CAST: | Radhika Apte, Siddhanth Kapoor, Akshay Oberoi, Adil Hussain, Ravi Kishan |
DIRECTION: | Pia Sukanya |
GENRE: | Comedy |
DURATION: | 1 hours 48 minutes |
The film is supposedly made on producer Michael E Ward's experiences while living in Mumbai with wife Pia Sukanya, the film's director. Mumbai can be chaotic and bizarre and the director has tried to capture it's bizarreness in this dark comedy which also gives a message that a witness protection program is the need of the hour. Though the message gets lost somewhere amidst the chaos.
In trying to capture the ever-changing nature of Mumbai, the screenplay has been made too complex and convoluted. The director has adopted an anything goes approach, which works initially but fails to hold the film together in the overall scheme of things. It's a glorious mess and after a while you just stop trying to follow the different strands as it becomes too much of an effort.
Some scenes, like the one where Radhika Apte tries to explain lesbianism to Akshay Oberoi's mom and ends up singing a bhajan with her are definitely quirky and worth some laughter. The film is also peppered with some clever dialogue as well. But the disjointed nature of the narrative gets in the way of enjoying the film to the fullest. What keeps the interest up is fine acting by the ensemble cast. Radhika Apte once again proves that you can put her in anything and she'll deliver. Akshay Oberoi, who plays a momma's boy and Siddhanth Kapoor, playing a clueless delivery boy perform well too. Ravi Kishan too is a hoot as an out-of-shape superstar.
All-in-all, this derailed comedy carrying a serious message is worth the ride only if you don't mind meandering journeys going nowhere...
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