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Movie Review: Cheeni Kum

Year: 2007
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal, Swini Khara
Director: R Balakrishnan
Language: Hindi


Story Line: Buddha (Amitabh Bachchan) runs the restaurant 'Spice 6' in London which he claims is the "only authentic Indian Restaurant in London". His life is lonely, except for a mother and an 9-year old neighbour "Sexy" (Swini Khara). Sexy suffers from Blood Cancer and has only a few days of life left in her. Buddha is arrogant and egoistic man - is "bitter in teste" - hence "Cheeni Kum".
Over a misunderstanding as to how Hyderabadi Zafraani Pulao must be cooked, Buddha meets a 34-year old lady Nina Verma (Tabu). Later, as the turn of events would have it, the two fall for each other. The only problem - their ages !!
Buddha comes over to India to talk to Nina's father Omprakash Verma (Paresh Rawal) who is a Gandhi-wadi and a cricket fan. He gets very upset when he comes to know of Buddha's and Nina's intentions of marrying (specially since Buddha is 6 years elder to him) and launches his "Satyagraha" but later relents.

+es: Hilarious comic scenes, good chemistry between Amitabh & Tabu and Sexy's role are to watch out for. The music gets on to you really quickly - the best of the lot being "Jaane Do Na". A very different movie.
-es: Paresh Rawal enters the movie only after the interval :(

Verdict: 8/10 - a must watch !!

Labels: amitabh, cheeni, hindi, kum, movie, paresh, review, tabu

posted by Abhishek Singh @ 5:48 AM