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Steal a few moments for this no ordinary love story
IF YOU ask for 'Bas Ek' reason to see 'Bas Ek Pal', it would sure be Juhi Chawla. And if you succeed in managing a few 'pals' to walk into Rajkaran Theatre, where the film is released this Friday, you will certainly experience thoroughly cinematic memorable 'Pals' galore all through the 120-minute so movie.
IF YOU ask for 'Bas Ek' reason to see 'Bas Ek Pal', it would sure be Juhi Chawla.
And if you succeed in managing a few 'pals' to walk into Rajkaran Theatre, where the film is released this Friday, you will certainly experience thoroughly cinematic memorable 'Pals' galore all through the 120-minute so movie.
A distinctively love story, the movie, released after much wait here locally, is all about passionate encounters between the restless and violent characters looking for a place to rest their uncertain hearts.
Starring accomplished actors and not big stars, the very commercial film opens to a plot where after spending years abroad Nikhil (Sanjay Suri) walks into the crowded place of pleasure and his life changes. He meets the mercurial Anamika (Urmila Matondkar) who teases, flirts and reduces Nikhil to a lifetime of slavery.
Quite similar to another so-called Juhi's art movie wonder, Teen Diwarain', this film has also all characters (plots) linked with one another in a way.
Even the men, Nikhil and Rahul (Jimmy Shergill), share complex, ambiguous relationships.
In one notable moment of tormented confession, Nikhil tears off his shirt in front of the paraplegic Rahul and confesses he was raped in jail. But the crime for which Nikhil went to jail is deflected to another even darker character, the spouse-beating Steve (Rehaan Engineer) whose heartbreakingly fragile wife Ira (Juhi Chawla) wants to leave him but can only be liberated in death. Even the ostensibly free-willed Anamika opts for compassion (the crippled Rahul) over passion (the incarcerated Nikhil). She silently suffers Rahul's bitter taunts. The plot reminds us of Preity Zinta of Karan Johar's 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'. So what if the relationship here is done in far darker tones.
One of the more absorbing side-shows in this drama of muted feelings is the dark undertones that are applied to every character's conscience. None of the five characters are a happy person. Sachin Kumar's camera captures the conflicts of the characters in striking silhouettes and dark contours. The hints and whispers created through the lens go a long way in detailing the inner world of the pain-lashed characters.
"Juhi in a grey character is as good as in her other routine bubbly roles," says co-producer, media advisor and a local businessman PN Tandon. (Another reason that should drive you to Rajkaran cinema).
Besides, being no ordinary love story, the USP of the film are its exceptionally good numbers sungs by versatile KK.
The movie is produced by Shailesh Singh and Manohar Kanungo.
