I associate Kukunoor's movies mainly with contemporary characters and colloquial dialog. Maybe he's watching too many Ekta Kapoor soap operas nowadays, but I couldn't help but notice run-of-the-mill Bollywood style in this movie. Though the subject of the movie is inventive and not threadbare Bollywood bovine excrement, somehow he has failed to show the same inventiveness in direction. Though Talpade, Karnad, and Kukunoor himself tried their best to put life into their characters, the characters failed them. The background score was decent but appears non-synchronous with the movie many times.
Bottom line: This movie stands head and shoulders above usual Bollywood movies, not because the movie is exceptional but because Bollywood movies are usually unexceptional!
Bottom line: This movie stands head and shoulders above usual Bollywood movies, not because the movie is exceptional but because Bollywood movies are usually unexceptional!