FLAWED YET HEART-WARMING
Hindi films about the elderly are almost always focussed on suffering—uncaring children, loss of loved ones, illness and the fear of mortality etc. Such preoccupations are no doubt inevitable with advancing years but our cinema doesn’t allow characters to live, grieve or die with dignity like in Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012), which achieves all of the above to devastating effect. Writer-director Sanjay Tripathy’s Club 60 manages it in parts (although any comparison with Amour is inappropriate); but the good parts work as much on account of the lead pair’s restrain as the sensitive delineation of these scenes.
