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'Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar'

By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

“Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar” is an emotional drama dealing with the search of a self-assured girl for her mother whose identity has been kept a secret from her. A woman-oriented subject, the film traces Sareena’s quest for her self-identity apart from touching upon other juvenile issues.

The film directed by Tanuja Chandra is an arty fare that doesn’t call for much attention. It is ridden with usual song-and-dance sequences and other common stereotypes of Bollywood.

Tanuja

lends a brisk pace to the story in the first half, but takes it too soon to the boiling point by the interval time. Then she sets about eliciting confessions and revelations from her characters.

Sareena realizes that she is an illegitimate child abandoned because her mother Sister Namrata (Nafisa Ali) was raped. Jai too has a pricking of conscience and he begins to see Sareena as more than ‘just another story’ for his newspaper.

Mahesh Bhatt’s script is involving but it leans on the time-tested cliches of commercial cinema.

For instance Sareena is shown as a self-reliant girl but at the same time she has to lean on Jai’s shoulders (the man accused of slandering by Sareena’s father) time and again during her quest.

Also astonishing is the alacrity with which Sareena turns oblivious to her surroundings and goes about prancing with Jai. This wasn’t expected of Tanuja Chandra.

At the same time there are certain positives to the film too. The story and the plot is novel. Also laudable is Tanuja’s adeptness in getting a many-shaded performance from Bollywood’s latest sensation Amisha Patel.

Amisha proves that she is a consummate actress with a solid performance. Nafisa Ali impresses but her role is relegated into a mere cameo.

On the other hand, Jimmy Shergill needs to bring much more maturity into his acting. One can often catch him hamming through the scenes.

Rating: Timepass

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