The writing is clunky and that Parsi accent is worse than Farah Khan’s accent in Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi. Swaroop Sampat’s turn as a dementia-afflicted Parsi woman in Rakesh Sain’s Nano So Phobia is a big disappointment. This one is almost like a get-well-soon card in a short-film format. The dialogues sound like commercials for holiday tours and the performances including the central one by Rima Kallingal are way too crested. The third story Sunny Side Upar directed by Vijayeta Kumar set in a cancer hospital tries too hard to be buoyant and upbeat. She not only sleeps with her callous husband(Sanjay Kapoor)’s rakish partner (Jitin Gulati) she even uses that extra-marital affair to turn the tables on her husband in ways that are way too conveniently liberating.The story suffers from a surfeit of male-bashing but Ms Dutta’s performance is redemptive if not as liberating as the character’s swing-around from doormat to butterfly. This is one of the better stories of this anthology.ĭivya Dutta’s awakening in Sleeping Partner is far more startling. In Pinni Neena Gupta is in splendid form as a neglected matriarch whose skills at making laddoos are all she is recognized for by her near and dear(?) ones, until the moment of awakening which such stories of food feminism burst out with, like a kitchen stove suddenly on high flame.Ms Kashyap shoots most of the story on a slow-burn flame letting her actress lead the way. And why not? When you have Neena Gupta and Divya Dutta helming a story on brazen manbaiting, the endresult is a foregone conclusion. The first two stories Pinni directed by Tahira Kashyap and Sleeping Partner by Punarvasu Naik, feature the best leading performance. But some of this anthology did leave a little dent in my consciousness.
I wasn’t quite cheering for them at the end of every story. There are 7 stories here, a majority of them with female protagonists standing at a decisive moment in their personal history. Here’s an anthology of short stories with an exaggerated sense of selfworth, an omni-‘fuss’ if you will, which largely works, though it fails at crucial moments.
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