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Milestone begins with a blank screen for precisely half a minute. It’s as though he were emulating Andrei Tarkovsky, who famously explained his ‘dull’ opening shots by saying, “Viewers who walked into the wrong theatre will have time to leave before the main action starts.”
There’s a calming stillness in the frame, one that allows for the film’s moments to really affect you. The film shows that it takes a certain stillness in order to get you moved.
Director Ayr paints the life of a truck driver named Ghalib (Suvinder Vicky), an old-timer with decades of experience in the field. Grieving from the death of his wife, Ghalib has hit the road in an attempt to escape reality.
Milestone, or
Meel Patthar, truck drivers move endlessly, driving through the night on long empty stretches of road, fetching and delivering goods and packages. They travel a lot and see little. It’s a lonely profession and more so for Ghalib (Suvinder Vicky).
The 98-minute Hindi-Punjabi-Kashmiri drama is out on Netflix.
Ghalib a local hero, having clocked 500,000 kilometres of his truck. But he’s also complaining of a backache. He’s world-weary but unrelenting when it comes to picking up the next consignment. He sips from his flask, turns up the volume on the truck’s music system and drives along.