This film deals with the lives of 4 couples as who live in Mumbai.
It’s a story of lust, broken hearts, strained relationships and regret told in inter cutting scenes as we jump from couple to couple as they try to work through their individual dilemmas. Each of the couples is looking for love, embarking on an affair or reclaiming lost love.
Its very different from the typical Bollywood movie, in that it follows the new trend of ensemble casts and tells differing stories that interconnect at the end.
I really enjoyed this movie, because while I love my masala movies with their time tested plot of boy meets girl, but they can’t be together and lots of songs and colour, sometimes you want a more serious movie.
Whilst this is not ground breaking, its a very real collection of stories about the hidden lives of the people we encounter every day and the way fate sometimes connects us.
This was marketed as Shilpa Shetty’s comeback film after the Big Brother fiasco, and she does phenomenally well in it. I’ve only seen one other film of hers, Dhadkan (Heartbeat) in which she totally over acted. But in this one she was very restrained as a bored housewife who embarks on an illicit affair with an actor she meets on the Metro.
Also Dharmendra as one half of the older couple in the film who comes back to die in India with his first love who he abandoned 40 years ago due to family pressure, makes the film stand out. No wonder he’s India’s second best actor after Amitabh Bachan.
The film isn’t without its flaws, in that I think in some places its too long and drags on a bit, but they’re minor complaints in an otherwise wonderful film.
This is one I would definitely recommend if you’re after something different from the Indian Cinema genre.
4 stars out of 5.
