TOI - 7 Dec 2007, 2320 hrs IST
NEW Age Bollywood finds a new idiom: the short story genre which manages to work well for the new age audience who likes everything in short doses. Hence, what's better than a compendium of short stories that offer you a pleasure akin to reading Roald Dahl.
And if the first story, Matrimony, is actual an adaptation of Dahl himself, be sure the tone is set at the very start. Mandira Bedi, a bored wife of a CEO, finds her moments of bliss in a weekly tryst with an army officer. Trouble begins when her lover leaves, after giving her an expensive gift which she must conceal from her husband, to keep the game of matrimony on 'play' mode. But who's playing with whom? Sit back for the sting in the tail...
Almost all the stories are deftly told, with the mandatory twist in the climax which keeps you riveted. Be it Shabana confronting her religious bigotry as she shares a rice plate with a bearded Naseer, an aging Amrita Singh rediscover her youth at the expense of her young daughter's happiness in Pooranmasi, Manoj Bajpai signing his own death warrant in Zahir, Neha Dhupia rescuing a kid from a band of murderous rioters, Nana Patekar sharing the secret of his eleven smiling balloons, Dino Morea discovering the truth about the jet ski seductress or Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Shetty eternalising the Mumbai's gangsters' code in Rise and Fall, the stories are all geared to keep boredom at bay.
Go have fun. Choose your favourite short story and discover a new narrative structure in desi cinema.
And if the first story, Matrimony, is actual an adaptation of Dahl himself, be sure the tone is set at the very start. Mandira Bedi, a bored wife of a CEO, finds her moments of bliss in a weekly tryst with an army officer. Trouble begins when her lover leaves, after giving her an expensive gift which she must conceal from her husband, to keep the game of matrimony on 'play' mode. But who's playing with whom? Sit back for the sting in the tail...
Almost all the stories are deftly told, with the mandatory twist in the climax which keeps you riveted. Be it Shabana confronting her religious bigotry as she shares a rice plate with a bearded Naseer, an aging Amrita Singh rediscover her youth at the expense of her young daughter's happiness in Pooranmasi, Manoj Bajpai signing his own death warrant in Zahir, Neha Dhupia rescuing a kid from a band of murderous rioters, Nana Patekar sharing the secret of his eleven smiling balloons, Dino Morea discovering the truth about the jet ski seductress or Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Shetty eternalising the Mumbai's gangsters' code in Rise and Fall, the stories are all geared to keep boredom at bay.
Go have fun. Choose your favourite short story and discover a new narrative structure in desi cinema.
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