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By Joginder Tuteja, July 16, 2008 - 16:36 IST
MOVIE DETAILS
Cast: Sudhanshu Pande, Hrishita Bhatt, Tina Mazumdar, Anuj Punj
Director: Masud Mirza
Producer: VENUS, Iqbal Sidatar, Tarang Agrawal
Music: Saurabh Mukherjee
Lyrics: Ibrahim Ashq
THE FILM
Dhara takes Hrishita Bhatt to the lowest levels of her non-existent acting career. By doing Dhara, she not just ensures that the film takes her galaxies away from her earlier repertoire of films like Asoka, Haasil and Kisna, but also that other filmmakers stop taking her seriously at all.
To be fair to Hrishita though, she must have jumped to the story idea of Dhara which is a cross between Kamal Hassan-Sridevi starrer Sadma and Amitabh Bachchan-Rani Mukherjee starrer Black. She would have found it a rather challenging assignment to play the role of a girl who has been mentally harassed and physically tortured by a 'sauteli maa' who keeps reprimanding her for everything from walking around the house to playing a guitar to basically just living life. While her richie rich father allows everything to happen right under his eyes, poor Dhara grows on physically but her mental state stays on to be that of a 5 year old.
This is where the film's hero Sudhanshu Pande, who plays a doctor, comes into picture. His idea? Treat a mental patient just like any other patient rather than providing electric shocks. Well, now that's a little bit of Salman-Kareena's Kyunki, which itself was based on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Of course, very recently even U Me Aur Hum touched upon how 'real love' could keep a mentally challenged individual relatively sane!
Well, don't really go by the write up above to feel that Dhara may actually have some redeeming moments. No, it doesn't have any. Names like Black, Sadma, Kyunki, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and U Me Aur Hum may look good on paper and thus would have excited the actors as well. However, the fact is that director Masud Mirza gives a crash course to other aspiring filmmakers on how to kill a promising idea and crush it to such an extent that no one ever thinks of picking it up ever again.
Sudhanshu acts Ok, Hrishita is plain bad, especially in the portions where she has to act like a kid, music is bad, editing is bad - just about everything in the film acts as a case study for making bad cinema. In fact, the film appears to be so much short of funds that Hrishita can be seen wearing one particular pink outfit for more than half the film's duration. And what do Tina and Anuj, the other two actors in the film do? Well, while Anuj can hardly make up his mind on whether he is in love or lust with Hrishita, Tina combines both as the first wife of Sudhanshu.
However, I am still wondering what happened to her. Reason? She appears only in flashbacks and there is no insight given on where did she disappear! Was she killed in an accident? Did she commit suicide? Did she take divorce from Sudhanshu? Or did she herself became a mental patient half way through the torture inflicted on her by the makers of the film?
Can someone give me an answer to this please?
PACKAGING
The film comes in a standard local plastic case with an ordinary cover layout. Since the DVD comes on Moser Baer, don't expect any fancy packaging.
DURATION
The film comes in a single DVD pack with the film's duration being approx. 90 minutes.
SPECIAL FEATURES
The DVD doesn't come with any special features.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
- 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
- Subtitles in English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo
PRICE
Rs. 49/=
CONCLUSION
I never knew I had sadist traits till I actually decided to play on Dhara. Not just that, I actually managed to force myself to sit through it to see how intense could the pain coming out of torture could be? The torture of watching a flick which is as shabbily made as any other honorable C grade movie could be. Actually in the annals of C Grade cinema, only Hyderabadi Bakra - Hungama In Dubai comes close, which I had the misfortune of watching earlier this year.
Rating: Not Applicable
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