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'''''Manorama Six Feet Under''''' is a 2007 Indian [[thriller (genre)|thriller]] film directed and co-written by [[Navdeep Singh (director)|Navdeep Singh]]. The film features [[Abhay Deol]], [[Raima Sen]] and [[Gul Panag]] in the lead roles. The film released on 21 September 2007. It follows an amateur detective in a small sleepy town from [[Rajasthan]] who finds himself caught in a web of lies, deceit and murder. The movie is based on classic [[American film|American]] [[neo-noir]] film, ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]'' (1974) | '''''Manorama Six Feet Under''''' is a 2007 Indian [[thriller (genre)|thriller]] film directed and co-written by [[Navdeep Singh (director)|Navdeep Singh]]. The film features [[Abhay Deol]], [[Raima Sen]] and [[Gul Panag]] in the lead roles. The film released on 21 September 2007. It follows an amateur detective in a small sleepy town from [[Rajasthan]] who finds himself caught in a web of lies, deceit and murder. The movie is based on classic [[American film|American]] [[neo-noir]] film, ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]'' (1974), with the basic premise being similar to the original, despite obvious changes in the representation of characters and some key plot points.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/lsquoManorama-Six-Feet-Underrsquo-on-Rosebowl/article15375965.ece|title= 'Manorama Six Feet Under' on Rosebowl |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> The makers of ''Manorama Six Feet Under'' acknowledged the inspiration from the original by playing the sequence where [[Jack Nicholson]]'s character gets his nose slashed on the main character's (Satyaveer) television.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/mamta-d/dial-n-for-noir_b_7007042.html|title= Dial N for Noir |accessdate=30 July 2018}}</ref> | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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Sheetal calls him. She is still scared but somehow warms to him and asks if she can stay with him for a few days. Seeing as Nimmi has returned to Rohtak (her parents’ house) for Diwali, Satyaveer agrees. Sheetal moves in for a little while. Around this time, Satyaveer attends a rally function with Rathore in attendance. He follows Rathore and discovers that Rathore receives regular medication from a doctor for an unknown ailment. He also spots the woman who visited him on the night Satyaveer took the photos. | Sheetal calls him. She is still scared but somehow warms to him and asks if she can stay with him for a few days. Seeing as Nimmi has returned to Rohtak (her parents’ house) for Diwali, Satyaveer agrees. Sheetal moves in for a little while. Around this time, Satyaveer attends a rally function with Rathore in attendance. He follows Rathore and discovers that Rathore receives regular medication from a doctor for an unknown ailment. He also spots the woman who visited him on the night Satyaveer took the photos. | ||
He follows the woman and makes contact with her. She lives with the doctor Anil | He follows the woman and makes contact with her. She lives with the doctor Anil Poddar. She turns out to be Sameera Rathore, the illegitimate daughter of Rathore. She was trying to get Rathore to accept her as a daughter. Satyaveer begins piecing the parts together. However, when Satyaveer visits the doctor, he finds that the doctor and Sameera have both been brutally murdered. There he and Sheetal discuss what to do next and they almost kiss but his wife calls him and he takes her call immediately remembering his marriage. He runs to the children's home where he discovers that Sheetal has actually been dead for around 8–10 days. | ||
Arriving home, he finds that the woman masquerading as Sheetal is neither surprised nor scared. She blames him for the act she had to up (as Sheetal), and she directs him to meet Rathore. Rathore demands the photos. Satyaveer turns over the photos he had taken. Not surprisingly, Rathore is not the least bit interested in photos of him having an argument with his biological daughter. It turns out that Neetu (the girl pretending to be Sheetal) is a concubine for Rathore. Rathore now openly threatens him and asks that he hand over those photos. Satyaveer returns home. He scans one of the photos he had taken and suddenly finds a clue in it. This clue leads him to what Manorama had said to him on the night she died. The clue was that Manorama from his book died at page 32. He uses the clues to land up in the room of a small hotel in town, where he discovers a shocking set of photos in a packet cached behind the light switchboard. | Arriving home, he finds that the woman masquerading as Sheetal is neither surprised nor scared. She blames him for the act she had to up (as Sheetal), and she directs him to meet Rathore. Rathore demands the photos. Satyaveer turns over the photos he had taken. Not surprisingly, Rathore is not the least bit interested in photos of him having an argument with his biological daughter. It turns out that Neetu (the girl pretending to be Sheetal) is a concubine for Rathore. Rathore now openly threatens him and asks that he hand over those photos. Satyaveer returns home. He scans one of the photos he had taken and suddenly finds a clue in it. This clue leads him to what Manorama had said to him on the night she died. The clue was that Manorama from his book died at page 32. He uses the clues to land up in the room of a small hotel in town, where he discovers a shocking set of photos in a packet cached behind the light switchboard. | ||
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[[Category:Indian detective films]] | [[Category:Indian detective films]] | ||
[[Category:Films set in Rajasthan]] | [[Category:Films set in Rajasthan]] | ||