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Nautanki Saala! review: Of romance, bromance
- 4/25/2013 10:41:58 AM
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Movie:
Nautanki Saala
Director:
Rohan Sippy
Cast:
Ayushmann Khurrana, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Abhishek Bachchan, Evelyn Sharma, Pooja Salvi, Gaelyn Mendonca
The film’s a remake of an averagely rated French comedy Après vous (2003). It’s been dressed up against the backdrop of theatre (instead of the original restaurant backdrop), to give it an interesting canvas. And so we have the larger-than-life, Broadway-style visual splendor— beautiful lighting, elaborate costumes and the story of Ramayana.
RP (Ayushmann Khurrana) the actor-director of RaamLeela a lavish play, is going home to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday. On the way, he sees a strange sight. A man is attempting to hang himself. RP saves the man from the suicide bid and gets him home.
The man, incoherent and somewhat funny, sticks on the next day and the next. A bromance brews between the two, even as RP starts calling him his BFF (Best Friends Forever).
The suicidal man, Mandar Lele (Kunaal Roy Kapur) is severely heartbroken. RP takes it upon himself to help Mandar reunite with his girlfriend Nandini. And then starts the sad and comical occurrences as a love triangle develops.
The major flaw with the film is we never quite understand why RP puts his job and love-life at risk to help Mandar, who till some time back, was a complete stranger. He gets him a central role – that of Ram— in his production over other deserving hopefuls. This, after Mandar botches up the audition horribly.
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