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Starring:
Ranvir Shorey, Neha Dhupia, Naseeruddin Shah, Vinay
Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Iravati Harshe, Suhasini Mulay
Director: Rajat Kapoor
Mithya means a lie. Lies and everything else apart, it's
an absolute entertainer. Rajat Kapoor has tried a
never-before- tried treatment in this film and outcome
is as unexpected as its meaning. He manages to weave
together both the elements of comedy and a crime
thriller and come up with a movie which surprises us by
its sheer boldness. Mithya is filled with all the
ingredients of a Bollywood hit movie - comedy, drama,
action, romance, love, and finally, a good story of a
guy who finds himself at the wrong place in the wrong
time and how that changes his life.
VK (Ranveer Shorey) is a struggling actor, like
thousands of film aspirants who reach Bollywood, comes
to Mumbai with endless big film dreams. But fate has
something in store for him, for it makes him a pawn in a
master game plan of the underworld, and then he
unknowingly gets drawn into a whirlpool of events that
will determine his future.
Then follows the sequence of
events unveiling which are least anticipated and
pleasantly surprising. Now VK is successfully replaced as
Raje Bhaiya's position in the gang. Everything now seems
to go right, and then suddenly VK meets with an accident
and loses memory. Post accident, he actually starts
believing that he's Raje and forgets his real
individuality of VK. Now he is actually strangled between
both the underworld gangs.
In the second half, Mithya
deviates from a conspiracy plot to an emotional identity
crisis with VK's paternal instincts and romantic persona
coming forth. The chemistry between Ranvir Shorey and
leading ladies Neha Dhupia and Iravati Harshe are handled
well. Then an unexpected accident turns the tables for
everybody involved.
CAST :
VK / Raje Bhaiya - Ranvir Shorey
Sonam - Neha Dhupia
Gawde - Naseeruddin Shah
Ram - Vinay Pathak
Shetty - Saurabh Shukla
Revati - Iravati Harshe
Mother - Suhasini Mulay
Shyam - Brijendra Kala
Mannu - Harsh Chhaya
Abbas - Ikhlaq Khan
Kuku Tola - Tinnu Anand
Sonam's Aunt - Kamini Khanna
Tilak - Perin Malde
Keshav - Loknath Rathi
Chaudhary - Anil Chaudhary
Tipnis - Pankaj Tripathy
Jojo - Sanjeev Sharma
Majid Bhai - Anupam Shyam
Production Manager - Rajeev Saxena
Builder - Jehangir Karkaria
Sho - Ajay Trehan
Police Commissioner - Ramesh Rai
Chandan - Chandan Bisht
Madman - Vijay Gupta
Rachna Bisht, Sanam Kumar, Mustan Tambavala, Rohit
Pathak, Dhruv Singh,
Pankaj Purandare, Suraj Mukherjee, Mahender Gule, Pankaj
Sudhir Mishra, Suraj Mukherjee, Nikhil Rao, Promod Ghosh
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One night VK witnesses a murder and reports it to the
cops. He then finds himself a hunted man by the
underworld. There is a conspiracy by a rival gang who
wants to replace underworld kingpin Raje Bhaiya with VK,
and gain access to his mafia empire. Why? Simply because
VK is a look alike of the underworld don.
They keep him prisoner for a while, where he finds comfort
in the hands of the ganngster's moll (Neha Dhupia). But
before he can get too comfortable, he is told that the
reason he has been kidnapped is because Naseer wants to
plant him in the rival gang and work for him. VK has
little option but to agree. The plot takes many quirky
twists and turns from here onwards as VK is drawn into a
vortex of crime and deceit.
Director Rajat Kapoor is a brilliant a storyteller and has
the advantage of having Naseeruddin Shah, Vinay Pathak,
Ranvir Shorey, some of best actors of contemporary Hindi
cinema. Camerawork is also excellent, which gives the film
a cold, gloomy look. Ranvir Shorey has attempted and is
successful in giving an extra-ordinary performance as the
ordinary struggler as also as the imposter. Naseeruddin
Shah plays the role of ageing Don with an age-old ease and
expertise. Surprise package is Neha Dhupia who definitely
is one of the most under-rated actors in bollywood as she
slips into a role with such effortless ease. Iravati is
fantastic. Saurabh Shukla is first-rate. Vinay Pathak has
a small but significant role. Other actors Brijendra Kala
and Harsh Chhaya all are suitably cast in their roles.
The only predictable aspect
about Mithya is its unpredictability. It has a lot of
twists and it will be unfair to give away those here.
Well, there is no star-value or item numbers but that
essentially gives the movie a whiff of freshness. A film
which has a fabulous script with believable characters,
engrossing storyline and brilliant performances.
- Shaami M. Irfan
CREDITS
Produced by
- Arindam Chowdhuri
Directed by - Rajat Kapoor
Writers - Rajat Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla
Costume Design -: Isha
Ahluwalia, Darshan Jalan
Visual Effects
Digital Compositors - Sudeepto Bose, Sarang Deshpande,
Ilamuruguselvan, Ranen Nongmaithem, Pavan, Gaurvendra
Singh
Assistant Editor - Archit D Rastogi
Digital Intermediate Sequence Colorist - Paul Byrne
Theme Music - Sagar Desai
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