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Karma aur Holi |
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| Movie: | Karma aur Holi |
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Sushmita Sen, Randeep Hooda, Rati Agnihotri, Suresh Oberoi, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Deepal Shaw, Naomi Campbell, Sticky Fingas, Christopher Walken, Debbie Mazor, Drena De Niro, K Anand, Vikram Chatwal, Vincent Curatola, Kumar Pallana |
| Director: | Manish Gupta |
| Music Director: | Vishal Bharadwaj, Shekhar, Raju Singh |
| Producer: | Drena De Niro, Prashant Shah, David Roma |
| Our Rating: | 2.5 out of 5 |
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Movie Review
(Posted on: March 07, 2009)
Hiding tears behind a smile, living with lies, ceaseless striving to overlook the sense of hopelessness and inability to be at peace with oneself are blended together in Manish Gupta's Karma Aur Holi. This holly-bolly concoction aims at unveiling the convoluted problems of a small group of people residing in the glamorous city of New York. Sushmita Sen (Meera) plays a supporting wife of Randeep Hooda, who feels the pangs of her inability to conceive. Her husband is also a victim of circumstances and struggling hard to revive his newspaper firm.
It is when the couple decided to invite some of their friends at their place during the holi, that the movie offered bait to the audience, who has already pressed the button of expectation. Suresh Oberoi and Rati Agnihotri were the on-screen couple who apparently seemed to lead a life of gratitude for more than two decades. Jenny (Naomi Campbell), a struggling actress, was also among the list of invitees at Meera's house. She has to suppress her unimaginably disturbed state of mind just to accompany her boyfriend to the party. Deepal Shaw did not have much of a role in the movie except in a vital sequence where she was caught trying to drive away shyness from the only son of Rati and Suresh..
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After the guests had arrived, it was time for a pleasant discussion and some light-hearted conversation, which was unfortunately not the case. Be it the Rati's religious stubbornness or Sushmita's curiosity about the relation between feminism and choice, their conversation touched upon the much-discussed issues in the contemporary world. Terrorism, racial discrimination and cultural differences are also accommodated under this package. The only thing that was ever-more striking was the half-hearted handling of these issues. The characters were not given the liberty, may be deliberately, to come out with their views on these burning topics.
The story took a further stride as all of them prepared themselves for the next day’s holi bash. This is the first time that a new vigor was felt in the movie, which was otherwise completely dependant on a stagnant plot with the story going nowhere. It is during this colorful event that each of the characters indulged in complete revelry and found a speedy solution to their mounting problems (although bit too fantastically).
The colorful costumes, especially those of Sushmita Sen, were well chosen. This beautiful actress was at her elegant best and she once again proved her elan with her stylish costumes. Perfection in camera work is reflected through the certain well executed scenes. While Sushmita Sen was the only worth mentioning performer in the movie, most others seem to have gone wayward with their assigned roles. There is no freshness in the screenplay and nothing much to explore from this confined plot. The movie altogether harped on the same tune and thus failed to bring out the unexplored sides of relationship. Karma aur holi is just another work of fiction, done in haste. It is high time that director and writer Manish Gupta should understand that real problems don’t get solved so fast and solutions don’t come so easy. A movie on real life characters should not be distant from reality, or else it loses its genuineness.
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