Yeh Saali Zindagi

It is 1.00 A.M. on a Saturday morning, i have just returned from watching the late night show of Yeh Saali Zindagi, i have an exam first thing in the morning, but this review can’t wait.

The story is primarily about 2 men, trying hard to hold on to their respective love interest, and how different people and different situations arise between then and how the two different stories starts getting intertwined to each other. Irfan Khan plays the role of a money laundering agent who loves Chitrangda Singh, who is ready to stake everything for her, even though she doesn’t love her, Arunoday Singh who has just been released from Tihar Jail, and is now looking at starting a new life with his beautiful wife and kid.

This movie is the closest Bollywood has ever come near ‘Noir Cinema'. People may feel the movie has its share of Abuses, but this is not a family movie anyhow, characters in the movie have a lot of grey shades, a lot of movies doesn’t give a lot of importance to supporting actors, but this movie scores heavily on this point, be it the character of corrupt cop Sushant Singh, or the role of Irfan Khan’s boss, played by Saurabh Shukla, or Yashpal Sharma as ‘Bade’ or Prashant Narayanan as ‘Chote’, everyone makes a mark.

Irfan Khan is just awesome, the cool with which he plays the role is adorable, Arunoday Singh is a talent to watch out for, Aditi Rao was last seen as Ramaa Bua in Delhi-6, people may even fail to recognize her due to the fact that her role in this movie is complete contrast, Chitrangda Singh gives a decent performance, Prashant Narayanan is having tremendous potential, as shown by him in his previous movies (‘Waisa bhi hota hai’ and ‘Chhal’), but he was not fully utilised here, he deserved a few more scenes.

Altogether solid performances, good story, witty dialogues and abuses, makes the movie ‘must watch’* on my list. Hats off Mr. Sudhir Mishra.

*Not for families.