STARRING
Parveen Dabbas, Prashant Narayan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Vinay Pathak, Kay Kay Menon, Sonali Kulkarni and others.
DIRECTION
Arindam Nandy
STORY
The plot of the film revolves around a newly married couple played by Kay Kay Menon (Ankur) and Sonali Kulkarni (Rimli), who are on honeymoon trip to Darjeeling. The story takes a turn for the worse when Ankur disappears, leaving his wife in the lurch. In spite of every effort from the police led by Robin Datt (Vinay Pathak), Anukur could not be traced. Rimli suspects the disappearance to be he handiwork of either a taxi driver (with whom Ankur had a fight) or a suspicious looking man Bonny (Parveen Dabbas).
After a gap of two years, Robin Datt is chatting about this real story with some of his friends (Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Proshanth Narayanan and Sandhya Mridul) in a rainy night. All the friends are fascinated by the story and enquire about the end of the story, but Robin is not able to tell them.
Now, all of them try to make out the possible sequence of events that could have taken place on that fateful day. They relate different versions in accordance with their personality and viewpoint.
PERFORMANCE
Kay Kay Menon, who plays the husband Ankur honeymooning in Darjeeling, is natural to the core and lives his part well. In any case, he always acts very convincingly. However, this time Sonali Kulkarni, too, has come with a winning performance in the role of Ankur’s honeymooning wife Rimli.
Parveen Dabbas suits perfectly for the suspicious looking character of Bonny in the film. Vinay Pathak, in the character of a police officer, is just superb. Rajat Kapoor and Simone Singh pass the muster while Sandhya Mridul acts fiery in her sequences.
The direction of Arindam Nandy is fairly good, but he should have allowed the character of Vinay Pathak to conclude the story by revealing the actual outcome. In the absence of that the whole exercise in sounds incomplete and the audience goes dissatisfied. Though it’s a new idea and style of filmmaking, but the sensitivities of audiences should have been taken under consideration.
Atul Sabharwal’s dialogues are very good and carry the mood of the film forward. However, the cinematographer has not been able to capture the beauty of the hill station in the film. The music suits the narrative and feel of the film.
STARDUST VERDICT
The subject and style of the film is more suited to television than to big screen. It’s more of an experimental effort from the director and has no future at the box office. A poor fare
