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'Tum'

By ApunKaChoice Bureau
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

Kamini (Manisha Koirala) is a married woman in her thirties, with two children and a husband Vinod (Rajat Kapoor) who doesn’t devote much time to her. The two have been married for 18 years and, to revitalize their withering relationship, they decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Mauritius.

For the anniversary Kamini will reach Mauritius from Mumbai, while Vinod will come from New York. But because of certain reasons, Vinod gets stuck in New York and Kamini spends her time alone in a Mauritius hotel. There she bumps into a young photographer Jatin (Karan Nath) who gives her company and entertains her.

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the eve of her anniversary, Kamini and Jatin go out sight seeing, and then wine and dine together. In a tipsy state they go to Kamini’s bedroom and cross the forbidden limits. In the morning, guilt takes over Kamini when she finds Jatin sleeping in bed with her.

The same day when Vinod arrives, Kamini decides to tell him the truth but holds it for some more apt moment in the future. After having good time the two return back to Mumbai.

But Jatin can’t get Kamini out of his mind. Soon his desire for her turns into an obsession and he becomes friendly with her family. He begins to blackmail her and threatens to target her two teenage daughters if Kamini did not pander to his demands. But then, out of the blue, a murder takes place that changes the entire course of the story.

The low-point of Tum is that it’s story doesn’t follow a singular direction. It begins by showing the discontentment of a married woman and moves into her single moment of infidelity. Then the thread is again lost when the obsession of the young man becomes the highlight.

When you seemed sated with so many turns, the story takes another twist into a murder mystery. Too much of hodgepodge to digest. And, the climax of the movie, when the identity of a killer is revealed, is a complete letdown.

Director Aruna Raje has made an ineffective attempt to explore several angles like female sexuality, young man’s obsession for the elder woman (despite his gorgeous fiancée) and the murder suspense in a same story. The outcome is, to say the least, unimpressive. Except for few sequences the movie begins to drag in the first half only.

The performances by the leading cast are quite average. Manisha Koirala seems to be getting slotted into such roles that have sexual connotations. Newcomer Netanya Singh is no less disappointing than Karan Nath. Rajat Kapoor, however, fits into his role pretty well.

Average

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