{"id":5769,"date":"2016-05-27T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:20:44","slug":"hotel-mumbai-review-26-11-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5769","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Mumbai Review: A Hollow Recreation of the 26\/11 Terror Attacks Limited By its White Gaze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s almost naive to expect a film, compressed within a runtime of two hours, to encapsulate the entirety of the 12 separate terror attacks carried out by the Lashkar-E-Taiba across Mumbai back in 2008. <\/span>At best, it can offer a snapshot: either by playing out like a rushed overview of the harrowing events of 26\/11, or by zooming in on one solitary location. In <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, debutant filmmaker Anthony Maras adopts the latter approach and contains the bulk of his film inside the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/26-11-terrorist-attacks-mumbai-police-taj\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taj Mahal Hotel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, focusing exclusively on the trapped guests and hotel staff. Even though <em>Hotel Mumbai<\/em> opens with Maras briefly tracking the terrorists as they start firing at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and bombing Caf\u00e9 Leopold, these disjointed sequences act more as a launchpad for the real horrors of the night that unfold at the five-star hotel.<\/span>\n\nThere are two ways to look at Maras\u2019 and co-writer John Collee\u2019s decision to use the 116-year-old Taj Mahal Hotel as the backdrop for <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On one hand, it makes perfect narrative sense: The legend of how the Taj staff risked their own lives to ensure that the guests stuck inside were rescued to safety would be unbelievable if it weren&#8217;t true. Even more so, the hotel\u2019s resurrection \u2014 by the end of the attack, the walls of the Taj were bullet-riddled and its domes were on fire \u2014 a month after the tragic incident perfectly embodies the indomitable spirit of Mumbai. There\u2019s certainly a story in here, rife with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/last-show-chandan-cinema-mumbai-single-screens\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cinematic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> potential. Capturing the mayhem of 26\/11 through the carnage at The Taj is as much a testament to the unpreparedness of the city as it is to its resilience. For much of its runtime, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wants to be the movie that recognises this particular heroism <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that weathered the brunt of terrorism.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nYet, on the other hand, the film\u2019s fascination with confining its narrative to the Taj resembles the same reasons that might have prompted the terrorists to target the hotel in the first place. The hotel offers an indoor setting, that would comparatively be easier to control for the killers as well as the filmmakers. It\u2019s also a symbol of opulence, that signifies one end of the city\u2019s extremes. This made it the preferred spot for the elite, which invariably included expats and foreigners \u2014 important people whose suffering would be more valuable as both hostages and as protagonists. <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reinforces that thought by placing wealthy foreigners at the centre of its story, effectively taking a myopic view of the tragedy. The trouble isn\u2019t that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">serves very little purpose other than being a compelling recreation, or that it recreates only one side of the picture. It\u2019s that Maras\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/veep-climax-enjoyed\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gaze<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which flits between being questionable and ignorant, stubbornly dresses it up as the entire picture.<\/span>\n\n<i>Hotel Mumbai <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deals in black and white when it comes to its protagonists; the lines are clearly demarcated between victims and saviours. The victims are, for the most part, white: There\u2019s the rakish Russian (John Isaacs), the frightened British-Muslim heiress (Nazanin Boniadi), her loving American husband who also doubles up as the daring dad (a wasted Armie Hammer), rounded off by the loyal nanny (Tilda-Cobham Hervey) armed with a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/first-person\/baby-face-adult-struggles\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> baby.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There\u2019s even an old white woman, who exists to remind audiences that racism exists (a classic case of noble intentions gone tacky).\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56712\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1574951649.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel mumbai\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Even the religion chosen for Patel\u2019s character feels like a cliche: Sikhs are after all, considered the model of magnanimity across the world and instances of their kind-heartedness have by now become a headline staple.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder Road Pictures<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nOn the other side are the saviours: the nameless bunch of hotel employees who make up the first batch of victims when the terrorists start firing indiscriminately; Hemant Oberoi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/naseeruddin-shah-anupam-kher-everything-that-is-wrong-in-being-just-a-tolerant-nation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anupam Kher<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the calm head-chef who holds fort at the hotel\u2019s Chambers Lounge and leads the operation to rescue over 100 guests; the underdog Sikh waiter (a sincere Dev Patel) who becomes his second-in-command; and the two inspectors who venture inside the hotel out of moral compulsion despite knowing that they\u2019d be outnumbered. Each of them resemble one-dimensional character attributes necessary in a terse suspense thriller instead of being regular humans whose impulses get the better of their rational sides under such circumstances. It\u2019s perhaps why the film feels so passive: There\u2019s very little for a viewer to do other than wait for the body-count to escalate.<\/span>\n\nThe unfamiliarity of the makers with the cultural reverberations of the 26\/11 terror attacks remain a glaring flaw throughout <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> runtime. At best, Maras films an action thriller that could have easily unfolded inside the confines of any five-star hotel \u2014 India, as a setting, is almost incidental to the plot, and worse, the tragedy. Take for instance the fact that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is unable to grasp the complexities of the circumstances at hand. The dichotomy of the 26\/11 attacks reducing Indians as both victims and heroes eludes Maras. Most of the characters in the film are essentially composites save for Kher\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/vivek-oberoi-saathiya-company-pm-modi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oberoi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who is based on a real person, and yet the film underserves his motivations. It concludes that Oberoi was pushed to stay back during the attacks when he had the choice to leave solely because of the Taj adage, \u201cGuests are God,&#8221; which in itself is a simplistic reading that reduces the distinctive psyche of the hotel staff <\/span>to a collective instead of investigating them as individuals.\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Hotel Mumbai is not only reluctant to hold anyone accountable but it is also devoid of any depth.<\/blockquote>\nOn more than one occasion, <em>Hotel Mumbai<\/em> suffers from the classic outsider-making-a-movie-about-India syndrome. For one, it eschews articulating any larger commentary, which is self-defeating given that the 26\/11 terror attacks are entertwined with its social reverberations. The casting of Dev Patel, a British-American, as a Sikh waiter is also a dead giveaway. After <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slumdog Millionaire <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lion,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Patel has become synonymous with this prototype of the kind of films that exoticises Indians. Even the religion chosen for Patel\u2019s character feels like a cliche: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/fixo-kadha-prasad-sikhism-turban-gurdwara\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sikhs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are after all, considered the model of magnanimity across the world and instances of their kind-heartedness have by now become a headline staple. Writing a saviour who is recognisable by his religion is an odd move, given that the biggest takeaway from the ingenious rescue operation led by the Taj employees was that it blurred the lines between class and religion. This is perhaps, the most glaring flaw of <em>Hotel Mumbai:<\/em> Its existence doesn&#8217;t serve the people whom the attacks affected the most. Worse, its existence refuses to even understand them. This can be traced to the fact that Maras isn&#8217;t from India, which acts like a double-edged sword: <\/span>The director\u2019s distance from the tragedy guarantees that there is no overt whitewashing of the lapses of the city\u2019s security forces in preventing such a tragedy (The assault was in part, prolonged by the delay of the arrival of National Security Guard forces from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/delhi-smog-odd-even-pollution-air-quality-index-beijing-haze\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). But on the other hand, it\u2019s this distance that is behind the film\u2019s superficial gaze. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is not only reluctant to hold anyone accountable but it is also devoid of any depth. It&#8217;s visible even in how the film frames the terrorists: Maras is sympathetic to them, implying that these were young Muslim men brainwashed into being ruthless killers but it remains unclear how much blame he believes they should be burdened with.\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThat\u2019s not to say that <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotel Mumbai <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">isn\u2019t technically compelling or moving \u2014 Maras displays a judicious use of space that enhances the claustrophobia of being trapped without an exit in sight. The taut editing and the kinetic cinematography which is intercut with real-life footage guarantee that the film replicates the tensions of the attacks. But without any singular direction, it articulates nothing more. Even when the assault is over, there is no telling of the gravity of its aftermath. Even considering the restrictions of the medium, it\u2019s not unreasonable to expect that a movie that mines a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/politics\/aligarh-muslim-university-banaras-hindu-university-terrorists-students-sedition\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">terrorist <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attack, which left 174 people dead and wounded 300, for entertainment, to at least have something to say.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotel Mumbai makes the mistake of placing wealthy foreigners at the centre of its story, effectively taking a myopic view of the tragedy. 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