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Ek Hasina Thi
(Hindi)
Cast: Saif Ali Khan,
Urmila Matondkar
Dir: Sriram Raghavan
Mus: Amar Mohile
EK HASINA Thi Urmila Matondkar. She conveyed a lot through her swaying and swerving figure in Ramgopal Varma's Rangeela. Years later she is still beautiful - the face is unlined, the eyes appealing, the figure quite attractive. Her ways are beautiful too.
And in Sriram Raghavan's Ek Hasina Thi she has a durable passport with her fans who might have been a shade annoyed for her less-than-cultured performance in Tehzeeb. She is winsome and vivacious here to Saif Ali Khan's beguiling charmer.
With these two amiable protagonists, Raghavan mounts a film that is plausible all through, pleasant in parts, and a pleasure often.
It starts off as a series of interchanging praises between Saif's smart-talking, upwardly mobile talker, and Urmila's alluring acquiescing girl.
Before she realises the travel professional had undertaken a journey with the man where a delight is promised at every turn, though a little bumpy, may just be round the corner too.
However, the mutual admiration club soon gives way to a mean streak, the lady is cornered, the man is not exactly a hero.
How she realises his worth, and how she comes to terms with vendetta on her agenda makes this a fairly engrossing journey where the cinematographer is an able ally, and background score often comes to the fore to add to the impact. Yes, do watch Ek Hasina Thi.
It has none of the gruesome things often associated with thrillers. It does not have the expletives often found in films with an anti-hero at the centre. It has none of the disquieting, disturbing song and dance sequences. What it has is a fresh, rejuvenated Urmila in a controlled performance. And Saif Ali Khan doing a safe job of an unsafe role.
ZIYA US SALAM
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