Mar 08, 2007 01:47 AM
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Or some questions remained unanswered!
Alike many other movie buffs I went to the cinema hall to watch this movie with loads of expectations but unlike many other debutant directors, Reema Kagti failed to catch the right bus inspite of giving an inspired effort. The promos of the film started long time ago and was enough to create a queque of inferences (or expectations) in the mind about it being a part of the set consisting of Dil Chahta Hai, Jhankar Beats, Khosla ka Ghosla, etc. The cast was also such an ensembled one, I thought of having a good hillarious time while watching this non-commerial stuff. I wouldn’t say I hadn’t, but to get success in this world you need to remain above the expectations.
The film started sluggishly but was gradually getting the pace and quality till the director decided to cut short the Ranvir shorey’s class. It was like Sachin Tendulkar being wrongly given out on duck. But in fact, it was really becoming a cricket match with different characters through their performances were trying to save the match. Believe or not, it wasn’t a story based stuff but was character driven, though nothing wrong in it.
Well, soon after shorey’s exit the film started opening up the origins of the different couples in different shades. Showing the flashbacks in different shades of colour was one of the best features of the movie. During this period, one thing which was pinching me most was the character of Sandhya Mridul. Her past portrayed her as a simple, middle class working women falling in love with a person whom she later found to have already married with someone else. The huger is the shock, the hugerer was the change in her look, perceptions, values, attitude, her present. How come this be? I wonder!
The man who actually clinched all the awards was none other than Kay Kay Menon. Right from the start when he introduced himself till the end, in not even a single scene I thought of him being a non-bengali person. His eyes plays a big part in his performance and he gets into a character so much & so easily that it seems to be a completely effortless display of class. Her partner Raima was also at her usual best. Grace is the word I will use to describe her in this movie. Well actually, this was the best couple I found in this honeymoon in terms of creation of the characters by the storywriter and of course both the actors fully succeed in portraying a couple who give immense values to their beliefs, have understanding between them and more importantly cant live without each other. Kudos to them!
As the movie moved along, the couples started knowing each other and the most common thing between all the couples was that none’s tenure was fully smooth. Although Mr. & Mrs. 55 never faced any problem in between them, they had their shares of emotions brought forward from their previous life.
As far as the act of Amisha Patel is concerned, she could do it so easily only because the attitude of her character was very much alike to that of her real-life one.
Now comes the couple regarding whom I have the most volatile opinion. No prizes for guessing Abhay deol and Manissha Lamba. Till the start of the ending portion of this movie, I was having a very pleasing view of these superhumans. But it turned upside down as soon as these humans turned super. I liked the Spanish dance picturised by them very much but at the same time was scratching my head to solve the mystery of their powers origin. In the flashback they have been shown a complete dumbos but in the present they seems to be most powerful. It would have been more relevant to have shown the source of their powers in their past story. At the same time, I must say they mixed with each other very well and they can be a very good pair in their real life also.
Finally comes the no. of the oldest and the boldest pair. Mr. & Mrs. 55 is what Boman Irani calls to themselves in the movie. There is nothing much to say about them as they always act very naturally. I liked the idea of combining a parsee guy with a muslim woman.
One thing in which the movie succeed was in creating good intellectual comedy at intervals with Kay Kay Menon being in most of the scenes. As far as music is concerned, there wasn’t much to hear but whatever is there is good.
Now I come to the last phase of my analysis. Taking all the things together I would say that the movie could have been better than this if the 2nd half would have supported the first. I liked the matured performances of the actors and the different shades of life just after marriage unfolded in this screenplay. It was different and hence might not go well with every type of cine-goers but again no one can deny the fact that the promos of the film created altogether different view from what it is actually.
I rate this movie 5.5/10.
