Hu Tu Tu is definitely worth a watch since it a good story and great acting from the entire ensemble. I was especially impressed with Tabu, Sunil Shetty, Nana Patekar, and Shivali Satham.
The story is about corruption in politics, how it divides families, hurts the little people and runs roughshod over anyone who gets in their way. It also tries to explain how individuals can be driven to horrendous acts and is quite shocking in spots. (INDIRECT SPOILER) One of those shocking acts had to do with the delivery of a message to tell a major politician that her daughter was kidnapped. Because the messenger was an innocent villager, it somewhat contradicted what the kidnappers were trying to accomplish and the message of the person they were trying to save and was one of the reasons for me to only give this film a 7 instead of a 9 which it could have very easily received.
Two other issues also lessened my enjoyment of the film. As much as I like Lata Mangeshkar, I feel that there are some roles where someone else should be the back-up singer and her voice was not even remotely close to Tabu's, especially from an age stand-point. Her voice sounds much older than the character.
My second issue and major pet peeve with Eros DVDs is that most of the DVDs, Hu Tu Tu included, do not include subtitles with the songs. It seems as if they feel that the lyrics are not important to the song or the film. In Hu Tu Tu, though, I feel that the lyrics and songs probably moved the story along, especially the songs with Nana Patekar. You could tell by what was going on in the song, that it was important but, without the subtitles, you can only guess. It is very frustrating and each time this happens, I wonder what the company who added the subtitles were thinking if they were thinking at all.
The story is about corruption in politics, how it divides families, hurts the little people and runs roughshod over anyone who gets in their way. It also tries to explain how individuals can be driven to horrendous acts and is quite shocking in spots. (INDIRECT SPOILER) One of those shocking acts had to do with the delivery of a message to tell a major politician that her daughter was kidnapped. Because the messenger was an innocent villager, it somewhat contradicted what the kidnappers were trying to accomplish and the message of the person they were trying to save and was one of the reasons for me to only give this film a 7 instead of a 9 which it could have very easily received.
Two other issues also lessened my enjoyment of the film. As much as I like Lata Mangeshkar, I feel that there are some roles where someone else should be the back-up singer and her voice was not even remotely close to Tabu's, especially from an age stand-point. Her voice sounds much older than the character.
My second issue and major pet peeve with Eros DVDs is that most of the DVDs, Hu Tu Tu included, do not include subtitles with the songs. It seems as if they feel that the lyrics are not important to the song or the film. In Hu Tu Tu, though, I feel that the lyrics and songs probably moved the story along, especially the songs with Nana Patekar. You could tell by what was going on in the song, that it was important but, without the subtitles, you can only guess. It is very frustrating and each time this happens, I wonder what the company who added the subtitles were thinking if they were thinking at all.