Mithya

Director: Rajat Kapoor

The sanskrit word Mithya basically means "False, pretention, Make-believe"...
mithya the film is the story of a hard working small time bollywood junior artist, VK, who unfortunately resembles an underworld don...

i wont give away the plot of the film but this i will definitely say, the movie is beautiful...
it has these touches of dark dark humor which leaves you smiling inwardly but sad on the crust....

The film makes one wonder, what is real and what is unreal... when the actor and the character converge, its such a pure surrender, that its not acceptable to man...

During the first half of the movie, Ranvir is in love with Neha and during the second half, when Ranvir looses his memory, and spends some time as don Raje Bhaisaheb, he falls in love with his wife and kids. As a result, He is unable to return to his normal life... Neha(Sonam), once again helps him... unconditionally... and he loves her too... its just beautiful the way he is shown, by the end of the film, in love with both Raje's wife and Sonam, and the fact that he accepts it...

To top it up, we have Saurabh Shukla, Vinay Pathak, Naseruddin Shah... the perfect ingredients for a meaningful, yet fun film... the new breed of films that have the lightness of Bollywood and the punch of parallel cinema... strong scripts, great performances... especially ranvir... he leaves you sooo moved and touched with his performances...

Among the scenes that would particularly be my favorites would definitely be :

• the scene where VK , after loosing his memory confesses to Sonam that he didn't remember her name. at this Sonam tells him that it was alright even if he didnt recollect her name... later on in the film, VK is shot and before dying, he sees flashes of his life and finally he sees all his happy moments with sonam... and screams out her name and sonam who is being dragged away by Gavde (Naseeruddin shah) turns around and smiles... inspite of the fact that she knows he's dead... its like just because he remembered her name, it was, for her, worth it to die for him...
• the scene where she kisses him and says "Bye".
• the last scene where the guys disposing Sonam's body say, "it was a love story. a sad, very sad love story". it was just the perfect ending

All in all the film will leave you slightly disturbed, numb and lost. but definitely satiated... its the raw honesty of the script that will hit you and leave an impact for good...after a long long time, a film maker has told his story, the cinema way... a must watch for cinema lovers and a MUST watch for those who are suckers for a layered, dramatic cinematic experience...

i give the film **** rating.
and personally take this opportunity to thank Rajat for making this film... its beautiful.