Everybody Says I'm Fine!

I saw this film, the director's first attempt, when it debuted at the Philly Film Festival in 2002. I found it to be VERY disappointing. Without giving too much away, the director takes a clichéd Bollywoodian approach to very strong themes of sexual abuse, revenge and violence.

In the Q& A period following the film, the director admitted that some of the events were based on his true experiences, he explained as well that he had wanted to avenge a close friend through the story he portrayed. It is quite clear that he was much too emotionally close to resolving his own demons when he made this film. As a result, the film is extremely naive. Being passionate about cinema and world cinema in particular, I walked away incredibly frustrated.

A fantastically dramatic directorial debut by Rahul Bose.What can I say? I loved the movie an its characters! quite extreme? of course, and quite rightly so .Bose's depiction of the wonderfully complicated lives of today's Mumbaiites who are brought together in the central theme of the movie.With a touch of Marquez's magical realism, the movie revolves around the need for self preservation through a pretence of normality.The characters want their chaotic lives buried away from the public eye as they continue to pretend that everything IS fine. Perversely enough, curiosity always gets the better of the public eye as they poke and prod and dig beneath the ground for treasures of guarded secrets. But do we really want to know the truth? For this flick the Indian audience need to fasten their seat-belts, for truth is bizarre, complex and utterly saddening. All in all a brave attempt and thoroughly enjoyable! An appeal to the Indian audience:

An excellent film...funny, charming, wry, yet also gritty and compelling. Nikita (Koel Purie) has a cathartic scene reminiscent of Liv Ullman in Bergman's "Face to Face." She submerges herself in a fugue state unflinchingly. The climactic turn of events lift the film to a more profound conclusion than the first half augured.

Well Should appreciate the producer for financing in 90's when bollywood was coming out of trash , this movies may be because rahul seems desperately trying to prove he is better then others makers of that time which went against the movie which could have been better and remembered as ahead of its time type of movie. Kudos to pooja bhatt for accepting this role when was already doing too good in mainstream cinema and in the entire movie her character was strong and did good job. In many scenes it feels like we are watching stage play rahul and puri character looks loud. Never saw rehaan before but he is good looking did his job well surprisingly never saw him after this movie.

A really interesting way to present what could have been an incredibly cheesy plot. It had its non-sequitor moments, but it was otherwise very well done.

Recommended if you're looking for something other than the traditional Hollywood Summer blockbuster.