Friday, 31st October 11:15 AM IST

SUPER NANI Is Blast From The Past, Regressive Melodrama

Pluses:

Only Rekha shows glimpses of her stardom and acting capabilities

Minuses:

regressive screenplay, poor caricaturist performances from complete cast, poor direction, tacky editing and camerawork

Critic Rating:

1/5

Business Rating:

1.5/5

Verdict:

Watch it if necessary then only for Rekha

Detailed Analysis:

'Super Nani' is hitting the screens today and it looks like a family melodrama. Indra Kumar gave hits like 'Dhamaal' and 'Masti' before romantic hits like 'Ishq', 'Beta', 'Dil', 'Raja' and 'Mann'. Now he is trying his hand on 'Baaghbaan' types social family drama.

Film has such a tacky plot. There is a NRI Mann Mehra (Sharman Joshi) in US who is praising greatness of mother in over dramatic way through a video. This just sets the tone for the film (and you know what kind of torture you will be facing in coming 133 minutes). Mann comes to India and finds out that his Naani Bharati Mathur (Rekha) is most neglected thing in household. Every one in family, from daughter to son to daughter - in -law to husband simply misbehaves with her (for no reason but just for sadistic pleasure???). Mann is photographer and is in India to shoot Indian heritage and Naani asks her cute neighborhood girl (played by director's daughter Shweta Kumar) to show him Mumbai. One fine day Mann asks her Naani to do make over in order gain her respect back in household. How she becomes top model (seriously!) and corrects everyone in household one by one form the rest of the story.

Performance wise Rekha shines and dominates every frame. She is pale shadow to her usual self but she is the saving grace of this otherwise graceless venture. Watch out for her in medley of old songs,stunning! Randhir Kapoor as Rekha's husband R.K. Mathur is completely uninspiring. Shweta Kumar looks fit for saas bahu serials and Sharman Joshi becomes part of another forgettable flick after 'Waar Chhod Na Yaar' and 'Gang Of Ghosts'. Anupam Kher should be asked why the hell he played this part of ad guru.

Film has all boring songs and editing is so old school that amateur videos online can look ages ahead. Cinematography is tacky and screenplay is straight out from 80's. Dialogues make you laugh unintentionally not once but a dozen times. Naani serving 'parathas' to goons and their change of heart, daughter's live in relationship party sequence (most unintentionally hilarious sequence) and every modern character is bitch or corrupt are few regressive highlights of this drama.

Director Indra Kumar makes extraordinarily bore, pathetic and old school drama. He makes sure that all senior actors look bad and with such a script, he could have not done better. Though to his credit, there are couple of good comic sequences (i.e. ek chutki sindoor ki keemat).

Film released today and should get at least 800-900 screens which will be more than enough for such film as there is not much business potential in content especially in metros. Film will find it tough at box office that too when one biggie is in cinema hall and couple of good Hollywood flicks will be competing with it.

Go for this one if you missed all family drama films in 80's!