Hema Malini swings between playing a stalker and a lurking cougar in Ramesh Sippy's outdated comedy
Prior to the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, Hema Malini's road campaign in Mathura produced some of the best memes of the year. Among them, my favorite Malini, bowing under a haystack, was contained by a frail old lady. Shimla Mirchi is the movie version of this meme where Malini is the movie and the old lady is the script.
Ramesh Sippy's latest movie made 25 years after the previous movie, has been in the refrigerator for over five years and finally found distribution. There is an inevitable fear that the film and the director will look old, and the results do not disappoint. Although the film is shot in close-up, brightly colored frames intended for television viewing and with random clips submitted for editing, the film's most anachronistic elements are its screenplay, screenplay, and performance. The old-fashioned tale might have acted as a throwback or tribute to Bollywood's traditional flawed comedy or love affair at first glance, but Shimla Mirchi with her exaggerated storytelling cliches would still be considered among the most avoidable films, even if released in the US. 90 years.
Although the action on paper is progressive. Rukmini (Malini) refuses to sign divorce papers, even though her husband lives with a 27-year-old girl and pursues him frighteningly (including climbing a tree to look at his room.) Their daughter, Naina (Rakul Preet Singh) desperately wants, that her mother should move on so that she passes on the love letters written by her anonymous admirer Avinash (Rajkummar Rao) to her mother. Rukmini instantly falls in love with these letters and wants to date Rao who is half her age. The supposedly funny plot is so flat that the funniest part of the movie is the location of Kent's water purification meta products, which Malini supports in real life.
The veteran actor and politician are quite embarrassing in the film. After playing the discouraged wife in the first half, she has to become a seductive cougar in the second half. Your idea of looking young is to wear ghungroos and wear sleeveless blouses with your sarees. The embarrassment is so palpable that it almost overshadows how extra Singh is in this film. Singh's character has to be a trademark, but her reaction areas if she has withdrawal symptoms. At one point, your reaction to a cheater employed in your cafe is to break the chandelier. As for Rao, it is heartening to see that he has come a long way from Shimla Mirchi.
The film's only saving grace is that it, as troublesome as comedy, never enters the obscure territory, as it suggests from the start. It ends with lovely participation by Sholay (1975). Maybe you can quickly move on to see this when it falls on OTT platforms, which seem to be the natural home of all the frozen and homeless Bollywood movies struggling to find distributors.
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