The film is about an outwardly well-to-do New York couple Meera (Sen) and Dev (Hooda) who are either showering together, or shouting at each other, depending on which way their marital mood swings.
Karma Aur Holi
u; drama
Dir: Manish Gupta
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Randeep Hooda, Drena De Niro, Naomi Campbell, and Suchitra Krishnamurthy
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What it's about: The film is about an outwardly well-to-do New York couple Meera (Sen) and Dev (Hooda) who are either showering together, or shouting at each other, depending on which way their marital mood swings. One fine day, the couple invites home a group of people including a self-absorbed Pakistani filmmaker (Armin Amiri) and his pregnant girlfriend (Campbell), a bickering couple (Suresh Oberoi, Rati Agnihotri) and their porn-fixated teenage son, a repressed wife (Krishnamurthy ) and her bullying husband. By the time the day is done, the lid is blown off the fau00e7ade of suburban marriages in the Land Of Dreams.
What's Hot: Are you kidding????
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What's Not: Manish Gupta who probably thought he was doing a diasporic version of Woody Allen's cinema ends making up an extended episode of a Doordarshan serial on the vagaries of the Page 3 crowds. A few minutes into this mish-mash of Woody Allen, George Bernard Shaw, Govind Nihalani and Keshu Ramsay (the horror, of course, creeps in unintentionally) and you know the narrative is in trouble. The characters who come to Sushmita-Randeep's home in New York for an afternoon of heavy-duty gossiping, bitching introspection and confession seem to be speaking dialogues borrowed from a cheap American soap opera. The feelings and thoughts are not only assumed they are also devoid of any coherent pattern. The script tries to be sassy without the basic source material to carry off its ambitions. The narration is tragically chaotic. The characters seem to be let loose in a room constructed for conflict, and left to their own devices. Ideas of communal disharmony playing Shekhar's (Suresh Oberoi) sourpuss wife Vani (Rati Agnihotri) refuses to accept a glass of water from a Muslim filmmaker and inter-racial coupling (the Muslim director has Naomi Campbell as his girlfriend and punching bag) jostle for screen space with musings on a marriage of convenience in a foreign cultural location where opportunities to f**k up are unlimited. Ironic-ally the film itself becomes one messy f**k - up with the characters unaware of where to go next or what to do with the dubious responsibility of acting like people who care about the goings-on.
What to do: We remain clueless as to why Karma & Holi was made. Or why the actors who should've known better, lent their presence to the film. You have been warned, save yourself from the torture.
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