Dombivali Fast

Dombivli Fast
Directed by	Nishikant Kamat
Produced by	Ramakant Gaikwad
Written by	story Nishikanth Kamath screenplay Nishikanth Kamath, Bal dialogues Sanjay Pawar
Starring	Sandeep Kulkarni, Shilpa Tulaskar, Sandesh Jadhav
Music by	soundtrack Sanjay Mourya, Alwyn Rego background score Sameer Phatarpekar
Cinematography	Sanjay Jadhav
Editing by	Amit Pawar
Release date(s)	2005
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Dombivli Fast (Marathi: ङोंबिवली फास्ट) is a critically acclaimed Marathi film by director Nishikant Kamat. It is the story of a middle class bank employee, Madhav Apte, who becomes so disgusted with the corruption he faces in his day to day life that he loses it one day and become a vigilante. The film stars Sandeep Kulkarni, Shilpa Tulaskar and Sandesh Jadhav.

Kamat remade the film in Tamil as Evano Oruvan with R. Madhavan playing the lead.

Awards and Storyline

• 2006 Star Screen Awards - Best Actor Male (Marathi) - Sandeep Kulkarni

A lower-middle age house in the Mumbai Suburb of Dombivli, an alarm rings in the morning, the household goes into a frenzy of activities where the man of the house, Madhav Shreedhar Apte gets ready for work, goes to work travelling in the Mumbai Locals, works and then comes back in the evening, feeds his young daughter and then goes to sleep. The next morning the same routine starts again, and the next morning.

The Marathi movie “Dombivli Fast” (DF)starts with the above routine scene about a middle class home but ends with the most under-rated climax of all, simple yet hard-hitting.

Madhav Apte is a common man with strong principles. He has strong values and he does not believe in bending any rules for anybody, even when the future of his children is involved. He fights with people around when he sees injustice and corruption, which include his colleagues, his boss, the shop keepers, man who delivers water in a water tanker, school principal and even his wife. His principles and his behavior is a cause of fights between his wife and him. She is tired of him only preaching of changing the world but not doing anything about it.

He is pushed to a corner by everybody who finds his policy of righted ness too difficult to handle and one day he snaps. He goes on a rampage trying to do right, everything that goes against his principles and then starts a mayhem on the street of Mumbai, ultimately ending in a tragic climax.

The story is very similar to Michael Douglas’s starrer Falling Down but Dombivali Fast stands out because of good acting and brilliant direction. There are many characters in the movie but the three main characters are Madhav Apte, His wife and a police Inspector.

The film has a cult status in Marathi cinema.

External links

• Dombivali Fast at the Internet Movie Database
• New York Times Review of 'Dombivli Fast'
• An interview with Sandeep Kulkarni