Apr 20, 2006 11:25 PM
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(Updated Apr 20, 2006 11:25 PM)
A lot of directors are trying out the different ways , to make Hindi movies cater to a larger audience , especially the West. Bluffmaster , the entertaining comedy by Rohan Sippy enthralled the US audiences. Taxi No 9211 , directed by Milan Luthria , was a revelation and brought in a new lease of life into Indian cinema. I do not know whether this movie appealed to the West , but the recent (disaster) called Humko Deewana Kar Gaye made it into the UK Top Ten List.
Likewise , Being Cyrus , by Homi Adajania , after captivating the Israel audience , made it to India and reinforced the trend that Bollywood is not far behind world class cinema.
Now , this is not certainly an ordinary Hindi movie ( infact , this is a so-called english movie with dashes of Gujarati). This is no hero-heroine-villain story , if that is what you are looking for. And songs?? Karan Johar would have sulked!
The reason why I like this 1 hour 18 minute movie is that this movie dares to be different. A drug-addicted , hen pecked husband , a dissatisfied wife , who fancies herself with her brother-in-law and is not ill at ease in mouthing curses at her own husband. A young biwi , who sighs with satisfaction after her husband leaves , lights her cigarrette at the stove and dallies all day long... Unusual climaxes , great BGM add up to the USPs of this movie.
Great acting is what you can look out in this movie , especially that of Dimple Kapadia and Saif Ali Khan ( who has definitely improved from Dil Chahta Hai and has got more screen space to prove his worth).
If there was one thing , that would make this movie a little unreasonable , it would be the English dialogues. I mean , yes , Saif can speak the language well , but what about the others? Dimple's dubbing is too artificial for an Indian family and so is Dinshaw's. Hell , Indians don't look good mouthing English dialogues in a Hindi movie!
But even this cannot degrade the interest generated by watching Being Cyrus. As I said before , Hindi cinema is on the less-explored , unconventional track , occasionally halting , to support disasters like Souten and Saawan. Well...
