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Darling Hindi movie review |
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
Cast: Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Isha Koppikar and others
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Rating: **
 Darling is a lightweight horror-comedy from Ramgopal Varma, in which he revisits his Raat-Bhoot oeuvre, which seems to be his favourite along with the gangster genre.
It must be like a palate cleansing sorbet between heavy films like Aag and Sarkar2 — actually the kind of film that he has now started leaving to one of his ‘Factory’ workers to direct.
With ideas picked from Fatal Attraction (which Varma’s company rehashed as Pyar Tune Kya Kiya) and Blithe Spirit, Darling tells the story of a girl jilted in love and killed accidentally, returning to wreck her lover’s marriage, career and peace of mind.
Aditya (Fardeen Khan), married to the harridan-like housewife Ashwini (Isha Koppikar), has an affair with office colleague Geeta (Esha Deol), and when she gets pregnant, tries to wriggle out of his commitment to her. In the resulting fracas she gets killed — Aditya buries her and gets back to his life. But Geeta won’t let go, she comes back as a ghost to stalk him.
Though Aditya is guilty, Varma generates humour from the scenes of Geeta spooking him, trying to get sympathy for the chap who is an adulterer and killer. Nobody else can see and hear her, but strangely, she can touch people, so Aditya gets slapped for groping a girl, when it is Geeta doing the mischief.
A cop (Uday Limaye) investigating the disappearance of Geeta, is accompanied by a female assistant (Varma has the knack of casting peculiar faces), who has a terrifying stare — probably the only touch of real humour in the film. Far from getting punished Aditya (like the harried protagonist in My Wife’s Murder) gets away and also gets an unusual reward.
Esha has been given such scary make-up, that she doesn’t need to act. Isha Koppikar, playing a housewife, is given a weird wardrobe of Puneri saris and an abrasive manner, so she gets by too. But a podgy Fardeen Khan simply cannot get his act together — instead of looking frightened and disturbed, looks like he is about to slip on a banana peel. |
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