Mirch Movie Reviews

Possession is the flipside of love. All lovers are possessive. Unfortunately. Women merely express their insecurities more freely. The man, over generations, has hidden his persecution complex under the garb of physical strength. He’s emotionally much weaker, his ego, far more delicate. An unfaithful lover can destroy him. Completely. Well they do, in this case. There are four hitched men (Rajpal Yadav, Prem Chopra, Shreyas Talpade, Boman Irani).

Now when was the last time you saw a Bollywood film dissecting female sexuality without being apologetic about it? Can't remember, can you? Bollywood has mostly turned its back to the sensual woman as a protagonist. Typically, there have been just two ways mainstream cinema has viewed female eroticism. By and large, the Indian film heroine is represented as a romantic, albeit asexual creature, who is terribly low on oestrogen.

Though billed as an adult film, Mirch ends up being more playful and witty rather than erotic in it’s telling, with a narrative style that follows a disarming simplicity. Minimally shot and deftly written, the film has a distinct music score and explores the theme of sexuality, without ever getting vulgar, through a host of talented actors who play bit parts in four different stories. Vinay Shukla, who earlier directed the powerful Godmother

Director Vinay Shukla weaves a bold, unconventional and unusual tale, unusual only because Indian society still considers any discussion of the sexual needs of women taboo. Shukla unabashedly treads into dangerous territory, blatantly commenting on the gender bias and the need for equality without being preachy. Shukla’s protagonist is writer and struggling filmmaker Manav (Arunoday Singh), who is at his wit's end as no producer is ready to help him

Infidelity is an age-old phenomenon. So are lust, deceit and betrayal. These emotions have prevailed through the ages. Then why on earth is the director, Vinay Shukla, seeking justifications for the same? It really is a problem when the directors aren't happy if you just see their film, but they are also intent on cramming some so-called message down your throat. As a result, one leaves the auditorium with a sense of resentment rather than a smile

Much against the title connotation, Mirch is not your regular Bollywood masala. This is a four-course meal delicately cooked with classic spices for an aphrodisiac effect. The only setback is that some of the spices used are so ancient that their pungent flavour has vanished and the intended tangy taste isn't tangible. Maanav (Arunoday Singh) is an idealistic struggling screenwriter who doesn't want to compromise on his story. His girlfriend

Mirch is a sexy idea that doesn’t quite come to fruition. Inspired from sources as varied as the Panchatantra and Boccaccio’s Decameron, writer-director Vinay Shukla strings together four stories focusing on the complicated, fraught, deeply painful and yet life-sustaining games that men and women play with each other. Sex, lies, disguises, deviousness and tears are the weapons at hand and women, in one story literally, are on top. Binding these stories

The promotions of MIRCH had suddenly caught one's eye thanks to its attention-grabbing promos, which are full of love-making scenes. You are forewarned at the outset that this film talks of four adulterous people. But the question is, haven't we watched men cheating women in soooo many movies in the past? Haven't women caught their men with their pants down, in the past? So what's new in MIRCH? For a change, the women in MIRCH are into adultery.

Although we have seen a lot of films telling several short stories that come together in the end Life In A... Metro, and Love, Sex And Dhoka this one is different. It's a film within a film. It's a tongue-in-cheek look at the film industry and the struggle faced by B-Town writers. A struggling writer Maanav (Singh) is trying to sell his script to a producer (Ray). He narrates four stories, inspired from various classics ranging from Amar Chitra Katha

Why sex is so hard to do, pun completely intended, is evident in spades in ‘Mirch’, a film that uses that most primal of acts in the most leaden of ways. Four stories interconnected only with the fact that the leads end up carnally entangled take nearly two hours to prove that we are still very far from smart, funny show-and-tell tales. No real ess-ee-ex please, we are Indian. Egged on by his girl-friend ( Goswami) a struggling scriptwriter

Mirch is too bland to have the audience salivating, in spite of the sexual undertones.