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Via Darjeeling | 2008-06-27
Too many cooks spoil the broth!
Director: Arindam Nandy
Actors : Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Proshant Narayanan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Vinay Pathak, Parvin Dabas
The Bitch‘s Verdict : For the arty farty kinds
Sonali Kulkarni, please stop shrieking. If The Bitch had her way she would have slapped you to achieve the desired silence.
Suddenly during the movie The Bitch got the urge to borrow Adam Sandler‘s remote control and change the channel. Only if that was possible. And that‘s the problem with this movie.
At one point initially the movie grips you hard enough to forget the early morning hunger pangs and suddenly before you know it, you start finding Kay Kay‘s presence irritating. Thanks to the same story being screwed again and again by different people.
It‘s a desi wannabe ‘Rashomon‘ which lost its way from the script to the screen. Period.
But kudos to the first time director for at least trying something different from the usual commercial crap. But are the Indian viewers ready for such stuff yet?
The performances are dull. The Bitch expected sparks flying all over with a cast like this, but none of that ever happened.
Kay Kay doesn‘t look very comfortable playing a newly married guy. He certainly seems out of place when trying to express his love for Sonali Kulkarni and that‘s why his performance seems over the top in some instances.
Sonali on the other hand is an extreme too. Sudden bursts of anger from her character rarely seem to fit the plot.
It‘s interesting to see both the characters play different versions of the same story and change their characters. It‘s not a treat though.
Kay Kay and Sonali are a couple honeymooning in Darjeeling when suddenly Kay Kay disappears just before they are about to leave. The police are called and the investigation starts. And the story ends there.
We then find out that this was a get together story session by Vinay Pathak, who happened to be the policeman at the time and the story never climaxed as they couldn‘t find Kay Kay.
Enticed by this, the others in the group also become storytellers and churn out their versions of what happened next.
Good idea, good intentions. Bad execution, average acting.
‘Via Darjeeling‘ starts off as a thriller and you keep expecting a climax which never happens and the end is left to your imagination. Even the different stories are rather bland and have the usual outcome.
This one would have been better off as an episodic on TV!
Too many cooks spoil the broth!
Director: Arindam Nandy
Actors : Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni, Proshant Narayanan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Vinay Pathak, Parvin Dabas
The Bitch‘s Verdict : For the arty farty kinds
Sonali Kulkarni, please stop shrieking. If The Bitch had her way she would have slapped you to achieve the desired silence.
Suddenly during the movie The Bitch got the urge to borrow Adam Sandler‘s remote control and change the channel. Only if that was possible. And that‘s the problem with this movie.
At one point initially the movie grips you hard enough to forget the early morning hunger pangs and suddenly before you know it, you start finding Kay Kay‘s presence irritating. Thanks to the same story being screwed again and again by different people.
It‘s a desi wannabe ‘Rashomon‘ which lost its way from the script to the screen. Period.
But kudos to the first time director for at least trying something different from the usual commercial crap. But are the Indian viewers ready for such stuff yet?
The performances are dull. The Bitch expected sparks flying all over with a cast like this, but none of that ever happened.
Kay Kay doesn‘t look very comfortable playing a newly married guy. He certainly seems out of place when trying to express his love for Sonali Kulkarni and that‘s why his performance seems over the top in some instances.
Sonali on the other hand is an extreme too. Sudden bursts of anger from her character rarely seem to fit the plot.
It‘s interesting to see both the characters play different versions of the same story and change their characters. It‘s not a treat though.
Kay Kay and Sonali are a couple honeymooning in Darjeeling when suddenly Kay Kay disappears just before they are about to leave. The police are called and the investigation starts. And the story ends there.
We then find out that this was a get together story session by Vinay Pathak, who happened to be the policeman at the time and the story never climaxed as they couldn‘t find Kay Kay.
Enticed by this, the others in the group also become storytellers and churn out their versions of what happened next.
Good idea, good intentions. Bad execution, average acting.
‘Via Darjeeling‘ starts off as a thriller and you keep expecting a climax which never happens and the end is left to your imagination. Even the different stories are rather bland and have the usual outcome.
This one would have been better off as an episodic on TV!
Comments (1)
i saw this movie by mistake, one word. Horrible! | champu
