Interestingly, Maras arguably gives more grace notes to the terrorists rather than the mostly one-dimensional staff and guests, be it pure delight in discovering a hotel toilet (“They have a machine to flush their shit”), a jape over eating pork, or revealing they are just frightened kids at heart in a moving telephone call home to dad. On the hotel staff, we meet quick thinking waiter Arjun ( Dev Patel), and head chef Hemant Oberoi (Anupam Kher, excellent playing a real-life figure), constantly telling his staff, “The guest is god.” The guests getting the five-star treatment include newlyweds David ( Armie Hammer) and Zahra ( Nazanin Boniadi), whose infant baby is looked after by nanny Sally (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), and Jason Isaacs as a lecherous Russian businessman, who starts the movie as comic relief but eventually gets to show different, more caring colours. The movie begins like classic disaster movie fare, introducing the disparate major players whose fates will become inextricably intertwined. THE TOWERING INFERNAL - My Review of HOTEL MUMBAI (3 Stars) The disaster movies of the 70s worked as fantasy spectacle, allowing us to face certain fears within the comfort of a sometimes soapy.
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