![]() ![]() Besides movies this festival is famous for its exhibitions, concerts and meetings with international artists. They select films which are either widely acclaimed by critics and viewers or films which became a part of the canon of the worlds most important LGBT production. This festival is one of the most important event on the cultural map of Poland. But still…it (function() ) Mumbai: The triumphant journey of internationally acclaimed Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun seems never ending! After getting screened at major countries and festivals of New York, Houston, London, Sydney, Oslo, Athens, Cologne, Dortmund, Switzerland, Israel, Alta, Italy, Mumbai, New Delhi, Nashik it is now getting screened at the prestigious festival of Warsaw in Poland. And the sheer pleasure of watching Zeenat Aman and Helen is incentive enough to overlook the film's fatal flaws.įilm: "Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun" Cast: Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, Helen, Kapil Sharma, Yuvraaj Parasher, Maradona Rebello, Rituparna Sengupta, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal, Asha Sachdev Director: Sanjay Sharma.Īs far as scrutinizing a gay relationship is concerned, this isn't a patch on Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain". The courageous film looks at the question of forbidden desires. "Dunno Y…"is a brave and unorthodox look at a malfunctional family's efforts to come to terms with the dark secrets in the closet. But by the time the 'neglected wife' and the in-house 'toyboy' get into a shower together, the passion and the pain of a family on the edge, have all been washed away. While the explicit gay love-making sequences are done with a bravado that's more corny than candid, a sub-plot about the gay protagonist's torrid affair with brother-in-law (Maradona Rebello) has potential. But she finally succumbs to pressures of pedestrianism that assail this well-meaning but aberrant film from all sides. She struggles hard to make her lines sound believable. Zeenat Aman, as an abandoned wife and single mother, has the most interesting character to play. ![]() The talented cast too is unable to rise above the mundaneness of the material. The dialogues often come out more forced than forceful. Or why he chose to have the characters speak in English when some of them, including the film's leading man Kapil Sharma, are ill-at-ease in the lingo. Parts of unfolding trauma in the dysfunctional family are so strenuously dramatized, you wonder why director Sanjay Sharma did not go easy in the narration. "Dunny Y" is high on drama, low on treatment and execution. However, earnestness per se is not a redeeming quality unless compounded with creative conviction. Hats off to Kapil Sharma and newcomer Yuvraaj Parasher for strolling into alternate sexuality with such naked earnestness. And it takes inhuman amounts of guts for two male actors to make love on screen. Even the performances are at times, convincing. This is Sooraj Barjatya's "Hum Saath Saath Hain" gone to seed! The characters are not badly written. The script makes room for approximately 22-24 characters, which includes the entire malfunctional D'Souza family, their friends and lovers. "Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun" is the first Hindi film to look at a gay relationship with some degree of dispassionate honesty. This fatally flawed look at the dark secrets of an Anglo-Indian family where the single mother sleeps with her cheesy boss for lack of choice and the elder married son with a child makes out with a man leaves us with some positive thoughts.
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