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This `embrace' may not prove lucky

Kasak (Hindi)

Cast: Lucky Ali, Meera

Director: Rajiv Babbar

Rajiv Babbar comes out of Ooty, leaves Mithun Chakravarty behind and embraces Lucky Ali. Gone are "Jallad" and "Chandal". It is time for "Kasak".

But, ah! The more things change, the more they stay the same. The same melodrama, the same outrageous plot, the same mediocrity creeping into every frame. Here he comes up with a psychological thriller.

He has a male nurse, Lucky Ali, whose face is forever home to distress and depression. He has a female nurse, Meera. Clad in all pink, the way she walks in the hospital, not too many patients would be inclined to call her Sister Anjali she is supposed to portray here.

He loves her, she loves him. No, she loves his riches more - you see, the guy had got a crore as a gift from one of the patients!

She can stoop to slander, she is happy with separation but he still pines for her! Why? We cannot see, given the ugly caricature Meera sketches of her in-love-with-bucks role. She sleeps with men for money, dumps them on her whims, vents her passion on a bed of flat tyres! Appropriate for the film perhaps, but simply disgusting.

Incidentally, Meera has gone on record saying her competition in Bollywood is from the Aishwaryas, the Ranis. Ah! Forget Aish and company, bring on Sneha, Mink and all those names familiar with Rajiv Babbar-TLV Prasad ventures.

As for the moping hero, well after every rejection, he heads to the crematorium for relief! Might as well take the film along. Yes, Babbar's "Kasak" has no life, no throb, no pulse.

Present like the past? Umm. The torture continues.

Still want to watch "Kasak"? Here is a tip: ask somebody to finance the venture.

Take the cash, keep it in your pocket. You would be richer that way.

ZIYA US SALAM

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