In the first half, it’s not so bad, but her brother character especially in the second half just goes off into crazyland. Rani’s family is at first amusingly eccentric.
It’s sublime.īut unfortunately, Prithviraj, Subodh and Rani aren’t the only people in the film. Finally she discovers the source of his intoxicating scent, and they connect. On the day of her engagement, she escapes the house and follows Surya. I wouldn’t have minded if Surya had just been a fantasy and she ended up with the nice average Maadhav ( Subodh Bhave). While shopping for wedding saris, she has the lustful Aga Bai fantasy song from the top of the review. He’s kind and sweet, but he just doesn’t float her boat like Surya – who seemingly doesn’t even know she exists. One very nice average guy she reluctantly agrees to see again. Rani’s eccentric family have placed a matrimonial ad and she grits her teeth through meetings with several suitors.
Having seen several South Indian films, I felt like I was in on the joke. Prithviraj’s having his own fun spoofing regional song sequences. They rhyme humping and thumping, and he bobs his head following her waist gyrations. He just has this crazy grin through the whole song. What I absolutely love about this song sequence is that I’ve never before seen Prithviraj so silly, and you can just see him going for it with gusto. Rani dreams she’s in a Southern Masala film, and we get this insane number that made me just laugh in delight:Īs Prithviraj said in an interview - it’s Bollywood’s crazy view of Southern films. “How do I say I like dark skin people, not fair skin?” The chaiwallah recommends she watch the Tamil Midnight Masala TV channel. She knows he speaks Tamil to the chaiwallah boy, who she bribes to teach her to speak Tamil. She finds him sleeping in doorways and hallways. He barely ever speaks to Rani, and is very mysterious and standoffish.
He always has red eyes so the rumor is that he’s on drugs or spends all his nights drinking. (The director Sachin Kundalkar, had done a previous Marathi film about the senses.) She asks around to learn more about her crush Surya. She is struck speechless by the appearance of art student Surya, and is entranced by his smell.
Her parents want to arrange her marriage, but first she gets a job at the local art college. She imagines herself at the beginning as Madhuri, Juhi and Sridevi. Rani is Menaskshi, a young woman who loves zany Bollywood films, the more over the top the better. (He made Aurangzeb around the same time.) The film was produced by Anurag Kashyap and was directed by Sachin Kundalkar. But I hadn’t seen him like this:Īiyyaa means Oh, My! Aiyyaa was a comeback film for Rani, but was Prithviraj’s Bollywood Debut. I have only seen a few Prithviraj films, and my impression was of a very good serious actor in Ennu Ninte Moideen, Classmates and Mumbai Police or even Aurangzeb.
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