clbad Indians whom Albert likens to the raven, is still relevant. But the treatment makes the film look like a treatise.
Manav Kaul has tremendous energy and thanks to him, Albert animates in some scenes. Nandita Das and Saurabh Shukla are equally competent in their role, although this is far from being one of Shukla's best roles.
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai has an anti-establishment heart, but because of somewhat outdated execution, she falls flat like a two-hour watch.
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