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Mirza Juuliet Movie Review

Mirza Juuliet Movie Review

The film is Raunchy, rugged and rebellious

Director: Rajesh Ram Singh

Cast: Darshan Kumaar, Pia Bajpai and Chandan Roy Sanyal

Rating: 1/2

Plot

More than midway into the turbulent take on the destiny of star-crossed lovers on the run, the Uttar Pradesh ki Juliet aka Julie, who has been raped by her sexed-up fiance, is told by her father-like elder brother to calm down.”I shouldn’t be saying this. But my sister, you are so pretty. Any man would get carried away,” giggles big brother Priyanshu Chatterjee anxiously, unwilling to break an alliance that means huge political gains for him and his family. This is normal procedure in a section of the Cow Belt. Make the daughter a sacrificial cow for your personal gains. And when she shows more spirit than that bottle on the table, kill her. Family honour, you know.

Review

This is one of the more disturbing moments in film that’s plotted like a wildly cascading stream toppling and tumbling across a craggy path before crashing to a halt in a state of exhausted exaltation. “Mirza Juuliet” is a love saga on constant heat. Its protagonists are not afraid to discuss sex. And it’s refreshing to see the heroine (Pia Bajpai), a sexed-up version of Parineeti Chopra in Habib Faisal’s “Ishaqzaade”, bluntly asking her renegade Romeo(Darshan Kumaar, gentle yet persuasive) if he has ever had sex.

It’s also refreshing to see a Hindu-Muslim love story where the lovers’ religious identity is never really an issue. Their social status is. The sexual bluntness of the film is a major asset. It gives to the otherwise-modest narration a voluptuous fulsome look. “Mirza Juuliet” is like a Land Rover ploughing through a muddy bumpy road in pursuit of a dragon that needs to be slain before it turns around to devour the film’s energetic overtures indicating minds that want to leap higher than conventional love stories, but are not always able to negotiate that chasm that separates will from target.

Director Rajesh Ram Singh has done an original, sometimes vigorous, otherwise limp and sagging, take on the Romeo-Juliet/Mirza-Sahibaan sagas. He mixes and matches the two love legends with wild creative aspirations. Sometimes, the blend of the familiar and the unexplored is glaring in its mismatch. The film’s ever-horny villain-clown played with over-the-top gusto by Chandan Roy Sanyal, never knows when to be the jester and when the rapist.

Last Word

Darshan, memorable as Mary Kom’s compassionate husband and the honour-killer brother in “NH10”, brings a quiet strength to the role of the troubled Muslim youth who is tired of being used as a political pawn. Pia Bajpai is all over the place. She is brash and bawdy. Not the kind of girl you would want to invite to your daughter’s wedding. The loud colours, the flamboyant storytelling and characters who have no respect for the law of the land have all been seen before. This film is still fun to watch. Give it a shot.

Manoj L

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