The film with its unconventional make and very different treatment has
already received a lot of flake and the public at large has seemingly
rejected it .True, the flaws are so many , that it almost becomes
pointless to write about them. But still there are certain things in this film
which must be taken positively. First and foremost is the fact that it has a
daringly different plot. For a change we have a film which is not based
on marriage, a rarety in the almost obsessed bollywood.There are no garish
wedding songs , no silly band of relatives, nothing ! The film strictly
revolves around the central charactars , again a welcome thing from
hindi film point of view. One more thing it tries to do but pulls back half
way, is to take the indian women from the pedestal of sanctity where she has
been hung stereotypically ,to the realm of humans, the director does the
brave task of showing the reality that the much deified indian women too is
fallible(she too is human) but withdraws, being unsure of peoples reaction. It
showed that the protagonist of the film is a vulnerable ,sensitive being, not
the all conquering 'mard ko dard nahi hota' package of machismo.The story
deals with fact and fiction, perhaps the first time in bollywood.So it was a
bold and refreshing effort. Unfortunately thats all the good one can say
about this film.
The story is basically of a writer Shaukat Vishist,played by sanjay
Dutt. who is shown to be a chimerical writer, who basks in past glory, who
hasn't written since years supposedly for want of inspiring character. He
thinks about writing about a women antara, and finds his imagination similar
to his wife antara. Then in order to take his story further , he encourages
his wife to do things fit to be in story.Which includes getting attracted to her
coworker. Then this story obsessed writer commits the mistake of mixing
imagination and reality. He starts believing that he is scripting
reality. He encouraged his wife to fall in love with her colleague but now he
thinks that he loves his wife too much, so he kills the character of her lover(in
the novel) and thinks that this will also happen in the real life. In the
end ,this reality imagination convolution is too much for him to
handle, he looses his mental faculties, some thing which happened in his novel
too!!
Performance wise, Sanjay Dutt disappoints. He fails to evoke the
sympathies of the viewers. Whenever he wails because of his inner turmoil, the
audience burst into laughter. Although its not his fault, when the script ,the
direction everything goes haywire. The film was too shady to be
understood, and appeared incoherent .Zayd Khan does okay in the two bit role of
his. But honestly he is not yet ready to do such sort of roles. The film has a
few very loud supporting actors too.They add little value and need not be
mentioned.But the only saving grace of the film is aishwaraya! The lady
looked beautiful as never before. She acted well as a reluctantly
interested lover, as a wife trying to deal with a difficult husband. But her
efforts were ridiculously little to salvage the film.
In all, its not worth a look,let it be the last choice.
