Smile doesn't mean every thing is fine.... Review on Everbody Say's I'm Fine

Cast: Rehaan Engineer, Koel Purie, Pooja Bhatt, Rahul Bose, Anahita Uberoi, Boman Irani, Shahrokh Bharucha

Director: Rahul Bose

Rahul bose's Directorial debut with ''Everybody Says I'm Fine'', a film that takes a dig at the world of affluent where people think that everything's fine with them when in actual fact it is not.

PLOT

Everybody Says I'm fine tells the story of a hair-dresser who has the uncanny ability to read other people’s mind. He helps them out of problems anonymously. Unfortunately there is nobody to aide him when he lands up in trouble himself.

The story, which Rahul has scripted himself in a straight 32 days, revolves around the lives of five characters-- an industrialist, a hep bimbette, a dandy socialite and two young teenagers. Also there is a central character (Rehaan Engineer) who acts as a kind of observer. The film stars Anahita Oberoi, Pooja Bhatt, Boman Irani, Diandra Soares, Suchitra Pillai and Rahul himself in a comic role.

One highlight of the film is its background score by Zakir Hussain. Hussain has experimented with the film's music fusing the elements of trance, reggae and jazz with qawwali in other words -the voices of Talat Aziz and Ram Shankar and the music of saxophonist George Brooks, sarangi wizard Ustad Sultan Khan, flautist Ronu Mazumdar and percussionist Taufiq Qureshi..where do u get them alone ??. If that’s not enough Rahul has roped none other than Guitar Great Carlos Santana to sing the title track for the film.

Plus with Shiamak Davar as choreographer and Hemant Trivedi as the costume designer the film promised to be nothing less than coup of sorts.

FLOW

At the heart of Bose's lucid, warm take on urban high society angst is Xen (Rehaan Engineer..the silence with which he adds on as Xen reminds the sound of maturi zen) soft n subtle an upmarket hairstylist who can read the innermost thoughts of the seemingly happy people who come to his salon for a crafftoure. He uses his unusual gift to ferret out secrets and then guide his clients out of the emotional/psychological mess they are in, but he does so without ever letting them know...a talent which pays dividends and is the needle for knitting the whole movie

( I Feel)..

Among regular visitors to the salon are Tania Ruia (Pooja Bhatt), who has been deserted by her wealthy husband, Misha Patel, who sells cocaine to young boys to fund her own drug addiction, Siddharth Mittal (Boman Irani), a feted business tycoon with a dark fetish, Rage (Rahul Bose), an out-of-work actor who brags incessantly about the roles he has bagged, and a pair of college-going lovebirds. They all say they're fine, but Xen knows exactly how yawning the chasm between their public posturing and the reality actually is.

There is one character in the crowd -- the bohemian, wild-spirited Nikita (Koel Purie..man she is a sparkle tone and brings in smile as cute as a teddy at times and as gorgeous as the most adored woman ) -- whose mind remains beyond the pale of scrutiny. She arouses passion in Xen, and the energy unleashed by the incipient bonding liberates both - the hairstylist from the bitter memory of his parents' horrid death in a bizarre recording studio accident, the girl from the clutches of a sex-crazed father. Everybody… deals with incest, murder, marital infidelity, drug addiction, young lust and burning passions, but thanks to the warm humanist glow that Bose wraps around the unfolding vignettes of pain , the film does not ever appear indecent..

A must watch..for it is wat is the need of the time in the ways of moulding a message to the society with out getting any wramth of censor board in another words the walks of genius is watched by every one ..so do I adore to :-D