Some films just get you interested for all the wrong reasons. Think about it. This is a sex comedy about a bored and boring man who wants to pep up his life with a bit of wife-swapping… hardly the kind of theme and film that would qualify as little more than an effort to titillate audiences with a whole lot of junk feud in the domestic ambience.
Strangely and refreshingly Mixed Doubles, which completes 19 years on February 10, transcends the inherent limitations of its genre. The pincer-sharp dialogues (Anurag Kashyap) and a handful of believable actors who seem to understand the inner world of their urbane characters help to create a sense of lived-in reality in this brief film about giggly grief.
Director Rajat Kapoor, who made the quirky Raghu Romeo, seems to revel in the realm of the goofy. His ‘hero’ is a working-class bore, Sunil(played with acute fidelity...
Strangely and refreshingly Mixed Doubles, which completes 19 years on February 10, transcends the inherent limitations of its genre. The pincer-sharp dialogues (Anurag Kashyap) and a handful of believable actors who seem to understand the inner world of their urbane characters help to create a sense of lived-in reality in this brief film about giggly grief.
Director Rajat Kapoor, who made the quirky Raghu Romeo, seems to revel in the realm of the goofy. His ‘hero’ is a working-class bore, Sunil(played with acute fidelity...
- 2/11/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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