Dobara Alvida Review: The Swara Bhasker And Gulshan Devaiah Starrer Is A Dead Giveaway
Here’s our review of the short film Dobara Alvida. It stars Swara Bhasker Gulshan Devaiah and Swapnil Kotriwar. The large short film is directed by Shashank S Singh
Swara Bhaskar and Gulshan Devaiah are actors who always make sure they are able to instill some credibility beyond the script to their characters. They try their utmost to keel the interest level from flagging. But it doesn’t take us time to see where this brief road movie is going. Nowhere.
The conversation between the former lovers is stilted to begin with. They then warm up. The Uber-cool driver chips in, “This cab has proved lucky for you two. It has reunited long-lost friends.”Swara then politely asks the cabbie (a more interesting character than his passengers) if he is married. She then gets to crack a feeble and offensive joke about the cab driver and his wife’s name.
Clearly, this conversation is not getting anywhere. In the next few moments, we get to know that Swara likes sweets, is wearing earrings (hideous ones at that) gifted by Gulshan, and that she reads his horoscope in the mornings, just to feel connected with him. We finally get to know that they separated because she was actively domineering while he was passively domineering.
I don’t know what the driver’s response to this psycho-babble would be…perhaps, ‘Cabbie Cabbie mere dil mein khayaal aata hai’?
We don’t know. The ride has ended. And Arjit Singh’s soulful title song (which I suspect is the reason why this short film about a long taxi ride was made) begins…But wait! That’s not Arjit Singh. It is some sound-alike called Krsna Solo. A dead-ringer in a short film with a title that is a dead giveaway. It can’t get any deadlier than this.
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