My Friend Pinto Movie Review

It's not pretentious. It's a just a simple narration, directed with the singular intent of entertaining and enacted with finesse. Raghav Dar's MY FRIEND PINTO gives you a slice of Mumbai, served clean without the accompaniment of blood and gore. Fresh would be the right way to describe this film in one word.

Everything happens in one night and the lives of the characters are interwoven to bring it to a cute crescendo towards the grand finale. The few dances on show are well-choreographed and the music, foot-tapping. In the end, it's not Pinto's friend who introduces him as 'My Friend Pinto' but the others he has met a few hours ago, while his friend looks on from the background.

Sameer (Arjun Mathur) and Michael Pinto (Prateik Babbar) are school buddies. While Pinto lives in Goa, Sameer is now married and living in Mumbai. Caught up with the pressures of making life 'happen', he fails to correspond with Pinto who has been writing letters faithfully for the past 10 years or so. Most of the letters have never even been opened by Sameer. Given this background, Sam is unaware of what Pinto is going through - He does not know that he has lost his mother.