Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
Starring Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra
Director Dibakar Bannerjee
After a really shaky prologue—the film begins with a bunch of louts in a moving car crackling over sexist jokes about women wearing lipstick, obviously shot in a studio with clumsy back projection—Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar gathers its wits midway, to deliver a last 45 minutes which are most effective, though not brilliant.
This is the problem with Dibakar Bannerjee’s long-delayed homespun Bonnie & Clyde. It means well, but it falls short of expectations, perhaps its own expectations more than ours. The writing by Bannerjee and the redoubtable Varun Grover is sinewy muscular and adventurous. Pitching two warring co-travellers in a journey away from trouble is nothing new. The treatment of the weatherworn subject is sometimes surprising, at other times plain exasperating.
After getting over the juvenile irony of the hero with a feminine name Pinky and...
Starring Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra
Director Dibakar Bannerjee
After a really shaky prologue—the film begins with a bunch of louts in a moving car crackling over sexist jokes about women wearing lipstick, obviously shot in a studio with clumsy back projection—Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar gathers its wits midway, to deliver a last 45 minutes which are most effective, though not brilliant.
This is the problem with Dibakar Bannerjee’s long-delayed homespun Bonnie & Clyde. It means well, but it falls short of expectations, perhaps its own expectations more than ours. The writing by Bannerjee and the redoubtable Varun Grover is sinewy muscular and adventurous. Pitching two warring co-travellers in a journey away from trouble is nothing new. The treatment of the weatherworn subject is sometimes surprising, at other times plain exasperating.
After getting over the juvenile irony of the hero with a feminine name Pinky and...
- 3/23/2021
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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