He also confides in his brother-in-law and best friend, the loutish but generally well-meaning local cop Brij Mohan (Vinay Pathak). Satyaveer snaps a few pictures of this exchange and hands over the roll to Mrs. Rathore rebukes the woman and turns her away. He stealthily stakes out Rathore's manor. Satyaveer accepts the job in spite of Nimmi's reproach. Captivated by the ingenuity of the detective Raghu, the principal character of the novel, she hopes to secure Satyaveer's assistance in applying the same ingenuity to procure photographic evidence of her husband's affair. She says she is a big fan of Satyaveer's novel. Rathore, the wife of the Irrigation Minister (and former Maharaja, presumably prior to Independence) P. A well dressed, affluent woman presents herself as Mrs. Satyaveer, an aspiring writer whose only novel Manorama sank without a trace, laments about how he had once wished to be famous but is now resigned to a banal and unremarkable existence. Nimmi(Gul Panag) broods over how she wishes she had married a richer fellow. As he returns to his irritable and nagging wife Nimmi and their young son, we learn that Satyaveer has just been implicated in a small bribery scandal at work. He compares Lakhot – dry, desolate and despondent – to the general downturn in his own life. The narrator is Satyaveer Singh Randhawa (Abhay Deol), a down-on-his-luck public works engineer.
The film opens with a narrative about a nondescript town called Lakhot in Rajasthan, India. In a cinema-noir style, the makers of Manorama Six Feet Under acknowledge the inspiration from the original by playing the sequence where Jack Nicholson's character gets his nose slashed on the main character's (Satyaveer) television. This movie is based on Chinatown (1974) by Roman Polanski, with the basic premise being similar to the original, despite changes in the representation of characters and some key plot points. The movie is a neo-noir with an amateur detective in a small sleepy town from Rajasthan who finds himself caught in a web of lies, deceit and murder. The film features Abhay Deol, Raima Sen and Gul Panag in the lead roles. Manorama Six Feet Under is a 2007 Indian thriller film directed and co-written by Navdeep Singh.
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