The gaps in the relationships between fathers and sons are a matter of course. It is accepted as a fact of life. How often do we examine the complicated wys? We saw the toxicity of father and son in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s second animal and Vikramaditya Motwan’s debut Udaan. In Shoojit Sircars Piku we also saw the dynamic hyper -reactive complexity between father and daughter; And in a few other film. However, none of the above -mentioned films tried to answer the why behind the complexities. The Mehta boys also didn’t try to examine it. However, it is such a nice film that estimates that it has no cognitive requirements of them. Except for the heart to understand the weaknesses of the relationship of the father and son.
Father’s son: The gap never explained
Amay (Avinash Tiwary) is an architect with little self -esteem in Mumbai. He is too shy to talk about his ideas and opinions. There is a constant feeling of impressive syndrome in him and he is waiting to win the approval of a parental figure. The relationship with Shiv, his father (played by Boman Irani very fine), is confused and unexplained. The reluctance of the makers to explain the origins and reasons for dysfunctional relationships is not to blame. Because we all have made peace with the fact that human relationships are too complex to understand them. And we might have also made peace with Adamant parents like Shiv, if not in the attitudes of animal and Udaan, but in the somewhat similar spirit of Piku.
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Boman Irani as a director and writer in the Mehta boys who have taken this already normalized trope with dysfunctional parent-child relationship, and achieves a really heart-heating story that in many urban adolescents and oldest who know the pain at home at home Leave in an apartment with their children, which is called home. And in the same apartment (Read Home) of Amay, his father had to spend his weekend because Shiv’s flight to Florida was postponed to Monday and Anu (Amay’s sister, who lives in Florida, was played by Puja Sarup) the two man-man children In a house.
The generation gap in the Mehta boys
Shiv is an old school type – who “academically” mocked his son about the limits of the production of architectural art works without his laptop. He believes that great works of art before the technology with only pen and paper were created. However, his father was also a new school one in his youth – who was ridiculed by his father because he had carried out a writing institute that undermined the pen and paper. This crucial information was very subtly connected during her informal conversation after a few drinks on a nightless candle (which later converted an enemy confrontation as expected).
This additional information section in the Mehta boys helps you to understand how fundamental the generations are transformation, and we often cannot recognize this in order to pursue the romance of past and future. This scene is also very important, because this is the moment when you understand who is really the Nitpicker (both are the same family after all!). And so empathy changes from son to father.
The parent-child phenomenon
Suddenly the parent becomes a child and the child becomes a parent. This transformation for parents and children’s parents is not that suddenly. Nevertheless, they suddenly feel it in their life. There is a certain unspoken pressure to address the child that has not been recognized in an adult.
Amay asks his girlfriend Zara frustrated – after a little accident during the argument of the father and son in the middle of the street on a rainy night – to decide whether to treat his father as a child or as an adult.
Amay asks his girlfriend Zara frustrated – after a little accident during the argument of the father and son in the middle of the street on a rainy night – to decide whether to treat his father as a child or as an adult. Zara-die ankerin after his dead mother in her father-son-and-erent-ert Amay, who is really the child and who the father is.
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The history of the Mehta boys, who were written by Alexander Dinelaris (Oscar winner-Birdman-Ruhm) and Boman Irani, slowly brings them to the weaknesses of the characters, especially the shivs. At the dining table, when the father meets Zara for the first time, he tells the anecdote when he learned that her wife was the one. While he tells his story, cameraman Krish Makhija slowly turns the camera, which holds Bomans shimmering face in the middle.
The moment he talks about the humiliating experience not to have enough money to buy the Saree that he sees his wife to wear Avinash Tiary, who changes from a healthy smile to anxious awkwardness. Because he told the waiter that he should divide the last bill in half, although his father insisted that “this perfect evening” was his pleasure.
This scene is of the father who is exposed to humiliation again and the son humiliates himself.
This scene is of the father who is exposed to humiliation again and the son humiliates himself. Once again it is choreographed by Krish Makhija – shows the right elements at the right time – shows the specialist knowledge that Boman Irani has won as an actor for years.
Architecture of relationships in the Mehta boys
This story of two human children in the Mehta boys needed emotional sensitivity to understand where the hard emotional immature came from. The role of Amay’s dead mother is taken on by an emotionally ripened Zara and Amay’s sister Anu. We don’t know much about Zara, except for a few small excerpts that give us space to understand their psyche. For example, she calls the waiter in a chic restaurant with his name in his badge. And she also calls the son’s immature by reminding Amay who the child is really.
It also encourages Amay to present its original architectural designs. She speaks the pep, but she doesn’t push him. But she supports his radical ideas with her data -led specialist knowledge in the meeting room. Zara becomes an anchoring point in Amay’s life. Boman Irani dealt very ripe with Zara’s character in a not suitable way and escaped the over -aerial Template of women as a Redeemer of a dysfunctional house.
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Amay ended up the relationship with his father as expected and rightly hope. This reconciliation in Shiv’s real home only takes place after Amay opened and defended his designs in the meeting room. He takes his radical designs that really represent the regular spirit of India, and not some random “modern glass and steel buildings”. The arc of reconciliation with his work and his family is well matched and justified, as Amay realizes that his father struggled with him to only prepare for him in life. It is really a heartwarming moment when one parent recognizes the original work of his child with Happy-Tears. Both Boman Irani and Avinash Tiwary have nailed their appearances.
It is really a heartwarming moment when one parent recognizes the original work of his child with Happy-Tears. Both Boman Irani and Avinash Tiwary have nailed their appearances.
Boman Irani has certainly taken up as a sensitive writer director. His directorial debut The Mehta Boys is a well -written dysfunctional family drama of father and son, who overwhelms her heart and may be able to fill her eyes with one or two drops in the end.
The Mehta Boys are now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Azdhan (ER/ER) is a full -time film critic who works for feminism in India. If he does not read or write, he will only go out-even if there is no window-remember to write his next novel to adapt it to a script. The backend process of the experiment to build something that urban loneliness can solve is always in his head.