Well some of my friends and my brother say that I have always had a soft corner for Yash Raj Films & their movies. While I wont deny their claim completely it is also true i feel that these days they have been churning out quite a few uneventful movies some which like Fanaa have unfortunately been successfull & some of it like Tara Rum Pum, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom etc have bitten the dust.
Here comes one more such uneventul film from their stable-Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (LCMD).Directed by Pradeep Sarkar the veteran ad film maker & director of movies like Balo Theko ( Bengali which introduced Vidya Balan) & Parineeta and starring good actors like Rani Mukherjee, Konkona Sen,Jaya Bhaduri, Abhishek Bachchan etc, this could have been an excellent combination to boast of.
Alas the subject of the movie is a big let down- its inspired by a Marathi short story ,Doghi written by Vijay Tendulkar which was made into a play & a marathi movie of the same name.It also bears resemblance to Aaina a movie starring Mumtaz & Rajesh Khanna in the 1970's which was a remade by K.Balachandar from his own tamil movie-Aval Oru Thodarkathai.
Well going back to the plot, Anupam Kher & Jaya Bhaduri lived a miserable life in Varanasi.They have only tales of old glory left.Even their haveli is under legal dispute with their relatives laying stake- Tinnu Anand & Sushant Singh.Rani Mukherjee & Konkona Sen play the free spirited daughters.One fine day when things get very difficult,Rani decides to support the family & goes to Mumbai to work.
So as usual she is made to compromise in order to make ends meet & ends up becoming a high class "escort" in order to ensure things at home are taken care of!!!Well she also ends up meeting Abhishek Bachchan in Switzerland, but has to move out of there soon.Konkona comes over to Mumbai and gets a job in an ad agency.She also falls in love with Kunal Kapoor, a colleague.
Alls well till here, when Konkona finds out about her sister's profession.But she doesnt let her down & insists Rani accompnay her for the wedding.Thats when its known that Abhishek is Kunal's bada bhai.Well I hope you all can understand that the story ends on a predicatble happy note.
The whole story is so so predicatable, you can take lots of breaks in between & still know where the story has reached!Performances are decent, music is just ok with only the first song-Humto aise hain bhaiyya staying on your mind.While Varanasi & Switzerland have been shot well ( expected from YashRaj Films), there is nothing much to redeem the movie.Certainly a disappointment from Yash Raj & Pradeeo Sarkar.
Rating-1.5/5
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