Monday, June 16, 2008

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Dus Kahaniyaan
Movie
Dus Kahaniyaan
Director
Apoorva Lakhia, Meghna Gulzar, Sanjay Gupta,
Producer
Sanjay Dutt
Cast
Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Vidya Balan, Neha Dhupia


Sonia Chopra
Dus? Bus, you want to scream. Ten teeny tiny stories cement into making this film. Which, by the way, is balderdash and worse.

Normally, if a film is made up of multiple stories, one tends to discuss the favourites; here you end up talking about which was the worst of the lot. What happened? The so-called twists promised in every story are so predictable, you find your intelligence offended ten times over in this movie. Some of the stories are very much like Ram Gopal Varma’s Darna Mana Hai, which was in turn inspired by Tales From The Crypt, but DMH was interesting and fresh, this is plain juvenile. Of course, since this is a Sanjay Gupta film, there’s lots of skin (no fully clothed women allowed in Gupta’s films unless they’re over 40), lots of violence, and the mandatory underworld story with lots of gore shore in stylized slow mo. The film reportedly has twelve writers, eight composers, six directors and 25 actors – and surprisingly, not one had the right mindedness to see through the over-simplistic tone of the film.

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