Film SINS ; SINning all the way. Review on Sins

SINce I SINned by watching SINS with my couSIN, I thought it was my moral duty to warn all the movie buffs about this SINcerely SINful effort of the SINning team.

To begin with, SINS is all about one father William (Shiny Ahuja), who becomes the biggest SINner of the century. Williams is a Priest but does everything that a Priest is not supposed to do, eg., seduces a young girl, lies effortlessly to everyone and murders an old woman.

Initially, after every SIN, he SINcerely goes to the church and confesses. But after a few months or was that years? Whatever! After a while, there comes a point where he loses count of his SINS and decides to stop confesSINg.

And here?s the SINning story?

William gets obsessed by Rosemary (Seema Rahmani), a keralite catholic girl, who is an aspiring nurse.

Ripping a cruel page out of the newspapers, writer-director Vinod Pande has reconstructed a dramatic and often shocking tale of forbidden love between a Catholic priest and a junior disciple.

Pande (''Ek Baar Phir'', ''Yeh Nazdeekiyan'', ''Ek Naya Rishta'' and ''Sach'') is never a stranger to the dark side of love and relationships.

William and Rosemary?s relationship, which starts with an accidental intimacy, gradually goes on to become a full-fledged love affair. The love story reaches a point of irredeemable tragedy with the priest's love turning into perverse possessiveness.

Rosemary is married off to a drunkard with an understanding that she will continue to be involved with Williams. I wonder which husband would like to get into such an arrangement! Anyway! Rosemary?s husband is sent off to Mumbai whereas William continues to SIN with her.

Few scenes later she realizes her mistake and her moral responsibility towards her pati parmeshwar and decides to flee with her husband. They take Rosemary?s mother?s help to escape from the possessive and obsessive Priest.

Her mom (Uttara Baokar) happily undertakes this secret mission and goes and informs William that she has no knowledge of her daughter?s whereabouts. This is only to fool Father William. However, few scenes later she effortlessly lets out the secret herself. Amnesia or what?!!!

Huuuuh!!!! I can?t go on any longer. Watch the film yourself to know the climax!

Sins isn't an easily digestible ''love'' story. However, the volatile central relationship and the priest's rapid moral degeneration are cannily codified by good performances.

For virtual newcomers, Shiny Ahuja and Seema Rahmani are surprisingly fluent in exploring the dark side of lust and love.

What comes in the way of their performances are the speech patterns - the thickly laden ''Keralite'' accents often go awry and end up coming in the way of emotions.

Few things I did not like about SINS:

1. The story is based in Kerala but none of the artists look like Keralites.

2. The actors do try to get in the Keralite accent every now and then but instead of sounding authentic, they sound funny. For e.g., Rahmani did try talking in a Keralite accent in a scene or two but in the very next scene she was heard talking in a perfect American accent! Another humorous character is William?s driver, who tries his hands at the Keralite accent but ends up sounding like an UPite.

3. William looks more like a model than a Father.

4. Rosemary is one confused woman. She is the actual SINner in the film.

5. The intimate scenes between William and Rosemary are unnecessarily stretched, with unwanted ?skin? show. Nudity can definitely be shown in a more picturesque and dignified manner.

6. The intimate scenes between Rosemary and her husband (Nitesh Pande) are horrendous!