What you see is not what is…and what is is not what you see. Starting with the “got you!” title all the way through to the end this movie is a playground for gender role bending in more than one way. Men and women are depicted with predictable characteristics in Hindi cinema since eons. Sometimes a director will take a stab at undoing that conditioning with a bad attempt like Ki and Ka and then there are directors like Dibakar Banerjee who bring a unique playfulness to it. Don’t ask me why it’s always Arjun Kapoor who begs the lead roles for ‘gender twists’.
Two people from completely different walks of life have one goal: escape the country and head to Nepal. One is running away from a crime of creating a Ponzi scheme at a bank. The other’s crime is unknown (I wish there was a more context on it) but the enemy is the same.
Together, they end up in a mountain village near the Nepal border where they meet a very Indian couple acted by Neena Gupta and Raghubir Yadav. The scenes of these four people living together are some of my favorite. The gender differences come to light quite starkly and despite each of the characters being so different the hint of bonding doesn’t go unnoticed.
Despite many delightful role reversal moments there are some slightly unrealistic ones but they serve the plot so I’ll take them with a grain of salt.
Not one actress/actor has left any stone unturned. I was particularly surprised by Arjun Kapoor who I don’t normally remember as a great character actor.
At times I felt the story needed more time to be told but I’ll take a good short story over a long drab one. (7/10)
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