A good director in Bollywood is a rare phenomenon and a good director who has the courage to expose the ugly alacrity is rarer. You are drawn to a movie either by the cast of the movie, the title, or by the director. In this instance, it is the director, who has made some brilliant movie's like "Satta" and bummer like "Aan", nevertheless, Bhandarkar, is someone to watch in the plethora of pubescent directors making popsicle movies. The Cast is relatively unknown except for Atul Kulakarni and Boman Irani. Konkana Sen Sharma is relatively unknown except for a little known, albeit brilliant. movie called "Mr&Mrs Iyer" directed by her mother Aparna Sen, where she was phenomenal. Does she translate well to this movie? the answer is no. The one I feel that has emerged into an actor is Sandhya Mrinul as "Pearl" the blunt and feisty room mate. That is the point of this movie-what you see is not what you get. The elite and the handsome end up as society scumbags, pedophiles and gays. The not so likable crime beat journalist ends up with the best pearls of wisdom. The movie is past paced as in "Satta" except it is not the same caliber. The movie gives a feeling that it was put together in a hurry with shallow production. This is more apparent in the beginning where the camera does't linger too long on anyone nor a meaningful dialog uttered by someone. I do not see much potential for Konkana Sen Sharma since most of the time she has blank expressions. Boman Irani is fine actor and Atul Kulkarni who is probably one of the finest actors in Hindi Cinema-the likes of late Amrish Puri, albeit, the Scipt fails both. All said and done this a good movie but not artistically exuberant, in fact it belongs on Page 3.
