Film Review: Summer 2007

Film: Summer 2007

Banner: Atul Productions, Adlabs Films Ltd

Producer: Atul Pandey

Director: Suhail Tatari

Cast: Sikander Kher, Gul Panag, Ashutosh Rana, Sachin Khedekar, Divya Dutta

Rateing: 2.5/5

Summer 2007 boldly goes where most films fear to. It does not necessarily mean it does a great job of it but the fact that it tries is laudable enough.

Patriotic films, those who have nothing to do with yesteryears' martyr heroes but ARE about today's socio-political scenarios, are tough subjects to pull off. The brilliant Rang De Basanti or the sub-average Halla Bol in recent times are good examples. And for movies that deal with problems of the urban educated milieu who are extremely tough to get interested.

Summer 2007 goes all out through the lives of five urban, affluent, educated youth to sensitize audiences about the plight of farmer suicides that have been plaguing India like a viral disease since 1997. The effort, concept and the attempt deserves respect.

The film tells a tale of five urban youngsters, medical interns whose lives revolve around the regular girls, fun, love, money, booze, dope routine. Whose problems extend as far as trying to find the right lay or love. For whom everything can be bought by flashing greenbacks and for whom basically life is uncomplicated because it is not committed.

Except for one of them. Vishakha (Gul Panag) who, despite her wealth, is socially aware and sensitized. The leader of the brat-pack is Rahul, (Sikander Kher) who in his brashness takes on a challenge against the local student leader and finds himself enmeshed in dirty student politics.

He plays a mini-game of his own and takes the escape route in the mandatory rural project prescribed by their medical course. They land in a small village, planning to bribe the official there and take off to Goa for an extended holiday soon. But slowly get involved in a fight that doesn't begin with them but becomes theirs as they proceed.

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