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Only the idea clicks

Dus Kahaniyaan (Hindi)

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty

Director: Sanjay Gupta and Meghna Gulzar among others

Half-a-dozen directors, ten screenplay writers and more than a handful of dialogue writers. And a film, directed by Sanjay Gupta, Rohit Roy, Meghna Gulzar and Hansal Mehta, among others, that talks of ten stories without one linking element. Some of the stories hold interest. Like the one involving old pros Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah: she is a Tamil Brahmin woman who cannot brook the touch of a Muslim; he is a cap-wearing Muslim whose offer of a polite helping hand is rejected. There is a little message: at the end we are all human beings. Separately these episodes hold interest. But what follows in between is real tedium: difficult to understand what the likes of Anooradha Patel, Neha Dhupia, Arbaaz Khan, Dino Morea and even Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty are doing. Sleep walking, or merely bringing up the numbers?

As an idea, “Dus Kahaniyaan” clicks. But it is an idea whose time has not come yet. Sorry, “Dus Kahaniyaan” fails to pass muster.

ZIYA US SALAM

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