Dec 12, 2009 10:18 AM
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(Updated Dec 13, 2009 08:28 PM)
Screenplay, story and dialogues: Jaideep Sahni Cast: Ranbir Kapor, Gauhar Khan, Shazan Padamsee, Prem Chopra, Mukesh Bhatt, Navin Kaushik Musix: Salim /Suleiman Merchant A refreshing and unpretentious film that throws cynicism out of the window and supplants it with some much needed idealism.
Ranbir is brilliant in his well nuanced performance that does away with the carefully cultivated ’star’ look of his previous films As Harpreet Singh Bedi, Ranbir is probably the first non-stereotypical presentaion of a sardar in Hindi films….he is not the joker of the film, nor a bhangra dancing buffoon, nor a Pak defeating soldier…..he is just a regular young lad of urban India out to make his mark in his first job as a computer salesman .He does not wear loud sherwani’s, does not twirl his moustache endlessly and within the first 10 mins you even stop noticing he is a Sikh.
Finally a Punjabi/sardar boy minus the ‘balley balley’ and ‘hadippa’ quotient…and it works.
Gauhar Khan as the office receptionist is well cast and gives a good performance but the thunder is stolen mostly by the computer engineer Giri(D.Santosh) and cup-plate (Mukesh Bhatt).
The only disappointment is the ‘new introduction’ Shazan Padamsee but that hardly matters as romance is incidental to the movie and treated with a casual, fresh approach totally missing from the usual Bollywood flick.
The casting is spot on and the Shimit’s eye for detail impressive.Its a movie which tells an ordinary story in a down to earth manner.The second half is slow but this is anyway not a movie where some great secret has to be revealed at the end but is engaging enough so that one remains in one’s seat without keeling over with boredom.
Those in similar office situations and those who have gone up the ladder after surviving the mayhem of an Indian office will find a lot to identify with.
The film may not appeal to all sections of the audience but should touch a chord with young, aspiring and struggling urban India.So go and watch Harpreet Singh Bedi as he struggles to meet his sales targets while trying to hold on to his innate honesty and value system.
