Size : 700 Mb | Genre : Comedy | Language : Hindi | Online Watchable : Yes
At a time when it might seem that mainstream Bollywood is stuck in the rut of cannibalising Hindi hits of the past, here is a Mumbai film that is nothing if not different. It is inspired by a French romantic comedy of a decade ago.
Rohan Sippy’s Nautanki Saala!, with its robust desi twist to a very Gallic idea, has the feel of an oasis in the desert. It ultimately turns out to be just a mirage, but all said and done its idiosyncrasies have the heft to lift the film high enough and keep it afloat all the way through to the end.
Sippy transports Pierre Salvadori’s Apres Vous from its Parisian restaurant setting to the madcap milieu of a Mumbai playhouse and spices it up with vigorous nods to Bollywood movies and music.
He nearly pulls off the unlikely transmogrification. And that in itself is no mean achievement.
Thanks to spot-on star turns by the two male leads, Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapur, and a stable flow of amusing, if not outright hilarious, comic punches, Nautanki Saala! is, in the main, a watchable film.
It might have been even better had the three female characters in this crazy love story been allowed a little more space to evolve into emotionally tangible beings. They are no more than mere props in the backdrop.
One girl who is about to walk out on her steady boyfriend tells another who is caught in the midst of several suitors: this is 2013 and you are in control. Truth be told, she is anything but.
There are three guys in this second girl’s life – one is her past, one her present, the yet another one her probable future. It is they who hold the strings. She yo-yos from one to other like a helpless marionette. Not on!
But let us not nitpick about the extent to which Nautanki Saala! is found wanting. It really does not matter. The quirky love triangle that forms the crux of the film is intriguing enough to last the course.
The male protagonist, Ram Parmar, RP to his friends, is a stage actor and director who plays Raavan in a long-running stage production.
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