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Aisa kyon hota hai (Hindi)

Cast: Aryan Vaid, Megha Chatterjee

Director: Ajay Kanchan

Oh God! Not the Church too. The Catholic Church enters Bollywood with the intention of bringing about social awareness through the popular medium but dishes out nothing more than homilies. HIV-AIDS, irresponsible husbands, ragging, secularism... you name the problem and the director shows it on screen. It makes the 1980s Doordarshan seem like a class act.

Right at the beginning of the film we have Aryan Vaid declaring, "I don't want to be preachy", but that is exactly what he does, with ample help from Ajay Kanchan, the director. Vaid, with no claims to teenage for a decade, plays a college-going guy whose lineage is questioned. We think we are back to some moral science class until the next item number jolts us out of the reverie. Sex, songs, skirts, rain, dance, there is everything in the name of "entertainment". All that is missing is a film that is engrossing, a technique that is passable, or acting that would pass muster.

All noble intent washed away by poor technique. All subtleties cast aside for one endless sermon. Really, aisa kyon hota hai?

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