The thorny relationship between father and son that shapes the “Meha Boys” story leads us to predict solutions that will make things better. The theme incorporates a familiar, predictive slope, but what lifts “The Mehta Boys” is a small spur of unpredictability built into the script for Boman Irani’s directorial debut.
And the performance is all perfect pitch.
Bowman Irani knows to live in Shiv Meta without some separation. Irani’s vague and quirky Parsi gentleman is his many Shiv’s amalgams and we may have come across it, so we are not surprised. This is his territory and he enjoys it.
Junior Meta Boy, Amai (Avinash Tiwari) lives in Mumbai and tries to hack it as an architect under the benign eyes of the company owner (Siddharth Bass). My son, who has left the house but has yet to find his legs, is very good, at work, or at his rough flat, as usual.
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A colleague, Cam Girlfriend, Zara (Shreya Chaudhry), recruits a clever woman when faced with a man who doesn’t, or can’t do what he needs to do to get the place he wants Shows a mix of love and experience. Shiv’s US-based daughter Anu (Puja Sarup), who is naturally wary of tensions between her father and siblings, shows up temporarily to leave, leaving the two men on the device. Masu. Can they forge it until they make it?
These pushes and pulls come to the fore as the story progresses, written by Irani and Alexander Dinelaris. There’s writing, but things shrink in some places and the film loses its fluidity a bit. You hope those scenes are given more breathing time. At a critical point, Mehta Sr looks out of the balcony of Mehta Jr’s flat and shakes his head with all “glass and steel.”
But they are minor niggles. In all the dads Bollywood has been offering these days, “Meat Boys” considers dad issues with understanding and empathy, checks relationships, and pasting them is worth your time.
Mehta Boys Movie Cast: Boman Irani, Avinash Tiway, Shreya Chaudhry, Puja Sarup, Siddharth Basu
Mehta Boys Movie Director: Boman Irani
Mehta Boys Movie Rating: 3.5 Stars
