'Killa' U/A; Marathi-drama Director: Avinash Arun Cast: Amruta Subhash, Archit Deodhar, Parth Bhalerao <img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jun/4-half-stars.gif" alt="" />&nbsp;
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/jun/27killa.jpg" alt="" /> Director Avinash Arun deserves credit for bringing together a near perfect star cast for this delightful film
Quite a few of us, at some point or the other in life, have experienced that highly unsettling feeling when we are suddenly uprooted from our comfort zone and forced to be a part of the world that we don&rsquo;t belong to. Director Avinash Arun makes us face and analyse that uncomfortable feeling all over again, as he simply but effectively narrates the sensitive story of 11-year-old Chinu (Archit Deodhar).
Chinu is going through an emotional turmoil. Soon after losing his father, he&rsquo;s forced to move from Pune to a small town in Konkan, as his mother (Amruta Subhash) is transferred there. Even as he seems mature beyond his years and carries a slight chip on his shoulder for being the big city boy in a small town school, his morbid fear of abandonment and adjusting to the new environment peeks through once too often. His fear is best showcased in a stellar scene shot in a fort that he visits with his friends, but later finds himself alone and lost.
After much struggle, Chinu is just about getting out of &nbsp;his painful phase and warming up to his classmates, when in a heart-breaking development, his mother gets into a spot of trouble in her office for which they might be forced to move to another place.
Arun makes a commendable debut as a director and cinematographer. It is also to his credit that he has brought together a near perfect star cast which includes a delightful bunch of competent child actors (Parth Bhalerao, Gaurish Gawde, Atharva Upasni and others) and a proficient theatre actress Amruta Subhash to play the helpless mother. A script laced with subtle humour and poignant lines (written by Tushaar Paranjape and Upendra Sindhaye) only makes it stronger.
Don&rsquo;t miss this film. It is one of those precious little watches that&rsquo;s capable of giving a quick bout of spring cleaning to your heart, bringing out a few uncomfortable emotions that one otherwise keeps tucked in untouched corners. And if you are lucky, you get a joyride back to your carefree, childhood days too.

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Quite a few of us, at some point or the other in life, have experienced that highly unsettling feeling when we are suddenly uprooted from our comfort zone and forced to be a part of the world that we don&rsquo;t belong to

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