3 Storeys
- Director
- Arjun Mukherjee
- Studio
- Excel EntertainmentB4U Motion Pictures
- Release Date
- 8 March 2018
- Running Time
- 100 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹10.00 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹1.60 Cr
Review
Madhoo Mantena's "3 Storeys" is a film that understands the suffocating weight of secrets—how they fester in the walls of our homes and corrode our relationships from within. The apartment building becomes more than just a setting; it's a character itself, breathing with the desperation of its inhabitants. Each resident carries a wound: Flory's impossible hope, Varsha's quiet anguish in a marriage that has become a prison, Suhail and Malini's love burning against the cold walls of religious divide, and Leela's magnetic presence that disrupts everyone's carefully maintained facades. The performances are uniformly strong, with actors bringing raw authenticity to their emotional struggles. What makes this film genuinely moving is how Mantena refuses to judge his characters—they aren't villains or saints, just people drowning in their own circumstances, reaching for connection in a city that offers none.
Where "3 Storeys" stumbles is in its narrative execution. The interconnected storytelling, meant to reveal profound truths about human connection, often feels contrived rather than organic. The twist that binds all these stories together, while conceptually ambitious, lands with more intellectual weight than emotional resonance. You admire the film's refusal to offer easy answers or redemption, but the fragmented structure sometimes obscures the very human truths it's trying to unearth. It's a film that asks important questions about isolation, desire, and moral compromise, yet
Storyline
So there's this old apartment building in Mumbai called Mayanagar, and it's got this whole bunch of residents living their lives with all these hidden secrets brewing beneath the surface. There's Flory, this widow who's been trying to sell her place forever but can't find anyone willing to pay what she's asking. Then there's Varsha stuck in this miserable marriage with a guy who drinks all day and treats her terribly, even though she's got these lingering feelings for someone from her past. Meanwhile, on another floor, you've got Suhail and Malini who are madly in love but their families are totally against it because they're from different religions. And then there's Leela downstairs who's just this magnetic, flirtatious presence that seems to draw everyone's attention.
The building itself becomes like a pressure cooker where everyone's dealing with their own demons and heartaches. Each person is trapped in their own way, whether it's because of family expectations, past traumas, or toxic relationships they can't seem to escape. You get to know these characters and their struggles pretty intimately as the movie goes on, and you start wondering how all their lives might intersect or what might eventually bring everything crashing down.
The coolest part about this film is how everything is connected through these different perspectives. The narrative plays with how we see and understand each person's story, and there's this twist that ties everything together in a way you probably won't see coming. It's one of those movies that makes you think about how every person in a building or community has their own whole world of pain and secrets going on behind closed doors.
