Dir: Sanjay Sharma Cast: Kapil Sharma, Zeenat Aman, Yuvraaj Parashar, Helen, Rituparna Sengupta
DUNNO Y... NA JAANE KYUN
a; Drama
Dir: Sanjay Sharmau00a0
Cast: Kapil Sharma, Zeenat Aman, Yuvraaj Parashar, Helen, Rituparna Sengupta
Rating: 1/2
What's it about: There's so much going on in Dunno Y... that it's hard to describe what exactly the film wants to say. We are introduced to an Anglo-Indian family with a granny (Helen), her daughter-in-law (Zeenat) working as a mistress to rich businessmen in order to keep her own kitchen running. Her eldest son, though married (to Rituparna), is a closet homosexual. Along the way, we get a glimpse of the difficult dynamics of the interpersonal relations among the family members and a take on social stigma on homosexuality.
What's hot: If watching Helen, a member of the senior citizen club, wriggle and dance to a jarring item number excites you, then go ahead!
What's not: It's like walking into a fish market and turning deaf. There is no sync between anything happening in the film. The production values remind you of a TV show from the early '90s. Using English as a language of communication doesn't work in the film's favour. There are major problems with diction and pronunciation. While Zeenat rolls her vowels like she's working in a call centre, others stumble and mumble lines like, "mud is smelling so nice!", or "Granny mein dum hai." The gay angle is a total disaster. Stereotyping the two men as lovers ostracised by the society is a big old clich ufffd. In a time of gay parades, weekend parties and forums to discuss issues like Section 377, the film is immensely regressive. Watching two men kiss and make love seems like a cheap plot to garner attention and controversy rather than project a mature sentiment. Performances hit an all time low. Other than Zeenat, Helen and an utterly wasted Parikshit Sahani, there is not a single character who stands out for not being loud and actually making some sense. Even Lata Mangeshkar's title track can't save the film from bleeding our ears with noise and jarring songs. There is a sense of awkwardness and discomfort in every scene and the actors fail to hide any of the glaring faults.
What to do: The film should come with a huge 'Danger' signboard to anyone thinking of going anywhere close to it. Dunno Y they made this film!
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