Starring: Aruna Shields, Prashant Narayanan, Lucy Hassan, Naved Aslam
Directed by Pravesh Bhardwaj
Rating: *
Mr Singh Mrs Mehta
It doesn바카라™t take long for debutant director Pravesh Bhardwaj바카라™s film to slip into absurd territory, made even worse by abysmal acting
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t doesn바카라™t take long for debutant director Pravesh Bhardwaj바카라™s Mr Singh Mrs Mehta to slip into absurd territory. In a plot suspiciously similar to Wong Kar-Wai바카라™s classic In The Mood For Love, Neera Singh (Aruna Shields) and Ashwin Mehta (Prashant Narayanan) happen to jointly discover that their spouses are having an affair. But there are no confrontations or ugly scenes바카라”Mr Singh (Naved Aslam) and Mrs Mehta (Lucy Hassan) are able to take off secretly to Paris for a romantic getaway. The broken-hearted Neera needs a shoulder to cry and it is Ashwin바카라™s바카라”naturally. An unconvincing version of the betrayed husband, he seems rather too excited at the prospect of undressing Neera (yes, you read right) to help her recovery. A painter that he is바카라”the artsy, chain-smoking type바카라”he embarks on a Leonardo di Caprio-style pose-in-the-nude project with Neera, who quickly gives in, after displaying a few flashes of uncharacteristic shyness about undressing. By the way, for all the pre-release talk about nudity being central to the film바카라™s theme of infidelity and how it boldly made it past the censor board, the peek-a-boo show here is embarrassingly lame.
It바카라™s really hard to keep up with the strangeness of the Mehtas and Singhs, the arbitrary things the plot makes them do and say, made even worse by the abysmal acting. Aruna바카라™s stumbling, irritating, high-pitched Hindi and misplaced display of emotions inspire no empathy. Prashant바카라™s sparks of talent are completely wasted. Second leads Aslam and Hassan are plain painful to watch. London, where the two unfortunate couples reside, comes across as a nondescript, shady place바카라”a hard thing to do to a beautiful city바카라”and much of the film suffers from a seriously tacky 바카라™90s Bollywood hangover, with never-ending and uninspired ghazals. In the midst of her dilemma, Aruna even mouths idiotic lines like, 바카라śMera pati hamesha tumhari patni ko ghumata rehta hain, tumko bhi mujh par kharcha karna chahiye.바카라ť Would you waste your money on this one?
High Fives
Bollywood
- Raavan
- Raajneeti
- Krantiveer: The Revolution
- Housefull
- The Karate Kid (dubbed)
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Hollywood
- Toy Story 3
- Grown Ups
- Knight and Day
- The Karate Kid
- The A-Team
Jazz Albums
- Crazy Love (Michael Buble)
- Your Songs (Harry Connick, Jr.)
- Jasmine (Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden)
- Backatown (Trombone Shorty)
- Nikki (Nikki Yanofsky)
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