Amongst everything else, Serious men is a serious take on parenting. Here's Why!
Not very often do we come across a mainstream Bollywood film which is a well meaning social satire but in doing so, also highlights the cracks and crevices existing within the four walls of human households, which comprise the fundamental building blocks of the society. An ingenious commentary on hierarchies of caste and class alongside perils of economic and intellectual inadequacies, Serious Men the film inspired from the highly acclaimed book of the same name by Manu Joseph, at its core is a father-son relationship. For the lack of predisposed formulas without a hit: flop ratio, parenting is a difficult territory to navigate, a problem more advertantly manifested in the quotidian lives of lower middle class households where children are an accessory for an upward mobility. When Nawaz playing Ayyan Mani deploys his son as a tool for channelling his personal ambitions, he believes that he is doing his child a favour, notwithstanding the unforeseeable collateral damage. Even within h
