Sep 22, 2006 03:30 PM
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Passion, crime and thrill is what Aar Ya Paar is all about. Shekhar (Jackie Shroff) a penniless playboy, who believes that he can win the heart of any girl and is right when he gets to bed the cabaret dancer Julie (Ritu Shivpuri), but when it comes to playing the same game with the spoilt, arrogant and irresistibly glamorous millionairess Reena (Kamal Sidhu), he takes the game too far and gets into the matrimonial wagon.
Money is no doubt dear to Shekhar, but he has had a free life and hence he finds himself suffocating in the bonds of marriage. Relief comes in the form of Anu (Deepa Sahi), the bespectacled employee. Shekhar finds a different world of passion behind the timid front of Anu, and he gets more than he had asked for as he gets into a clandestine affair with her. He is slowly but steadily drawn by Anu to kill Reena and all hell breaks for him when the perfect murder hits back on his face. Anu and Shekhar find themselves in a whirlpool of deceit, enmeshed with the crime of murder.
Jackie Shroff has done a marvelous role of the playboy as well of the murderer. Ritu Shivpuri as the cabaret dancer had not much of a role but she looks fresh and beautiful, and presents a better screen image than the other two female characters. Kamal Sidhu would not have been noticed in this film if her role had not been so long. She is stiff and tight, however it worked as a benefit to present the snob and rich spoilt millionairess. It is Deepa Sahi who has shown different shades to the cunning and passionate character of Anu. She has come out well with the timid part as much as the glamorous part of the role, so also she has justified the cunningness and the love crazy sides of Anu. The direction by Ketan Mehta is par excellence with exotic locations of Italy shot from the tourist point of view. Music by Viju Shah is up to mark with club song and the title number.
The film when released a decade back was not accepted well with the Indian audience who had not as yet see the stylish Westernised style of treatment to a Hindi film. Secondly, the storyline was considered too bold, murder, treachery and life of sin; something we preferred not to see on the screen. So also the anti-hero aspect of the film was a let down for the audience.
If there is nothing better to watch on the tube…get this one from a library for the kicks.
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