Miss Lovely, Hindi Bollywood film Movie review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * * *
Hindi Film review Johnson Thomas Film: Miss Lovely Miss Lovely Movie review: A rather dismal dark take on Bollywood’s underbelly Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George, Zeena Bhatia, Sonal Director: Ashim Ahluwalia Rating: * * * A less than illuminating(too many dark and un-satisfyingly lit sequences) saga about the dark and inhuman depravity rampant in the back-end side of glitzy Bollywood. This is documentary filmmaker Ashim (‘John and Jane’)Ahluwalia’s maiden attempt at feature cinema and he just about makes the transition count. It’s differently color coded. There’s a dark heaviness that hangs around every sequence and even the supposedly well-lit ones do not make for a suitable contrast. It’s a technique adopted keeping in mind the dreary, sordid world that the film seeks to draw you into. Set in the late 1980’s , where the back-enders of mainstream, glitzy, Bollywood sought to augment their living...