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Yun Hota To Kya Hota

Not as unforgettable as many of Naseer's performances but as a maiden effort it's neat. Look forward to his next.

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Yun Hota To Kya Hota
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When an actor turns director, it’s only too natural for him to focus on the performances. Naseeruddin Shah does the same. Yun Hota shows him up as an actor’s director. It is driven by strong acting even in the minutest of roles with Konkana, Paresh Rawal and Ratna Shah taking the lead. Then there’s Naseer’s son Imaduddin who plays to the gallery as the shuddh-Hindi speaking youngster. And Suhasini Mulay who sheds her filmi-mother image to play a uber-sexy diva.

The film is about four different sets of individuals whose lives intersect on 9/11. There are the just-married Tilottama and Hemant (Konkana, Jimmy Shergill). Hemant has to rush back to work in America soon after their wedding and Tilo is left coping with his neurotic family till she packs her bags to the US herself. Rahul Bhide (Ankur), is a poor, bright boy, off to study in the US with a little help from Ayesha, his nice, rich friend. Rajubhai (Paresh) is a Gujju agent who ‘exports’ people to America by making them part of fake cultural troupes. Irrfan is stockbroker Salim who is made to flee to the US by his mafia don mom Saroj Khan to escape getting wrongly framed in a cop’s murder.

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Naseer handles it all with competence and confidence. Not every strand seems well-elaborated, a lot is merely hinted at, like the love between Ayesha and Ankur or Paresh and Ratna. Not every character is given much attention. For instance, you might have wanted to see more of Saroj Khan but then she is not the fulcrum of the film. Naseer essentially wants to glance at the quirks of fate, the many ironies of our individual and collective destinies and the micro repercussions that lie embedded in the larger macrocosm of a disaster. He backs it with some nicely ironic lines like "the best patriot is the one who remits dollars back to India".

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But, the film does not succeed entirely. The finale is obvious, abrupt and dissatisfying, particularly the farcical goings-on inside the infamous American Airways Boston-LA flight. Yun Hota is not as unforgettable as many of Naseer’s performances but as a maiden effort it’s neat. I would look forward to his next.

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1. Golmaal
2. Krrish
3. The Killer
4. Corporate
5. Phir Hera Pheri

Hollywood
1. Pirates of the Caribbean ll
2. Monster House
3. Lady in the Water
4. You, Me and Dupree
5. Little Man

Reggae
1. A Girl Like Me (Rihanna)
2. The Best of UB40 (UB40)
3. Welcome to Jamrock (Damian Marley)
4. Swinging the Blues... (Jools Holland)
5. Africa Unite (Bob Marley)

Courtesy: Film Information

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