Gunaah:
Except
for Bipasha ...
Starring
Bipasha Basu and
Dino Morea (both
were together in
Raaz) this Mahesh
Bhatt thriller disappoints
as a love story
and action film.
Imagine
Bipasha Basu, playing
a cop, falling in
love with a criminal,
a murderer in fact.
She catches up with
Dino and throes
him behind the bars,
but is finally caught
by his charms. A
most unconvincing
story and badly
narrated. But Bipasha's
performance is quite
good.
American
Desi
A
film from Hollywood
about NRI youngsters'
life. What's it
doing in India?
It may afford a
distorted glimpse
of US-born children
of Indian origin
struggling to be
Americans on their
school campus, though
the real ones are
hardly to be seen
in the movie. There
is Kris Reddy who
hates 'aarti' -
an Indian mother's
way to send off
her boy to school
- and chicken tikka
masala - the world
famous curry NRIs
are known for.
Reddy's
cup of woe is full
when the girl he
falls with insists
on being typically
Indian, which she
was. So he learns
'Bhangra' and 'Garba'
out of love for
her! Poor boy.
-by
Our Film Critic
October 7, 2002
