Superstition exists even today in the interiors of India. Murari the Mad Gentleman is an honest effort to showcase the blind beliefs of village people which can be detrimental to the honest efforts of straight forward persons and in this case the troubles caused to a happy go lucky man who hasn’t brought any harm to anyone in the village, yet he has to face the wrath of people and made to suffer.
The film hits hard on the superstitions present in the society through the comical situations in the life of a mental patient, based on things going on in Bihar rural areas.
India’s rural states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and some rural states beliefs blindly exist without any research on superstitions are passed down from generation to generation.
These faiths have sprung with an objective to protect from evil spirit, but in this story a character in village who is named as a ‘mad person’ by villagers who do not allow him freely moving around the village, and even do not wish to communicate with him. And the mad gentleman will be coming out with pleasant gentleman for those who put crown of mad on his head.
The villagers try every means and methods to get rid of the problems which they think that it is Murari’s presence around them that is responsible for the hardships they face.
Though kind hearted, Murari has an image and behavior which is destroys the mental level of the people in the village.
They try all means to get him out of the village, finally reaching to the level of publicly flogging the poor chap.
Whereas this character Murari had his own hidden story which is revealed in the second half during the pre-climax.
The movie as following the culture of Madhubani, Phulpras and Bihar. The story also belongs to an American girl who comes to India and coincidently meet the ‘mad gentleman’. She is from a different culture and a free thinking person, and doesn’t relaise when she falls in love with this simple straightforward person.
Jenny, the narrator of the story looks comfortable visiting the remote areas of India, Asrani as the helpless Mukhiya is aware that Murari is being meted unjustly yet is helpless and Sanjay Singh is very natural.
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Cast:
Sanjay Singh as Murari
Asrani as Mukhiya
Natalya Llina as American girl Jenny
Surendra Rajan as Dadu
Kiran Sharad as Mohini
Yajuvendra Pratap Singh
Amitabh Acharya
Crew:
Banner: Deepa Krishna Production No. 1 & Sunny World Wide Films
Produced by: Kishore N Patel, Sunil Patel, Jignesh Shah
Director : Suzad Iqbal Khan
Music Director: Biswajit Bhattacharjee (BIBO)
Screenplay : Sagar-Abinash
Editor : Honey Sethi
Story Writer : Abinash Singh Chib, Sagar Nath Jha
Lyrics : Krishna Bharadwaj
Cinematographer : Ananta Gille
Choreographer : Kausar Shaikh
Dialogues : Abinash Singh ‘Chib’, Sagarnath Jha
Executive Producer – Rahul Patel
Media Relations: Ashwani Shukla, Altair Media
Distributor : Rich Juniors Entertainment
Music Company: Red Ribbon
Murari The Mad Gentleman, film review