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Cast:
Dino Morea, Milind Soman, Sheetal Menon, |
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Simone Singh, Chetan Hansraj |
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Year:
2008 |
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Music:
Raghav Sachar |
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Choreographer:
Ganesh Acharya |
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Screenplay:
Bhavani Iyer |
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Presenter:
Nari Hira |
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Banner:
Magna Films |
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Producer:
Nari Hira |
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Director:
Pawan Kaul |
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Watch
Bhram and your mind races back to the mid-eighties when you
made movies on videos. Where you launched actors like
Deepshika, Jeet Upendra and Aditya Panscholi. They were not
great movies but were good to watch and had interesting
stories to tell. Of course, those days, videos were a craze
and I guess those movies made big business. But BHRAM? I
guess as the translation suggests, is just one big illusion.
But was it an illusion when you set out to film this movie,
or did it become one along the way when you realized there
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Really Mr Hira, what exactly did you set out trying
to do? Was it a video movie you had in mind, or a
broader canvass? Because when you see the movie, one
can feel the small screen format in place. Most of
the characters and sets are even dressed up the way
a television set is, not a grand 70mm movie set. The
dialogues, at best are juvenile, with Fs and Bs and
hard-ons thrown in for impact. Sadly, you cringe
when the characters mouth these so-called 'adult
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There has
to be finesses in the way the dialogues are mouthed and the
characters have to be given a believable situation for them
to speak the way they do. Watching Chetan Hansraj and Dino
Morea and Sheetal Menon mouth Fs and Bs, I am taken back to
my college days when this language was used to impress our
peers; to announce loudly that you had 'arrived'. But then
you move on. As for the characters, the less said the
better. Sheetal Menon may be a good model, but she does not
have that necessary skill to convey her presence on
screen. Or I dare say she has not been presented well? Only
Simone Singh stands tall among the ruins of this illusion. |
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As for the music and background score, it gives one
a headache. Finally, the plot is wafer thin, even
the end is not convincing. I mean, if Milind Soman
has not murdered the girl, why does his brother and
his wife walk away from him? That was an accident,
damn it!!!! And the flashback showed he was wronged.
Also, I fail to understand why Milind got the old
photographer killed when he (Milind) was innocent.
All he had to do was tell the truth. But no, the
illusion had to carry on and the pain of the viewers
prolonged. |
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Hope the movies lined up for release in future get
out of the illusion mode, because I believe you have a grand
style and are capable of better stuff. You are the one who
introduced glamour journalism and 'in-your-face' film
reporting through your various products. The media is just
cloning what you started decades ago. You are a visionary,
you think ahead of your time. |
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