Such A Long Journey is a pretty interesting film that takes a VERY common theme, e.g. Look How the Indians Live! Adds an intriguing dash of espionage and winds up in a somewhat unfulfilling ride through an exotic landscape. Om Puri. Uh oh, is there 2 more deadly words in the actor's canon? Plays a desk executive at a bank whose boring home life is somewhat interrupted by a reintroduction of someone important to him in his earlier years. His friend takes advantage of this to get him to do some work for an anti-government group, mainly to slowly deposit money into their account. Puri is excited about this opportunity to add excitement into his life. His wife isn't so sure. All around this framework of a plot we have other characters that significantly affect Puri's home life as well, his friends at work, the local village idiot, his neighbors, his family, etc etc. I have no idea what my problem with Om Puri is, but I can never warm up to the guy, and that somewhat affected me enjoying this movie somewhat. But I did like his performance, along with many of the cast. Although the plot really drags at times and the ending is almost too hunky dory everything is fine now, there's a lot of richness in this film to match the awesome cinematography.
Review of Such a Long Journey
