Cheeni Kum

Cheeni Kum played in Bangalore for several weeks and I made plans with a friend several times...but somehow they never materialised...

Finally last night Sony TV played it and I made sure I didn’t miss it...

Its about romance between a 64-year-old man and a 34 year-old woman... handled very maturely ...no overt display of emotion...the performances are brilliant...whether its AB or Tabu or the little girl Sexy...

The first half is toooooo good...the humour, sarcasm and witticism is awesome...the comedy is not the usual slap stick comedy associated with Bollywood but far more subtle...and the chemistry between AB and Tabu is terrific...

Buddha (AB) is arrogant and self-assured, yet feels the need to impress her - while never admitting it. Their banter and Tabu's retorts to AB's arrogance has one constantly impressed...

There is a fantastic scene where she berates AB for being too forward, for daring, like all men would, to ask a girl out and assume she's available, just because she's smiled at him a few times. The tension is palpable as AB falls silent. And then 'I do hope you won't be late,' she ends, still deadpan, immediately confirming both date and smirk.

Another scenes that I really enjoyed is when they have been meeting up for a few days and Tabu asks AB to ask her THE question all guys are supposed to ask...he's like hesitant so he asks her to ask the question...the build up of suspense as she says ...should I? And the smile…as she asks 'what’s your name?’

The way 9 yr old Sexy...friends with 64 year old AB questions him and gives him gyan is really interesting... her dialogues are really good.

Zohra Sehgal plays AB's movie... she's brilliant as always ...though one thing I have noticed...she seems to be type cast in all her movies...the old granny ...but very unlike the preaching types...still very young at heart... watches WWF or some serial one would never imagine someone her age would watch...like 'sex in the city' in this movie...

The 2nd half dragged a bit...where Paresh Rawal plays the 58 year old father who is dead against the match...thou Paresh had his funny moments too...

Bottom line...head to the lending library if you haven’t see this brilliant movie...since it definitely is not to be missed...