What follows is his new struggles of saying a nice peaceful goodbye to all his friends and loved ones. In the course of this journey (his new 10 things to do) he realises the truth about the fickle & changing nature of relationships, childhood friendships, teenage romance, love, luck and death.
Its a movie that should surely appeal to Indians who have seen the struggle, aspirations and hope of the Indian middle class. The movie makes you think about life and reminds you of death being an integral part of it. Characters are very real, life like and quite endearing. There are a few over the top exaggerations in the cameos played by Saurabh Shukla, Ranvir Shorey and Purvi Joshi. These 3 portrayals help the lead player Amar understand that life can be fun too.
Vinay Pathak (Amar), Sarita Joshi (Mother) and Gaurav Gera (Vivek) are brilliant. Surprisingly Neha Dhupia gives a very restrained and beautiful performance as Amar's love interest from his teenage life. And Rajat Kapur as a long lost friend completes a very able ensemble cast.
Certain scenes like the one where Amar plays dumb-charade with his sweetheart and the one where a Russian prostitute saves Amar from committing suicide are touching.
This is kind of old time cinema of Basu Bhattacharya and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Whereas Vinay Pathak played a perfect buffoon in Bheja Fry in an out and out Comedy; this time he has out-done himeslf as a very loveable city-simpleton who has considered himself to be a loser all his life despite so many endearing qualities.
A most watchable film - one of the best ones to come out from Bollywood in recent times !!
Rating : *****
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