cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, Arjun Mathur
Directed by Raja Menon
release date: March 2009
Naseeruddin Shah has a lot to smile about. The current wave of off-beat cinema is providing this talent with much better roles and money or not, he thankfully need not resort to playing silly villains in mindless commercial capers. And last year he was brilliant with his comman man potrayal in A WEDNESDAY. Now with BARAH AANA he looks to repeat the act.
BARAH AANA is a comedy from director Raja Menon and pits the talents of Vijay Raaz with Nasseeruddin Shah. And rounding up the trio is the fresh new talent on the horizon Arjun Mathur, who was last seen in a noteworthy performance in LUCK BY CHANCE.
Set in today’s Mumbai, Barah Aana revolves around three unlikely friends: Shukla, a driver, Yadav, a watchman, and Aman, a waiter. Shukla is an older man, stoic and steady. Yadav, in his 30s, is meek and something of a pushover at work, but exhibits an underlying mischievous nature. Aman, on the other hand, is young, dynamic, and ambitious. In typical Mumbai fashion, the three are roommates, and the clash of their personalities regularly results in humorous, tongue-in-cheek banter.
Things take a turn when the watchman becomes prey to misfortune; a series of chance events results in him stumbling on to a crime. The discovery changes his perspective, boosting his self-confidence enough to make him think that he had a found a new, low-risk way to make money. He then tries to sell the idea to his roommates, to get them to join him in executing a series of such crimes.
As they get more and more mired in the spiral of events that follow, the three characters go through several changes as they are pushed more and more against the wall. Their adventures eventually take them down a path they never imagined.
Things take a turn when the watchman becomes prey to misfortune; a series of chance events results in him stumbling on to a crime. The discovery changes his perspective, boosting his self-confidence enough to make him think that he had a found a new, low-risk way to make money. He then tries to sell the idea to his roommates, to get them to join him in executing a series of such crimes.
As they get more and more mired in the spiral of events that follow, the three characters go through several changes as they are pushed more and more against the wall. Their adventures eventually take them down a path they never imagined.
The film essentially is a close analysis of the urban Indian society where the difference of the haves and the have nots keep widening. With money being the driving force of the nation, the society keeps eroding in the wake of globalization and the director Raja Menon brings this factor to the fore.
And Raja Menon, having already shown the film to a few people, has already won the applause from various sections and the admiration list includes the likes of Aamir Khan. It has also been getting rave reviews from the various Film Festival Screenings. So all in all, here is a movie that looks extremely promising!
The film is slated for a March release.
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