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सीरियस मेन (2020)

Serious men starts with a deviant note that " It's hard to deal with primitive minds like you". Nawazuddin siddiqui's lustrous performance with Aakshath Das's slant characterization brings much to the screen as expected.
The film is a definitive piece and satire on the inferiority of dalits and brahmanical ideology. Nawazuddin siddiqui who plays the character of Ayaan Mani acts as a assistant to his upper class boss Arvind Acharya in the National Institute of Fundamental research. Mani who is more Bombaiya than his original Tamil roots had came a long way persisting the adversaries of caste oppression from society.
As in the early scenes of the movie we get to see Nawazuddin siddiqui turning the board which wrote “ Reservations cannot be the only compensation to treating fellow human beings like animals for the last 3,000 years.” In split second he changes the name to Amartya sen. This aphorism speaks a lot on the illusions and blindness of our society has persistently connived it.
Nawazuddin who plays the character quite aptly with much defiance and depth with a great touch of undertone humour. As we progress more we are realized about his ambitions that he has for his son Adi who must live a settled life with the pace of current generations who are leading it. Mani wants his son to become a prodigy and bring much astonishment while secretively feeding him with metaphorical knowledge behind.
The characters are much brilliantly written by writers Abhijeet Khuman and Niren bhatt who makes a cycle of advantage that each one sucks from another. The moral ambiguity of characters who use each other for their cynical purpose to gain social status is laudable. If we will take the case of politician Keshav dhavre who wants to use Adi as brand kid for slum development policy or Nawazuddin siddiqui who uses Acharya for his own gains.
Atanu Mukherjee’s editing and Shantanu Mukherjee’s costume works has done a splendid job of knitting the beautiful story together. Especially the ambience of their slums and their appearance has appeared as an immaculately in the visual texture.
Based on Manu joseph’s Novel Serious men the film works in most parts in satirising the stereotypic norms of society that has been ignorant to dalits who live under the wrath of society. Although the film has missed its tone of fortifying the protagonist to fight for its desires but its a recommendable watch. In other pivotal roles the audience will see Shweta basu Prasad playing Anuja Dhavre and Indira Tiwari as Oja mani.
Serious men is streaming on Netflix with Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English.