'Delhii Heights' - a good theme gone awry
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Film:
"Delhii Heights"; Cast: Om Puri, Jimmy Shergil, Neha Dhupia, Rohit Roy,
Simone Singh, Vivek Shauq and Kamini Khanna; Director: Anand Kumar;
Rating: *1/2. We've
seen small-budget, 'zara hatke' films like "Khosla Ka Ghosla" and
"Pyaar Ke Side Effects" turn into good entertainers and rake in moolah
at the box office. Something similar was expected from first time
director Anand Kumar's "Delhii Heights".
But he disappoints. If
Kumar had executed the story cleverly and concentrated on fewer
characters, he could have made it an appealing fare.
In the
movie, Delhii Heights is the name of a high-rise apartment in the
capital and the story revolves around the people living in it.
Neha
Dhupia and Jimmy Shergill, who are working in rival ad agencies, are
the protagonists in this slice-of-life story. The other couple in the
film is played by Simone Singh and Rohit Roy, who is a big time flirt.
Apart
from them, other residents of the apartments are Om Puri, who plays a
sardar, Vivek Shauq, a bookie, and a band of four boys just whiling
away their time doing nonsensical things.
Too cluttered!
The
story is about Jimmy and Neha and how their work messes up their
personal lives ... And finally how they find a solution to put their
married life on track.
In the meantime, Simone catches her
flirtatious husband red-handed with another woman. She walks out on him
but an accident forces her to reconsider her decision.
The story
is too predictable to keep the audiences hooked. If the director had
concentrated on the main plot instead of meandering in too many
directions, it could have been a good movie.
As for
performances, Om Puri takes the cake and the rest of the cast seems to
be just okay ... you don't mind flaws in the performances because you
know their limitations.
Songs are tolerable but the background
score by the debutant music director Rabbi Shergill works as a
deterrent and doesn't really enhance the situations in the film.
In short, you can give it a miss!
By Arpana, Indo-Asian News Service
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