Adil Hussain in ‘Max, Min and Meowzaki’
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Against the backdrop of a soft monsoon, Max, Min & Meowzaki unfolds as an elegant symphony of human vulnerability. Waiting in the wings for quite some time, at the heart of this coming-of-age, slice-of-life drama are three generations of single men, each carrying a heavy yet silent sorrow. They are men who have forgotten how to speak to one another. Yet to recover from the death of his mother, jingle singer Mahesh or Max (Siddharth Menon), is negotiating with the wreckage of a love story that has just collapsed into a bittersweet breakup with Minara Hussain, or Min (Medha Shankr). His father, Ramesh (Adil Hussain), a man tightly wound in rigid armour, is suffocating under a sleepless, unconfessed grief for his deceased wife and societal biases. The grandfather, an eminent Carnatic singer, Sridhar (Nassar) navigates the fading twilight of his memories, carrying a guilt of not being able to take his son along in the song of life.When the relationship between Max and Min shatters, they argue over their belongings. The biggest battle is fought over Meowzaki, a rescued cat named in honour of Hayao Miyazaki, the master of cinematic wonder. Max, though severely allergic to the animal, fights for custody.Max, Min And Meowzaki (Hindi)Director: Padmakumar NarasimhamurthyDuration: 138 minutesCast: Siddharth Menon, Medha Shankr, Adil Hussain, Mandira Bedi, Nassar, Nafisa AliSynopsis: Grieving his mother’s death and a sudden breakup, a young man reluctantly cares for his Muslim ex-girlfriend’s left-behind cat.This beautiful, illogical choice becomes the catalyst for the entire family’s transformation. Max shares his grief with an intuitive cat-sitter, Carol (Vidhatri Bandi), and Ramesh slowly sheds his defenses in a quiet therapy room to Reiki practitioner Dhaara (Mandira Bedi). Meanwhile, Sridhar finds a poetic piece of joy in an old age home alongside Jennifer (Nafisa Ali), a woman whose memory is slipping away.
