This thread discusses the Content article: Welcome to Sajjanpur (dir. Shyam Benegal)

ahh cool. This comes as a pleasant surprise. Should watch it soon.

Saw this on Friday and agree with your review. Thought the supporting cast was a lot more interesting than Mahadev and the ending seemed to just slide into sentimentality. Still, pretty good but could have done without a couple of the Bollywood songs. They just completely broke the flow of the film for me. Some very cool performances from Yashpal Sharma, the actor who played Munni Bhai and I thought Amrita Rao was also quite good.

Saw this today and apart from a few stray moments - mainly the scenes with the slimy politico and the realisation that Talpade looks like an uncouth version of our very own Mayoman - found it insufferably dull. You need incredibly tight scripting to make an episodic film like this work and let's just say such scripting was nowhere in evidence. The various attempts made by Mahadev to woo his inamorata began to seem like the tedious day-night cycles from Vaastu Shastra - parts that you began to dread because you knew nothing was going to take a very very very very long time to happen. I eventually just began to stare at my watch and wait for it to end hopefully with Talpade dying a violent and horrible death.
While I agree with most of the points Suresh made, I feel this thing's been rated way too high. I'm also a bit baffled that he seems to prefer this lethargic amateurish film with its clumsy prolonged romancing and goody-two-shoes conclusion to Mammo which in spite of being very maudlin and saccharine, was overall a tighter, better more enjoyable film in my book.