7 Sins forgiven: Berlin-review

Kill Bill meets kind hearts and Coronets for beautiful two and a half hours of luridly melodramatic Indian escapism.

Vishal bhardwaj

Vishal bhardwaj, Matthew Robbins

Neil Nitin Mukesh/John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Vivaan Shah, Irrfan Khan, Alexander Dyachenko, annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah

BERLIN - stark extended out on a four page story septuagenarian Anglo Indian author Ruskin bond, 7 sins forgiven, together by Hollywood veteran Matthew Robbins - a time a close staff of Lucas and Spielberg - is a cocktail of passion, sex and violent death, spiced with local color and laced with wicked humor.

Audience is looking for innovative cinema should this wild Indian revenge romp give a wide berth, but there are many others who occupied this top-class sixth function of Vishal Bhardwaj (Kaminey-responsible for 2009's well preserved-the villains) will enjoy. The film could surprisingly click at the domestic box office during the pre Berlin International Film Festival January release. It should be better on DVD and on TV and deserves attention from film festivals interested compensate for meagre fare with unapologetically old-fashioned crowd pleasers.

Shot in the widescreen format if from Mumbai, and with a handful of elaborate, played musical numbers with lush music by bhardwaj itself, is this not stereotypes Bollywood extravaganza. Instead, it's a romantic affair in classical Western cinema traditions as a series of illustrated flashbacks, of pathologist Arun Kumar (Vivaan Shah) tells how he the turbulent life of his recently deceased mentor and (unrequited) semi-Oedipal built love, Susanna Johannes (ponders Priyanka Chopra).

The good situierten Susanna the bright orphaned Arun out of poverty saved, when he was a child. It supports his education abroad, in which time you made your way through a series of husbands.

"I was determined to, with all the wrong men to be!" wails you, as we have episodes set while the last four decades of Indian history, Susanna's partners with various stages of progress of the country by Raj see link inconspicuously today awakening superpower.

The unfortunate husbands are played by familiar faces from Bollywood and beyond, including of Indian cinema-in-Office Beefcake John Abraham (as a hedonistic rock star), Slumdog millionaire's Irrfan Khan (as a Muslim poet, which shows a sadistic strips in the bedroom) and veteran Naseeruddin Shah (as a "Miracle doctor" the magic mushroom), Father of the promising Vivaan, his debut here.

Far from scheming "Black widow" is beautifully Susanna (of Arun) as a semi-hapless victim, their suitors that (Harish Khanna, Shashi Malviya and Usha Uthup, steal from the sidelines) sent by her loyal, always smiling but lethally resourceful servants painted. 7 Sins forgiven background - with a short conversion to the Islamic is therefore based to a number of weddings and funerals, Susanna of the mixed Christian/Hindu-so bhardwaj and his staff, versatile religious references (including whimsical, repeatedly used the hymn "Nearer My God")(", Thee") to throw in the disarmingly breezy style.

They have a twisty operatically climax, which features of a not so surprising revelation about Susanna setting, and a really pine Dopping on the identity of your last man-should the and dance partner-that includes procedures and on a note of amusing outrageous audacity.

A former Miss world turned Bollywood superstar, Chopra (reteaming with bhardwaj after Kaminey) makes the most of a prime showcase role as the seductive Susanna, aging of post teenager to a 50-plus with the help of make-up artist Greg Cannom, has the similar tasks on David Fincher's the curious tale of Benjamin button. Fincher had his own sin catalog with Se7en course previously essayed. While bhardwaj's tale not entitled to this type of Ernst has, yet is his sly film as smarter and more transgressive than first appearances would suggest.
Location: Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama)
Vishal bhardwaj images; ACCIDENT motion pictures
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Vivaan Shah, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Irrfan Khan, Alexander Dyachenko, annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah
Director/music: Vishal bhardwaj
Director: Vishal bhardwaj, Matthew Robbins
Based on a story by: Ruskin bond
Developer: Vishal bhardwaj, Ronnie Screwvala
Executive Producer: Ajay Rai
Director of photography: Ranjan Palit
Production designer: Samir Chanda
Costume designer: Payal Saluja
Publisher: Sreekar Prasad
Sell: UTV motion pictures, Mumbai
No review, 148 minutes

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