By Rediff, February 2, 2007 - 06:38 IST
5 of 7 people found this review helpful The stories are entertaining in themselves, like the one where a beggar child spends his hard earned money on a fairness cream. But at some point, one wonders when the disconnected episodes would stop and the film would begin.
By WithoutGivingTheMovieAway, February 3, 2007 - 04:53 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful By interval time, you are settling down to the idea of having a story-less movie, saying to yourself “oh, I see, this is one of those slice-of-life things”. Then slowly you see the story emerging and very smoothly translating into a compact climax. The ending had a punch with just the right amount of drama and not much ado.
By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, February 3, 2007 - 04:59 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful The first half of the film simply flashes through with no story at all. It is a relentless introduction of stock characters who seem to have no flesh and form.
By Indiaglitz, February 3, 2007 - 05:13 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful ‘Traffic Signal’ moves forward on the steam of the ‘Nukkad’ like episodes of these nondescript characters. How the builder lobby affects the plight of these dwellers forms the rest of the film. At the end of it all, you are left with little rag picker Chinnaswami who keeps calling the Tsunami relief camp in Chennai hoping to get some news about his family swept away in the disastrous calamity.
By Indya, February 3, 2007 - 05:23 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful Silsila (Kunal) is their manager who collects a part of their daily income and gives it to his boss Jafar (D.Santosh) who delivers it to his boss, Bhaijaan (Sudhir Mishra) who in turn shares it with his big boss operating from Dubai. All part of a yearly 180 crore business...
By Ibnlive, February 3, 2007 - 12:06 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful Sitting in that darkened cinema hall, watching Madhur Bhandarkar's Traffic Signal, I felt like someone had slapped me across the face really hard. I think most people who will pay to watch this film will come away feeling cheated because it's very clear that there's nothing to this film. No plot, no treatment, no performances.
By Mid-Day, February 5, 2007 - 11:00 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful The trouble with Traffic Signal is that it seems like a car stuck in a jam. The story moves slowly, painfully so. The director spends so much time establishing the stories of the characters, that he forgets that they are there to do precisely that — tell the story.
By Apunkachoice, February 3, 2007 - 05:01 IST
At many instances it appears that Madhur wanted to shock his audience by bringing forth certain aspects of lives of these people which laymen may never have known. For instance, the man who begs during day goes to see a movie in a posh multiplex at night. Or beggerboys buying fairness cream from their day’s labour. Or a gay who offers his services to those willing to take.
By Bollyvista, February 3, 2007 - 05:17 IST
The first half of the film only introduces all the characters. The twist in the tale comes in the second half when an engineer (Manoj Joshi) is shot dead by goons. Although a morose sort of film, a couple of tracks are good; the kid who is on a mission to make his skin fair, the Ranveer-Konkona track, including Ranveer's death, Manoj Joshi’s killing, the beggar and the rich Gujarati businessman.
By MTV India, February 3, 2007 - 05:24 IST
The traffic signal looks clearly like a film set. It has some good sequences, some over-the-top tapori lingo, a political angle for seriousness and excessive melodrama...
