8 A.M. Metro

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8 A.M. Metro

2023

1h 56m

Drama

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The mundane life of Iravati -- a 29-year-old housewife living in Nanded -- is thrown into mild disarray when she is asked to look after her pregnant sister, Riya, in Hyderabad after complications arise. Triumphing over her irrational fear of traveling alone, she takes on the role of her guardian and caretaker while her brother-in-law, Abhiram, is away for work. Unbeknownst to her, the journey is just the first of many, and there is no smooth sailing. A childhood incident triggers panic attacks and she (literally) latches on to the closest kind stranger; albeit one, who battles demons of his own. Preetam, a seemingly ordinary banker, fosters crippling depression and is haunted by his past. They find solace with each other and forge an unlikely friendship traversing many conversations and a physical as well as metaphorical series of journeys that lead to emotional evolution. They inadvertently give each other the will to truly live. But Preetam harbors a devastating secret that might destroy their relationship and threaten to dismantle everything they believe in if unraveled.

Christopher Machell

CineVue

06/26/2023

2/5

The blandness of the spouses remain but with little dimension, while the leads’ likeability is so doe-eyed and soft-edged as to require regular injections of rote narrative contrivance in place of genuine emotional conflict.

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Joe Muldoon

Battle Royale With Cheese

06/23/2023

Despite teetering towards the edge of becoming overlong, the diaphanous poeticism that permeates every scene, thought, and word, is enough to keep things interesting. In a word: soothing.

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Film Threat

06/20/2023

7.5/10

What enriches this film’s frothy concoction is its strong intellectual underpinnings. The questions raised about how social media has increased public persona versus private interactions carry a lot of weight.

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

06/08/2023

3/5

A valiant effort at showing how a simple act of kindness has the power to change someone's life.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

06/07/2023

3.5/4.0

While 8 A.M. Metro may not be the best film you'll see in 2023, it's a beautiful film that left me contemplating its messages and meditating upon its wisdom.

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Prathyush Parasuraman

Film Companion

06/05/2023

Gulzar’s poetry, which in most minds is an ideal, almost a benchmark, beyond criticism — often beyond clarity — here, comes like suffocating arabesques, pretty sounds, empty words, tired circumstances.

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Gaurav A

06/08/2024

Amazing story and good acting. Now looking for more movies like this.

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Synopsis

The mundane life of Iravati -- a 29-year-old housewife living in Nanded -- is thrown into mild disarray when she is asked to look after her pregnant sister, Riya, in Hyderabad after complications arise. Triumphing over her irrational fear of traveling alone, she takes on the role of her guardian and caretaker while her brother-in-law, Abhiram, is away for work. Unbeknownst to her, the journey is just the first of many, and there is no smooth sailing. A childhood incident triggers panic attacks and she (literally) latches on to the closest kind stranger; albeit one, who battles demons of his own. Preetam, a seemingly ordinary banker, fosters crippling depression and is haunted by his past. They find solace with each other and forge an unlikely friendship traversing many conversations and a physical as well as metaphorical series of journeys that lead to emotional evolution. They inadvertently give each other the will to truly live. But Preetam harbors a devastating secret that might destroy their relationship and threaten to dismantle everything they believe in if unraveled.

Director: Raj Rachakonda
Producer: Kishore Ganji, Raj Rachakonda
Screenwriter: Raj Rachakonda
Distributor: Platoon Distribution
Production Co: Studio 99
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): May 19, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 56m