Zindagi 50-50 Movie Reviews

The film revolves around three women Rupa (Supriya Kumari, brilliant as a housewife), Naina (Riya Sen as a struggling actor needs acting lessons) and Madhuri (Veena Malik, acts well as a prostitute) as they make compromises to achieve their dreams. The story brings to the fore the shortage of housing in Mumbai as Rupa and her auto rickshaw-driver husband Birju (Rajan Verma) eke out a living and yet trudge on with their lives in the hope of getting

It doesn't matter what the intent of the filmmaker is, if the execution fails to live up to the concept altogether. Zindagi 50-50 aspires to stress on the dilemmas of the lower middle class inhabitants of Mumbai. That significant aspect however takes a backseat as the film resorts to sex and sleaze to get the point across. In order to attract the masses, besides the ample skin show, dialogues are loaded with sexual innuendo, all of which is unnecessary

The idea indeed was very good, to bring into relief the compromises that a woman has to make in a heartless city - Mumbai to make a living, and the three protagonists chosen to etch out the struggle, Veena Malik as a prostitute, Supriya Kumari as a common woman living in chawl in the city and Riya Sen as a struggling starlet, all in their own way trying to find a permanent head over their head. It is the script and the direction of Rajiv S. Ruia really turned