HELLO ZINDAGI
DIRECTOR: Raja Unnithan
ACTORS: Mrunmayee Lagoo, Kitu Gidwani, Kanwaljeet Singh, Neena Gupta, Milind Gunaji
Hello Zindagi is a terrible film, not worthy of anyone’s time or money. The storytelling is inconsistent and ludicrous, the performances range from ordinary to bad, while any sort of direction is painfully missing. Kavita (Mrunmayee) is a rebellious college girl who stays with a set of caricaturised parents, the strict mummy Neena Gupta, and indulgent papa, Kanwaljeet. While mummy wants her to become serious and get a job, Kavita is busy stealing perfume or passing lewd comments at men, both of which acts are observed by a mysterious lady with a dull marriage (Kitu Gidwani). Frankly, who cares anyway? After a particularly bad fight with her mom, Kavita hooks up with a weird boy at a disco, then snorts fat lines of coke and finally has an accident. While she is in hospital, the traumatised papa dies. Interval.
Now mummy and daughter don’t even talk to each other. So Kitu Gidwani, who it turns out is a doctor, aha, takes Kavita home, and they become mismatched buddies. After a few days of dullness, the duo goes off to Goa to stay in a large bungalow. There Kavita meets Milind Gunaji, whose life dharma is to save Olive Ridley turtles from extinction, even as greedy local villagers oppose him. With nothing better to do, and no help from the story or the director, Kavita too joins him in his work. Then we get lots of trite gyaan about turtles, some more silly drama happens, until Milind Gunaji also dies. Damn. The film ends, with none the wiser as to why it was ever made.
RS RATING: 2/10
Mumbai Mirror
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