He’s madly in love with Kangana Ranaut who’s in love with her already married boss Kay Kay who’s NOT in love with his wife Shilpa Shetty who just might be in love with Shiney Ahuja (expressive as ever). What a puzzle! Whatever tempted Dharmendra to do this embarrassing role? Wasn’t Kis Kiski Kismat enough? Uncle and Aunty even get into a cool charpoy and nuzzle. Want a spoonful of special love ka biryani? Move over to Dharmendra and Nafisa Ali doing a combo of senior citizen lovers from Brief Encounter and a touch of Bridges of Madison County. Raaste ka Patthar (1972) but it’s been forgotten just like its heroine Nita Khayani. Incidentally, Amitabh Bachchan had done the same Jack Lemmon role in Lemmon becomes Sharman Joshi lending his apartment key to his office superiors to do-go-creak-creak-on-a-bed with their secretaries, phone operators, whoever (there’s even an extended collage of women on phones going haywire). Scary.Īlright, so here’s how the many movies-for-the-price-of-one goes. Instead of one, he strives to jam quite a few plots and scenes from here and there, all tied up by – you better believe this – music composer Pritam and two morose rockers singing their lungs off at bus stops, terrace tops, railway stations. Yet Basu who has always been something of a copycat ( Murder, read Unfaithful) attempts a Guinness Book of Records kind of feat. And a combating married couple even declares, “See, now even silences are fighting with each other.” Wow. For sure, the cinematography of Life in a.Metro is classy, the visuals ooze an European feel, a couple of the performances are topnotch, the dialogue goes Wordsworthian talking about “windows of the heart”. Indeed, move over Sanjay Gupta-Bhansali, Anurag Basu is here.
So ulp, here comes the ultimate movie that belongs to the chori department – truly this one’s more about the movies which used to be shown at the Metro cinema than about the metropolis itself. or to be more precise like good ole Jack Lemmon from that Oscar winning black-and-white giggle fest The Apartment (1960). Cast: Dharmendra, Nafisa Ali, Shilpa Shetty, KK Menon, Kangana Ranaut, Shiney Ahuja, Irrfan Khan, Sharman Joshi
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