Nanu Ki Jaanu, Movie Review: Abhay Deol & Patralekha Hit The Right Note
It's watchable if you can excuse it for its few lines of writing which stand out like a sore thumb, Abhay Deol and Patralekha are fairly good, and it is a learning lesson as well
Let's not attend
to our mobile phones during travel, especially if we are driving the vehicle. I
doubt if we'll do that. But Nanu Ki Jaanu is screaming that we better
understand that we are not just risking our own lives by that--- but that of
others as well. Those who benefit from it will be the sensible lot
Still From Naanu Ki Jaanu
This light comedy
with a message by Faraz Haider is not just an eye-opener but engaging as well,
and could have scored better had it not been for its mediocre writing.
A few questions
that linger:
1) Why couldn't
the writing have been better? The dialogues are quite amateurish in parts.
Sampling just a few: a) Mummy hoon, mummypana toh karungi b) Bahut dar lag raha
hai, ek beer de na.
2) Why did
Patralekha do such a small role- almost a guest appearance? Doesn't this
actress deserve meat and not bone?
So yeah,
otherwise it's fine. Abhay Deol whose acting repertoire is large, does well---
but looks a shade disinterested in some frames. This man has been delightful at
comedy right from his debut Socha Na Tha and this time is no exception.
Abhay Deol With Patralekha
Patralekha, who
has often resembled Manisha Koirala, is clearly a very sincere actress and
complements Abhay in whatever few frames she has with him. A Delhi land mafia agent (Abhay Deol) tries to deal
with the arrival of a ghost in his apartment. But this ghost is
endearing, no prizes for guessing who she is.
The balance cast-
Brijendra Kala, Sapna Chaudhary, Manu Rishi Chadha, Rajesh Sharma- has a lot to
do with Abhay in every frame (I wish we had more of Patralekha with him
instead)- but they manage to do justice to their respective parts.
Still From Naanu Ki Jaanu
I am going with
THREE- an extra half for the message that the film conveys.
