Dunno Y...Na Jaane Kyun Review

What is it all about?

Darling.. so its time for `Angels In Bollywood'  to do a `Brokeback Mountain'... does 'Dunno Y Na Jane Kyun'  `Milk' its way to a life time Bollywood glory of a serious gay love story.. Well our helmer brother Sanjay feels it but ends up by saying .. baby what so hurry.. And that's the biggest worry of this film which is sensitive in parts but overall fails to ring the revival bells in Bollywood  where homosexuality still remains either a `Dostana' or a brother called Nikhil.

It does drags those queens by showing those gay parties but doesn't bother to get engage anyone in its sweeping arguments on the ethics, morals, or any revival in order to convince the audience to accept a gay love story on universal human terms.

The Story. Of Course

The film traces the relationship between two young men a male hooker played by Kapil Sharma and a manager in an MNC played by Yuvraaj Parashar, who do fall in love but are unable to express it freely either due to family pressure or the social stigma attached to a gay relationship which forces them to remain in the closet and hope for a new, more liberal world order.

What to look out for?

It must be said that this movie does crosses the boundaries when it tries to show the intimacy between the lovers, the return of the diva called Zeenat Aman and of course it's a pleasure to watch Helen who even in this age is filled with energy. Director Sanjay Sharma does well in parts in handling the sensitive sequences between the gay lovers. He makes an attempt to show homosexuals as normal human beings who share the same emotions.

Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar come up with an earnest effort. Rituparna shines, Kabir Bedi is fine, Aryan Vaid does well. Tara Sharma, Asha Sachdev, and Hazel chip in with valuable support.

What not?

Accepting gay lovers is not the same as taking them into your heart, and this production fails to score on that. Sanjay shifts focus on concentrating more on the `homely' issues; the saas bahu thingies between Helen and Zeenat, the Kabir Bedi episode and in the process, the movie leaves its own home. And in the climax, the movie surrenders to the world and accepts defeat reducing it to just an honest attempt rather than a song of revival which could have been sung as the vocals where available.

Conclusion: `Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun' is a `left' turn in Bollywood from the normal right ones in its heightened degree of sensitivity and performances portraying the gay love story but fails to achieve much glory as surrenders to the norms and accepts self defeat.

Rating **&1/2