Review of Maska

Positives:

• Concept: I really liked the idea of surrounding the move around generation gap and the typical battle between chasing your dreams vs finding what you are good at. We need more movies like these, instead of typical chase your dream Bollywood style movies.
• Acting by some actors: I found Prit Kamani a refreshing presence. He knows how to keep the audience captivated and the same time, puts himself in different situations pretty well. Manish Koirala again proves herself as why she is one of the finest actresses rom 90s. Her screen presence made me miss my mom and that is a testament to her acting skills.
• Setup: Really liked the set design for cafe. It feels authentic from all angles, including the customers.

Negatives:

• Plot: The second half of the film, when the lead has to undergo transformation wasn't convincing at all. It almost felt like some of the moments were forced into the plot. The whole subplot of lead's romance with Shirley Setia was totally unconvincing, which brings me to biggest flaw of the movie.
• Shirley Setia: She might be a good singer, but as an actress she flopped pretty badly. The garden moment was supposed to high point of the character, but she couldn't bring out the emotions, neither can she bring out her emotions towards Rumi in the bar scene. Please Shirley, go back to singing, you are way better at it.
• Unnecessary sequences: There is a sequence where Romi goes nude to his audition, that sequence doesn't lead anywhere and feels like a wasted scene and it isn't clear to me what this scene was supposed to prove.

Just like somebody else mentioned, it is a feel good movie, but don't expect this movie to be one of the best movies you have ever watched. For a platform, that gave us drive, this is a still a way better movie to watch.