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Prince revolves around one man who was once the world’s savviest thief and on the hit list of many federal services – India I Grip and the CBI. One fine morning, Prince wakes up only to realize he has a gunshot wound on his arm and doesn’t remember a thing from the past. Perplexed and disturbed, he sets out to find out his real identity and comes across a girl Maya who claims to be his girlfriend. The more he gets closer to his identity; he encounters two more girls who also claim to be his girlfriend Maya. This makes him feel more conscious about his steps and he realizes that no one could be trusted. How does he unveil the secret behind his memory loss, save his life and save the world, forms the story of Prince.
Inspired from several Hollywood and Indian films from the past, Kookie Gulati has come up with a concept that had immense potential. But Prince suffers mainly because it doesn’t completely pass of as a sci-fi action thriller or a superhero film. It is just yet another masala pot-boiler that defines nothing with too many cinematic liberties, cliched scenes and silly dialogues…
Prince is not a shoddy effort but the inconsistency in maintaining the high IQ makes the whole endeavor look hopeless. If storing someone’s memory in chip sounds, sounds a bit of a stretch of imagination, then tracing the villain to the Afghan-Pakistan border by hiding a device in the villain’s shoes during a simple fight sounds ridiculous. Also what with him having super human abilities? Isn’t it a complete shift of idea? However, the film has its share of positives too.
Plenty of well-choreographed action sequences with chases and fist fights. The film is also entangled within lots of twists and turns that keeps you hooked with its thrill quotient. The first half breezes by, the second is senseless but doesn’t bore. Action director Allan Aamin and cinematographer Vishnu Rao are the real heroes here. Academy Award winner Resul Pookutty’s sound design matches big budget Hollywood flicks.
When it comes to performances, Vivek Oberoi finally does justice to his talent. He is good in his action sequences but hams a bit when it comes to expressing emotions. Except for Nandana Sen, who carries her role with ease, the other two Maya’s have nothing much to do… Isaiah, the new villain of Bollywood, looks ferocious and is good on debut.
To sum up, Prince entertains in bits and pieces. The film has opened to a very good response at the box office. The morning shows were full and many were seen applauding the action sequences. Watch it if you have nothing to do this weekend, else wait for the video release.
Cast & Crew:
Cast: Vivek Oberoi , Aruna Murty , Nandana Sen , Niroo Singh , Isaiah, Sanjay Kapoo, Dalip Tahil , Manish Anand , Mayur Puri, Rajesh Khattar, Mohit Chauhan
Producer: Tips Industries Ltd
Direction: Kookie V Gulati
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Cast: Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Chigasu Takaku and Moushmi Chatterjee
Director: Aparna Sen
How much you enjoy Aparna Sen’s The Japanese Wife is directly proportionate to how patient you are.
In the age of instant messaging, this is an old world epistolary romance. And it unfolds at approximately the same speed with which a letter moves from Japan to a village in the Sunderbans.
The film is slow to the point of being painful. And yet, if you stay with it, The Japanese Wife is a rewarding experience. It’s rich with yearning and sadness and yet hopeful, in a quiet way.
Based on a short story by Kunal Basu, The Japanese Wife is about Snehamoy Chatterjee, played by Rahul Bose, a meek Mathematics teacher in a village and his Japanese pen-pal Miyagi.
Both are lonely souls who cannot communicate with people around them but somehow establish a cross-continental connection with each other.
After several years of letters, she proposes marriage. He accepts. This unusual relationship becomes even more difficult when a young widow, Sandhya, played by Raima Sen, moves into Snehamoy’s house. But despite these seemingly insurmountable odds, Snehamoy and Miyagi stay soul-mates until the end.
This isn’t a love story with grand sweep and passion. It’s a minimalist rendering of a chaste, almost surreal love. But Sen makes us believe in it because she tells the story with great empathy and affection.
It will take you a good half hour to get settled into the tale. In the first fifteen minutes, the action almost completely unfolds in the form of letters that Snehamoy and Miyagi write to each other. Their heavily accented English voice-overs are clumsy and distracting.
The Bengali portions of the film are sub-titled but in some scenes, the yellow sub-titles are difficult to read. You are likely to get extremely restless—at the show I was at, one person succumbed to loud snoring—but as I said before, hang in there.
Because The Japanese Wife will grow on you. It has a simplicity and sweetness that is rare in these cacophonous times.
The leads – Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and Moushmi Chatterjee as Snehamoy’s boisterous aunt – hold the film together with strong performances. Sen also uses the landscape effectively. The swelling and ebbing river that dictates so much of Snehamoy’s existence seems to echo his life.
A quiet surface hides the turbulence beneath. Snehamoy’s life is heart-breaking and yet his devotion and the sustenance he gets from Miyagi’s letters suggest that it is perhaps better to have loved and never met rather than never to have loved at all.
The Japanese Wife is an acquired taste. But if you’re the type of viewer who is willing to sacrifice pacing for poignance, I recommend you go for it.
3\5(Romance)
