Tum Milo Toh Sahi Movie Reviews

Where have you been, Nana? And why don't we see more of you, Dimple? These are the two questions that primarily stare you in the face as you sit through Tum Milo Toh Sahi, a sweet little ode to the spirit of the quintessential Mumbaikar who manages to connect, communicate and build lasting bonds in the milling crowds. The two veteran actors create such a warm picture of humaneness, warmth and togetherness, it leaves you asking for more.

Love knows no language. Love knows no barriers. Love knows no age. It's this thought that director Kabir Sadanand tries to encapsulate in his second directorial venture TUM MILO TOH SAHI. TUM MILO TOH SAHI may not be the most amazing take on relationships, but it has several moments that make you experience myriad emotions in those two hours. Especially the portions involving Nana Patekar and Dimple Kapadia

Even as the last decade has seen our cities populated with coffee and burger chains how many of us have stopped to consider what activity flourished here earlier? And was there anything just a wee bit illicit in the way the property was acquired? Delshad (Dimple Kapadia) runs a small restaurant Lucky Cafe which is patronized by people of all ages, all castes and all sections of society. She's old school and is nice to people

An Irani coffee house serves as the backdrop for a series of intermingling stories that cross paths and disconnect more often than connect. Delshad (Dimple) is the owner of Lucky Coffee house that acts a second home to college kids. However, those sweet moments don't last long. Amit (Shetty) works for a company that wants to buy the cute little joint. Already suffering from a failed marriage with wife (Vidya) he has his own personal issues to deal with.

Wake up and smell some coffee. What could have been a refreshing coffee break ends up being an exercise of watching your daily soap in a coffee shop. As much as the coffee rejuvenates you, the sloppy soap opera induces forty winks. The coffeemakers here are Subramanium (Nana Patekar) and Delshad (Dimple Kapadia). He is retired and prefers homemade coffee. She runs a café and brews cappuccino for college students.

Tum Milo Toh Sahi is about love and longing in Mumbai. Three couples from different generations struggle with the unrelenting demands of career, money, ambition, stress. A sprawling café called Lucky plays a central role in their romance and heart-ache. The idea isn’t half bad but the execution is so amateurish that you barely care whether Lucky Café and its various lovers sink or swim. Writer-director Kabir Sadanand sets up one couple from each demographic

The word ham – hamster, hammy -- is a pet one of Indian film reviewers. Most audiences can’t tell a ham from a burger. But I have a suggestion for you to figure when an actor’s hamming it up on screen. Observe them closely. They emote – twitch their foreheads, roll their eyeballs, uncomfortably move their hands around, scream for attention – even when lurking in the shadow. The big screen magnifies their self-awareness. Each time, they react.

Anyone who's spent a lazy afternoon tucking into the delicious sali boti at Britannia or the cherry cream custard at Kyani can appreciate the climatic conflict of Tum Milo Toh Sahi, in which an old-fashioned Irani cafe must be saved from a greedy corporate giant that wants to turn it into one of those homogenized coffee shop franchises. Had this been the basic premise of director Kabir Sadanand's film instead of its predictable take on contemporary relationships

This week, old is gold. So if you are a fan of either Nana Patekar or Dimple Kapadia, then Tum Milo Toh Sahi (TMTS) is worth a watch, since the unlikely duo is still red hot and on the ball. As for the rest of the movie, TMTS stays average and dull, full of the usual Bollywood clichés, long on dialogue and short on fresh ideas. The very beginning, with an English track going, “It's not about a coffee, it's about you and me”, hints at the puerile space

There is a huge cup — bigger than the faces of almost all the actors — in the poster of Tum Milo Toh Sahi which also comes in an animated format in the opening credits of the film. Are they referring to Milo the drink, like some kind of a title sponsor? What does the title mean in the first place? Having sat through the 135 minutes running time, we still have no clue. Wait, there’s a cafe. Lucky Cafe. Where all the characters of the film come.

Star cast: Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Rehan Khan, Anjana Sukhani, Sunil Shetty, Vidya Malvade, Mohnish Bahl.