Released in 2008.
This movie was only so so. It was certainly not your stereotypical Bollywood movie though. Starring Kiron Kher, the movie was about a divorced mother and her twenty-something daughter who move from Delhi to Bombay to start over. The story is about the lives of the people in their new apartment complex. The Sensex (the Mumbai stock exchange), and through it Indian economic prosperity, remains a firm presence in the entire movie. It breaks appreciably from standard Urdu-ized Bollywood dialogues and represents language more realistically. The ethnic differences in speaking Hindi are not suppressed (the mother and daughter are quite firmly identified as Bengali). English is also much more prominent in the movie. I really appreciated the movie's effort to reinvent the image of the Indian middle class in Bollywood, but its undoing was a very uninteresting story-line and unusually dull characters.
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