![]() ![]() ![]() Such wildly melodramatic plot flourishes are commonplace in these characters’ lives – food-flinging confrontations, last-minute fashion show histrionics, long soulful stares off a blustery cliffside, not to mention the quivery-lipped, wet-eyed expressions of love and grief that all the characters indulge in at a moments notice. Together, they share duties regarding their three children – teenager Aleya (Aachal Munjal), middle child and only son, Ankush (Nominath Ginsberg) and adorable tot Anjali (natural scene-stealer Diya Sonecha).Īman feels the moment has arrived to introduce his children to new girlfriend Shreya (Kareena Kapoor, in the role Roberts grinned her way through), though his timing is off – his youngest child’s birthday party may not be the most appropriate place. ![]() In the Sarandon role is much-loved Indian actress Kajol, whose 'Maya’ is a strong single-mother left to raise her three children after an amicable divorce from Aman (Arjun Ramal, ramping up the matinee idol charisma to stratospheric levels). Unlike recent Bollywood releases via the Mind Blowing Films distribution outfit, which have sought to appeal to western movie-going tastes, We Are Family is aimed fairly and squarely at the domestic Indian market (which has reacted with indifference, given the film’s mid-range 142million Rupee opening over the past few days in the country’s large urban centres). ![]() Western audiences will roll their eyes until their brains hurt at the lengths to which the film goes to maximise weepage. One would have thought it damn near impossible to wring anymore gross sentimentality from Chris Columbus’ Stepmom, which featured Susan Sarandon as the cancer-riddled wife and Julia Roberts as the 'other woman’ who must step up to care for Sarandon’s brood after her passing.īut first-time director Sidharth Malhotra ladles on the saccharine exponentially with every frame of his Hindi-language adaptation of the 1998 Hollywood mega-tearjerker. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |