Much Above Average, Too Short Of Greatness!. Review on Mithya

When, by the time of end-credits, you have already begun to appreciate

a film for the kind of cinema it has been, rather than the feeling and the

emotions it generated in you, you know something is wrong.

I liked the film. But I felt Mithya couldn't achieve its potential. It could have been great, but has possibly ended up being just a "good attempt".

The biggest concern with the movie is its lack of focus. And this doesn't let the film touch you emotionally.

The last 2 lines, between the boat guys who throw sonam's body into the river, possibly try to capture the essence of the movie.

"love story thi kya?"

"hmm"

"sad. very sad"

They sound more like an afterthought by the director. It seems the director wanted to explain, after all, what exactly was he trying to make!

This brilliant piece of acting by Ranvir, looses out as film because none of the subplots are built strongly enough for the viewers to relate to any of the aspects of VK's life. You neither feel strongly for his struggle as an actor, nor his love for sonam, or his small little good son act, or his relationship with Raje's wife and family, or him being a better father to Raje's children, or his success as an actor in acting out Raje in real life!

All these were great TOUCH-points and none of them could dig deep. The movie could have made you drop dead in grief when VK was killed, but you just sigh an indifferent "nice film", than "Oh! damn!".

The cliched hindi film twists(double role, memory loss etc) don't help the film's cause. Neither do they successfully "dark spoof"(if such a phrase exists!:) the originals, nor do they add a punch.

As far as the genre is concerned, its clearly black comedy!(because black comedy mocks at all aspects of life). So now you know if its your type.

The Bheja Fry Model of low production value doesn't hurt the film much.

If you like watching the new brave genre of Bollywood, Mithya is one of the braver ones.(Not as brave as No Smoking though. That was downright brash and almost conceited!)

Mithya is a must watch for Ranvir fans. Vinay fans will be disappointed. Black comedy suckers will go home with that wierd feeling an undertaker gets when he watches a dead body get up and run away to the next graveyard, leaving him high and dry.

I was kidding about the the undertaker thing!