This is the response to the movies that I watched last weekend.
Life Mein Kabhi Kabhi starting Aftab Shivdasani as Manish, Anjori Alag as Ishita, Dino Morea as Rajeev, Sameer Dattani as Jai and Nauheed Cyrusi as Monica.Main Link:
For Monica, being rich and having fame is happiness.
For Ishita, being a successful and having money is happiness.
For Jai, happiness means power.
For Rajeev, to be the best in what you do is all about happiness.
For Manish, it is about having one Rupee in hand and you can earn more by betting.
This movie is about five friends who want to reach their goal in only five years. On their graduation day after getting drunk, they ended up in jail where they placed a bet on who will be the happiest person in all after five years. Manish is the one who will decide who wins the bet and who the happiest out of all is.
In this movie, I saw how each individual was passionate to work hard to reach their destination. I also saw how Ishita and Monica took advantage of their femininity and use toward their goals. At first, I saw Monica, trapping this rich business tycoon who was a happily married man. She trapped him and made him get married to her by printing their affairs information on the highly published magazine. She got married to the rich man and gained fame and money.
Later, I saw Ishita keeping her body hostage to another man to reach her goal of being a successful film actress.
On the other hand, Jai used politics as a way to reach his goal. Rajeev used his brother’s business as a way to get successful and he creates his own empire.
After seeing this movie my reaction was null because I could not believe the fact that Ishita and Monica could go that far to reach their goal. Working hard toward your goal in an acceptable manner is a different scenario, but having to cheat on someone to reach to the final destination is disgusted.
The use of gaze in this movie played an important role. I saw Monica uses gaze to attract and grab attention between the crowds to make her way to this rich man’s heart. She also uses mischievous gaze to flirt with this rich man. Furthermore, I saw Ishita doing the same while being on the set in the movie.
On the other hands, Rajeev, Jai and Manish portray different kind of gaze such as angriness, frustration, egoistic gaze, and voyeuristic gaze when looking at women. The use of gender role was separated in this movie. Like I saw, Monica and Ishita used her body to reach their destination/goal, whereas all the men used their men powers and masculinity toward their goal such as being a business man and being in a politics show their masculinity and power to attain their goal.
Above all, I felt that this movie lacked reality because of the setting and the story line. This movie was very fast forward, although the topic was strong but in the beginning, I was introduced with the different characters fast. After that, they placed a bet and without wasting time any further, I saw how each individual chose certain routes to accomplish their goal. I felt that the director should have focused on one individual and should have given appropriate attention to the every little detail such as the background, lights and the costume. In this movie, I further notice that costumes of woman are short and glamorous. It felt to me that they were trying to show the actress body more then they were trying to tell us the story. Basically, I felt that this movie was mainly made for money reason rather than emphasizing and educating the audience about the severe consequence. This sometime can lead the youngster to no where besides making them fall down on their knee and making them regret and learn from their choices.