Zain, with his restrained ruminative romanticism, makes you overlook the film's bleaker bits - the repetitive use of the Whatsapp theme to drive in the point of how contemporary relationships are driven in to the zone of tenability on the Smartphone.Īfter a point, those pings on the screen just begin to seem annoying. His command over the Urdu language and the sher-o-shayari that his radio jockey's character is insistently required to spill into the scanty screenplay, is even more impressive, especially in today's cinema where our heroes "think" in English. His command over his character's dithering emotional graph is impressive. Zain Khan Durrani is most decidedly a prized find. It's Alfaaz's good fortune that his misfortune is portrayed by an abundantly emotive new actor. Hint: It is to do with a pretty bright 15-yearold girl Chhavi played by Shefali Chauhan. In the movie, Alfaaz suffers in abundance for a guilty secret that he harbours from his teens. Onir shoots his love stories in the pitiless heartland where he succeeds in ferreting out a bedrock of compassion while his protagonists, melancholic but smiling misfits of the metropolis, struggle with their isolation and suffering. There is a lot of 'ping' in the pain of mutually shared hurt between the pair as they exchange messages on the phone that they find very entertaining. In "Kuch Bheege Alfaaz", the traditional tearfulness associated with the emotions of hurt, pain, betrayal, isolation and guilt are alchemized into a warm-hearted, frothy-but-never-frivolous look at how craggily man-woman relationships pan out in the city. The love that grows between two wounded people trapped in the numbing bustle of the metropolis, Kolkata (it was Delhi in Onir's previous film "Shab") - is not uncharted territory in the cinema of emotional diaspora that Onir has constantly explored in "Life in a. In his latest directorial venture, the prolific and insightful director Onir probes wounds that never heal. Film: "Kuch Bheege Alfaaz" Director: Onir Cast: Zain Khan Durrani, Geetanjali Thapa Rating: ***1/2
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