Tarla Movie Review: A Light-Hearted Drama Which is Not Overly Dramatic | Zee5

Cast: Huma Qureshi, Sharib Hashmi, Purnendu Bhattacharya, Veenah Naair, Bharti Achrekar

Director: Piyush Gupta

Streaming Platform: Zee5

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3/5 (three stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Celebrity chef Tarla Dalal. You must have heard his name somewhere. A film has come into his life, the name is Tarla. We have seen it, let’s tell you how it was. Are there good stories or not… can’t good desi and original stories be made. Is there only one set formula for acting? Don’t such films come on OTT now which can be watched without any hesitation with the family. The answer to all these questions is the film Tarla on ZEE5, which is the story of Padma Shri awardee chef Tarla Dalal and a story that will touch your heart.

‘I want to do something in life… but don’t know what to do.’ This is the indecisiveness with which almost every person struggles at one point in life. In women, this percentage is slightly higher, because in the search for ‘something to do’, they do not even know when they start playing their other roles. The film Tarla begins with the hesitation of this ‘Kuch Karna Hai’, which is the story of a housewife Tarla becoming ‘Padma Shri Tarla Dalal‘. This film with Huma Qureshi and Sharib Hashmi in the lead roles has been released on ZEE5 today i.e., on 7th July. Let us tell you whether you should watch this film or not.

Tarla Movie Review: The Story Plot

The story of this film is based on the life of Tarla Dalal and the story begins with Tarla‘s (Huma Qureshi) college. Sitting in the class, Tarla wants to do something different in life. But as soon as he reaches home, he comes to know that engineer boy Nalin Dalal (Sharib Hashmi) is coming to see him. Tarla doesn’t want to get married, wants to do something but no one has time to wait for her ‘something’. And thus, Tarla gets married to Nalin. But even after 12 years of marriage and after becoming the mother of three children, Tarla does not understand what she wants to do, and this keeps her restless. Later on, it is revealed in the film that there is a problem in the marriage of many girls just because they do not know how to cook. Tarla teaches him to cook, and his marriage is fixed. In this process, Tarla comes to know what she has to do, and she moves forward.

The story of the film is about a woman who is about to get married. But he has to do something in life. But he has no idea of ​​this ‘something’. She is looking for a suitable profession for herself. This is a matter of those times when it was a mandatory condition for a girl to cook for marriage. Tarla is an expert in cooking. That’s why he also got married. 12 years have passed since the marriage. Have got three kids. But even now Tarla is still searching for her ‘something’. According to Tarla, even his scrap dealer is clear that what to do in life. But Tarla has no idea. In such a situation, he sees a ray of hope. She is supported in this by her husband Nalin Kumar, an engineer in Mumbai’s top factory. Tarla‘s career takes off. But there are many breakers in the way of this vehicle. The biggest breaker is Tarla being a woman. A moment comes when she wants to leave her career in the middle. At this time, she says to the woman sitting in a big position on the TV channel, “I am doing what any other woman in the world would do for her family.” On this, the woman says,” No, you are doing what no man in the world would do”.

Tarla Movie Review and Analysis

There are many emotions and stages in the story of Ragda Patties like Huma Qureshi‘s performance. After catching the pace in the first few minutes, the story starts connecting you with itself. This film by director Piyush Gupta is the story of a normal family and you see the same simplicity in the whole story. Nothing dramatic has been done forcibly in the film. However, in some places, the direction is a bit lax. Huma Qureshi is in her character. Huma has given great performances like ‘Maharani’, ‘Monica, Oh My Darling’ and ‘Double XL’ in the past and this film is also in the same category. In this film, Huma has left no stone unturned to capture the spirit of Tarla Dalal.

Sharib Hashmi has become Huma’s husband in this film. Sharib is an amazing performer. In this film, Sharib’s silence in some scenes and his eyes in some scenes will do wonders which people might not be able to do even by speaking. Thousands of things are going on in Nalin’s heart, but he is not saying anything. Sharib has done the work of telling those thousands of things with his eyes. Sharib has made Nalin’s character very lovable. Maybe, people start praying for such a husband. Ask any woman, from Indra Nooyi to your close aunty or your mother, there will always be one thing common in their success or life story. They always have to juggle between their dreams and family responsibilities. This story is also no different from that. In one scene, Tarla‘s mother asks, ‘There was no flour in the house, you know. Tarla says, ‘Nalin le to aaye’. Then Tarla‘s mother says, ‘This is not the work of Nalin Kumar…’ When you see this success story, you will feel as if every woman’s story is like this.

It happens with women-centric content that portrays men as villains. But this is not the case with this film. It runs by creating a balance. If at any place she attacks the male-dominated mentality, then the very next moment she also presents her logic. It is to be understood here that it does not make a man, it makes a malevolent thinking a villain. The film Tarla does not run only on the life of Tarla Dalal. Along with this, she also gives equal importance to her husband’s life. To be a feminist in a male-dominated society, society keeps telling them at every step. Nalin is proud of leaving his job to support his wife. But this pride has been shown very minutely by director Piyush Gupta. The reason is that the man hidden inside this pride, we see on the screen. Mane Tarla‘s husband Nalin gives her ‘permission’ to do everything. It means that somewhere in this permission the male ego is hidden.

The film fails in one respect. I think telling everything through dialogue cannot be good cinema. When Nalin accepts everything, it would have been better if it was shown through some gesture. Since cinema is a visual medium. Hence its visual power should have been exploited in a better way. Piyush Gupta and Gautam Ved have written the screenplay of the film. It’s a good thing, realism. This is also a bad thing. It happens with most biopic films that they are over-dramatized. But it is not so here. As any incident happens in life, the same happens here. But I felt that to keep something too real, the drama completely disappeared from the film. There should have been some drama. Although this is my personal opinion, you may have something else.

Since there is no innovation in the story of the film. That’s why there is a need for innovation in the screenplay. But it is not so here. We have seen many such stories. And seen in the same way, as shown in Tarla. Yes, wherever food comes in the frame, greed comes. There is a scene in which Nalin eats non-veg while hiding from Tarla. Amazing filming. The mouths of non-vegetarians sitting on the other side of the screen should be watering. The same is the case with every frame in which food is involved in any way.

Tarla Movie Review: The Last Words

The role of Tarla Dalal is played by Huma Qureshi in the movie. She keeps trying something new. He has done exactly the same in this film as well. She has also been successful in this new endeavor. His body language is good. Just a little more work on the Gujarati accent would have been fun. But overall, it’s a great job. Sharib Hashmi is in the role of Nalin Kumar. Very good acting. This means this guy is yet to get his due in Bollywood. We are not able to use such artists well. Just give them a side roll and leave them. Sharib should get more work, lots of work.