Movie review: Miss Lovely will make you uncomfortable
Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely has everything that a Bollywood audience does not expect, does not have an appetite for. Yet, it has a storyline that would have made for a perfect Bollywood potboiler. Despite the 'opportunity', the national award winning director.
Bollywood has delved into the 'dark lanes' of parallel cinema many times before, but it is for the first time that these dark lanes actually stink, and it reaches your nostrils. So much so, that the experience of watching a movie is uncomfortable, painful and at some points horrible, instead of enjoyable. Dump that packet of popcorn This is exactly in contrast with the light cinema (read Ek Tha Tiger, Krrish, Housefull et al) that bags Rs. 100-200 crore at ticket windows and the cinema that you book tickets for because you want to forget your worries, laugh your hearts out, hail the larger than life hero, munch the popcorn leisurely, and hum along with the dhinchak tunes of those item numbers.
What Miss Lovely does to you is just the opposite. You don't feel like biting into your samosa (or much on the popcorn), you come face-to-face with the reality of a parallel universe you were probably not very familiar with and wait for the protagonist's life to change desperately. You come out breathless. You want to wipe out that blood off Nawazuddin Siddiqui's face towards the climax. Oops, did I reveal the plot. I think, I didn't.
Bollywood has delved into the 'dark lanes' of parallel cinema many times before, but it is for the first time that these dark lanes actually stink, and it reaches your nostrils. So much so, that the experience of watching a movie is uncomfortable, painful and at some points horrible, instead of enjoyable. Dump that packet of popcorn This is exactly in contrast with the light cinema (read Ek Tha Tiger, Krrish, Housefull et al) that bags Rs. 100-200 crore at ticket windows and the cinema that you book tickets for because you want to forget your worries, laugh your hearts out, hail the larger than life hero, munch the popcorn leisurely, and hum along with the dhinchak tunes of those item numbers.
What Miss Lovely does to you is just the opposite. You don't feel like biting into your samosa (or much on the popcorn), you come face-to-face with the reality of a parallel universe you were probably not very familiar with and wait for the protagonist's life to change desperately. You come out breathless. You want to wipe out that blood off Nawazuddin Siddiqui's face towards the climax. Oops, did I reveal the plot. I think, I didn't.
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