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'Sur: The Melody of Love'

By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

Director Tanuja Chandra’s Sur is a touching human drama that explores the subtle nuances of a relationship between a middle-aged music teacher and his young female student.

Vikramaditya Singh (Lucky Ali) is a music composer and teacher who runs a small musical school. Although a singer himself, he is not satisfied with his compositions. He nurses the dream of finding a great student and polishing his or her talent.

Vikramaditya’s

search ends at Tina Marie (Gauri Karnik) whom he hears singing at the Sunday church choir. Captivated by Tina’s nightingale voice, he takes her under his wing and spruces her singing talent. Meanwhile, the two develop a special fondness for each other.

Although Vikramaditya is more aged than she is, Tina gets infatuated with him. Slowly, he moulds her into a brilliant singer and she becomes a better vocalist than he is.

In spite of Vikramaditya's dream coming true he starts feeling jealous towards Tina after realizing her true potential and talent. Lest he becomes an underdog to her, he starts undermining her confidence, dominating and overpowering her.

He cuts an album in which he takes Tina’s help but forces her into sidelines, taking all the credit himself. Shattered by her music teacher’s indifference and his desire to hog the limelight, Tina willy-nilly packs her bags and returns to her old life.

After Tina is gone and Vikramaditya has all the fame that he ever wanted. But his conscience begins to twinge him. Realizing how tough and unjust he has been on the poor little girl, Vikram goes back to Tina's town to get her back to the school.

But this time Vikramaditya’s search leads him to a Tina who is completely changed. He discovers that she has left her sister’s bar, where she used to work, and is living in the church where she is contemplating becoming a nun.

Vikramaditya begs her to come back and sing but to no use. After repeated pleas from Vikramaditya she relents and agrees to sing only once with him. Just seconds before the performance Vikramaditya goes missing. The management panics and requests Tina to sing. Tina finally sings and the crowd is mesmerized by her voice.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the parking lot Vikramaditya switches on his radio and hears Tina sing. Tears roll down his eyes as he realizes that he has finally achieved what he had initially set out for. Tina has got what she truly deserves.

Sur is singer Lucky Ali’s acting debut. And, despite being a rookie in this field, Lucky gives a noticeable performance with his emotive appeal and articulation with words.

Pitched opposite him, Gauri Karnik too impresses with a balanced performance.

The film takes off well in the first half but begins to drag post- interval. Even the sentiments depicted in the second half are mushy and simply fail to tug any strings at heart.

The film is produced by Pooja Bhatt. It also stars Simone Singh, Achint Kaur, Ehsaan Khan, Divya Dutta and Harsh Vasishth in important roles.

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