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Monday, September 16, 2024
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BOLLYWOOD DUNNO Y NA JAANE KYUN
EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: **
As far as scrutinizing a gay relationship is concerned, this isn`t a patch on
Ang Lee`s "Brokeback Mountain". But still…it tries.
This fatally flawed look at the dark secrets of an Anglo-Indian family where the
single mother sleeps with her cheesy boss for lack of choice and the elder
married son with a child makes out with a man leaves us with some positive
thoughts.
"Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun" is the first Hindi film to look at a gay
relationship with some degree of dispassionate honesty. The script makes room
for approximately 22-24 characters, which includes the entire malfunctional
D`Souza family, their friends and lovers.
This is Sooraj Barjatya`s "Hum Saath Saath Hain" gone to seed! The
characters are not badly written. Even the performances are at times,
convincing. And it takes inhuman amounts of guts for two male actors to make
love on screen. Hats off to Kapil Sharma and newcomer Yuvraaj Parasher for
strolling into alternate sexuality with such naked earnestness.
However, earnestness per se is not a redeeming quality unless compounded with
creative conviction.
"Dunny Y" is high on drama, low on treatment and execution. Parts of
unfolding trauma in the dysfunctional family are so strenuously dramatized, you
wonder why director Sanjay Sharma did not go easy in the narration. Or why he
chose to have the characters speak in English when some of them, including the
film`s leading man Kapil Sharma, are ill-at-ease in the lingo.
The dialogues often come out more forced than forceful. The talented cast too is
unable to rise above the mundaneness of the material.
Zeenat Aman, as an abandoned wife and single mother, has the most interesting
character to play. She struggles hard to make her lines sound believable. But
she finally succumbs to pressures of pedestrianism that assail this well-meaning
but aberrant film from all sides.
While the explicit gay love-making sequences are done with a bravado that`s more
corny than candid, a sub-plot about the gay protagonist`s torrid affair with
brother-in-law (Maradona Rebello) has potential. But by the time the `neglected
wife` and the in-house `toyboy` get into a shower together, the passion and the
pain of a family on the edge, have all been washed away.
"Dunno Y…"is a brave and unorthodox look at a malfunctional family`s
efforts to come to terms with the dark secrets in the closet. The courageous
film looks at the question of forbidden desires. And the sheer pleasure of
watching Zeenat Aman and Helen is incentive enough to overlook the film`s fatal
flaws.
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