Dus Kahaniyaan movie rating and review

Dus Kahaniyaan (2007) Movie Rating and Review :

So near yet so far

Amammoth cast, the best of bollywood’s new-age directors and a virtually unexplored genre― and yet there is something significant missing in Das Kahaniyaan. So near and yet so far is the phrase that came to mind after sitting through this ambitious multistarrer.

If the 10-in-one film takes a significant step forward from the industry’s previous attempt at episodic films, then it also shows that bollywood still has some way to go before it can manage to tie up 10 loose ends.

The biggest problem plaguing Dus Kahaniyaan is its lack of consistency. There are some very gripping, some not-so-gripping and some downright ordinary stories packed into this two-hour film. So if the Mandira Bedi – Arbaaz Khan starrer Matrimony and Zahir with Monoj Bajpai and Dia Mirza border on the brilliant, then Rice Plate and Gubbare are rendered watch able just by the sheer intensity of the performances. The once that classify as real damp squibs are Jimmy Sheirgill’s High on the Highway, Lovedale starring Aftab Shivdasani and Neha Uberoi and the much-touted Dino Morea short story Sex on the Beach.

Things also get significantly heavier after the interval with the more “serious” stories being packed in one after the other. So if the first half whets the audience’s appetite for more, then the post-interval portions are the letdown. The Sanjay Dutt- Snneil Shetty track ― ambitiously placed at the end ― Seems to be a watered down, 10-minute version of another Sanjay Gupta film, Musafir.

Predictably, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Nana patekar take the top action honours while Manoj Bajpai is also very good. The rest, more or less, does what the script requires of them. Only Suneil Shetty manages to ham even in a five-minute role!

While the 2006 episodic film Paris, je t’aime (Paris, I Love You) consisted of 20 stories helmed by 22 directors, Dus Kahaniyaan has six people in the director’s chair, with producer Sanjay Gupta directing the maximum number of them. Two parts of one particular film (Rise and Fall)have been directed by two directors― another first for Bollywood.

The novelty of the genre as well as the big names in acting will work in Dus Kahaniyaan’s favour for a start. If nothing else, Dus Kahaniyaan marks the return of the Naseer-Shabana magic.

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