Saas Bahu Aur Sensex is a Bollywood - movie
directed by Shona Urvashi.
Starring Tanushree Dutta,Kiron Kher,Ankur Khanna,Farooque Shaikh,Masumeh Makhija,Lillete Dubey,Sharon Prabhakar,Mukta Barve,Seema Azmi.
To be fair, putting together saas-bahu sagas and the sensex
seems a good concept, but director Shona Urvashi fails to use it effectively in
her film.
In recent years, Bollywood has been generous to directors who experimented with
novel concepts and the audiences too accepted their films. Saas Bahu Aur
Sensex dares to be different as it tells the story of middle-class
housewives playing the stock market.
The film has its moments but not sufficient to make it engrossing fare.
Saas Bahu Aur Sensex is the story of a rude and insensitive Parsi
stockbroker Firoze Sethna (Farooque Shaikh), divorced Binita Sen (Kirron Kher)
and a group of women.
The director inter-weaves a love triangle into the main plot.
Nitya (Tanushree Dutta), Binita`s daughter, shifts to Mumbai with her mother and
meets Ritesh (Ankur Khanna) who helps her in getting a job at a call centre.
Ritesh is in love with Kirti (Masumeh Makhija) who lives in the same society.
But Kirti has other plans, she wants to marry a millionaire.
Despite the presence of the two veteran actors, Kirron and Farooque, the film
fails to hold the audiences` attention. The reason being that the director fails
to execute the story deftly and characters aren`t properly etched.
Farooque, who had almost disappeared from the big screen, chose a wrong movie to
make his comeback. As far as Kirron goes, in the recent past she has chosen all
the wrong films and her talent is not utilised in this film either.
Tanushree provides the oomph content, but neither she nor Masumeh, who was in
Shona`s first film Chup Ke Se!, impress.
Others like Lillete Dubey, Sharon Prabhakar are wasted too.
In short, the film is a failed attempt to make the saas-bahu and sensex topics
into a heady mix.
A Story of finding love and finding a place in the masala of the New Mumbai world, with stock market fluctuations, kitty parties, soap operas and the changing tides of New India.