Dil Juunglee is about the daughter of an Anglo-Indian business magnate who falls in love with a middle class aspiring actor from Delhi’s Lajpatnagar. Due to parental opposition, they decide to elope but do not have a happily ever after. After a few years, they meet and reconnect. Will they give their failed love story a second shot? What happens next is the crux of this rather predictable love story.
The opening frame of the film states, “Dedicated to the cinema of my growing up years”. Well, throughout the narration, there is no reference to any cinema of any era. So you can just imagine the outcome. Planned as a comic thriller with a staid plot and a bit of romance, the film seems stuck in some kind of time-space warp. Set in Goa with drugs, art forgery, local mafia and politicians thrown in for ample measure, it is the story of an unconventional contract ****er.Mounted with moderate production values, the production designs are appropriate and realistic. The visuals by Amalendu Chaudhary’s lens are clear and sharp but Bakul Matiyani’s editing is a bit slack. Transitions in certain scenes are clumsily handled. Shaan, Roshan Balu and Gourov Dasgupta’s background score and music are run of the mill. The song with the lyrics, “Heer, Heera” in Punjabi is an aberration in the narrative.
Overall, “Baa Baaa Black Sheep” fails to engage you.
Rating: *1/2
After a gap of three years, Rani Mukerji is back on the big screen with Siddharth P Malhotra’s Hichki. The film is based on Brad Cohen’s book, Front of the Class : how Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had. Films based on student-teacher relationships are hardly made in Bollywood. The last notable film was, of course, Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par. In Hichki, Rani Mukerji aka Naina Mathur is a young woman who aspires to become a teacher as it was a professor who helped her build her confidence as a child suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome. The film also throws light on the drawbacks of the conventional educational system and how learning is not limited to the classrooms.
