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Friday, April 19, 2024
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BOLLYWOOD TUM MILE
EDITOR'S PICK
Rating: * 1/2
The Mahesh Bhatt formula of live-in relationships, splintered
alliances, disastrous adventures in the big bad city and corruption in hyped
places, has completely run out of steam with Tum Mile.
A pointless saga of two soggy souls caught in Mumbai`s rains who know one
another long enough to know they are incompatible.
Arth with no worth.
Tum Mile is a long, pointless and rambling look at a ruptured
relationship between a working woman and a not-so-successful self-styled artiste
who is ceaselessly sullen about god knows what.
If we go back to the Bhatts` last celluloid sojourn Jashnn, the
struggling musician-hero in that film was no different from the grappling
artiste in Tum Mile. They both hate the world for being more
successful than they.
Emraan Hashmi attempts to infuse his trite and jaded character with a fair
amount of conviction. And Soha Ali Khan, playing his trying-hard-to-cope live-in
mate, comes out with a few moments which transcend the banal script. The script
is too bad and direction betrays an utter lack of newness and synergy in
exposing the underbelly of a contemporary relationship crumbling under
competitive pressures.
Incidentally, Soha lives alone in a sprawling mansion in Cape Town just waiting
for the loser-hero to move in. Her father drops in once a month. Where is he the
rest of the time? Probably researching on how to be a tycoon with a daughter who
shouldn`t be left alone.
Director Kunal Deshmukh`s earlier film Jannat traversed the same
man-woman territory with far more sensitivity. The screenplay in Tum
Mile allows the director little room to navigate his imagination in and
outside and the marital domain.
The whole blend of climatic and marital disaster falls apart very quickly. The
much-hyped scenes replicating Mumbai`s monsoonal deluge of July 26, 2005 are
clumsily conceived and executed with cardboard characters carrying out their
soggy karma in a watered-down waste-land.
The waist-deep drama just about sinks to a no-redemption level in a sequence
where the director copies a whole sequence from James Cameron`s
Titanic with a rush of lethal water chasing the couple in a
water-tight room.
It`s not just Soha and Emraan who get claustrophobic. The feeling of being
trapped in a no-win situation never leaves the audience. Most of the time the
narrative plods along without energy or drive.
One sincerely hopes Mahesh Bhatt was just going through a bad-hair day while
putting together this whiny tale of two people who deserve only one another.
They are so dreadfully boring from the outside. One hopes they find one another
slightly more inspiring.
'Jannat' star Emraan Hashmi and director Kunal Deshmukh will be collaborating again on a new project.'Jannat' clocked 10 years since its release, and the actor-director duo will reunite after four years for a project, details of which have been kept under wraps for the moment.Film critic and trade analyst, Taran Adarsh confirmed the news as he tweeted, "#Jannat celebrates 10th anniversary... Emraan Hashmi and director Kunal Deshmukh reunite... Announce their next film together... Co-produced by NR Pachisia... Written by Shridhar Raghavan."Read More
Somewhere in this storm a girl runs info her past Somewhere in this storm a man sifts the embers of a bound out love in this storm death waits for them
26th july 2005 - the day of the Mumbai floods- rings an amnious bell for most... but amidst the deluge, it reunites two star crossed ex-lovers. Two pepole who meet after a hiatus of 6years now occupying different worlds. Evidently, they have moved on... What starts off as a seemingly innocuous albert awkward encounter on a fight back to mumbai ends as a roller coaster ride through some of the darkest hours of Mumbai as they see the city swamped with disaster and loss and are forced to stick together in this time of crisis.
The story shifts perspective between their past and present.
A glorious but crazy past of 2 starkly different people falling in love differences at first being new and exciting. Gradually with time, they journey through the emotional pitfalls attached, the constant bickering, the frantic and urgent making up, and irreconcilable differences that give way to an inevitable seperation.
And a formidable present where the two come together, their fears and insecurities and past demons revealed while struggling to make their way through Mumbai`s stormiest night.
As emotions run high and disaster reigns supreme, will they survive the night that threatens to take over the city and all in it?
