Yeh Saali Zindagi (Hindi)
Release Date:
February 04, 2011Arun (Irfan Khan) has to save Preeti (Chitrangda Singh), the woman he loves. But for this, firstly, he has to save the man Preeti loves – Shyam, the future son-in-law of a powerful minister. Meanwhile time is running out for Kuldeep, a young gangster who is on his last job. As his wife threatens to walk out on him completely and begins to suspect that she is going into the arms of another man. The job has gone haywire as Kuldeep is still not aware that the minister’s daughter is off and now she doesn’t care whether Shyam lives or dies and more importantly neither does the minister who Kuldeep hoped would pay the ransom! The film rides a roller-coaster towards a shattering climax where everyone has to fend for life and love
Yeh Saali Zindagi is an apt representation of the misdirected new wave in Bollywood. A wave where gloss overshadows meat. A wave where aping the west superficially is fast establishing itself as a habit. A wave where the usage of swear words at “strategic†points is seen as a sureshot way to making the unexposed audience like your film. This is a wave eating itself from within and its saddening to see a veteran like Sudhir Mishra succumbing to it.