Ek Chhotisi Love Story

This movie is an assault to the senses and an insult to intelligence. Crappy Bollywood thieves churn out senseless copies of foreign classics, sans all their dignity, artistic value and finesse. As if murdering Hollywood movies wasn't enough, they are now gleefully mutilating avant garde European filmmakers like Kieslowski and Antonioni. The less said about the actors the better. What else can you expect from mindless copycats? Bollywood stinks! They don't even have the decency to acknowledge the originals. With the amount of money at their disposal, Bollywood guys could have made better movies. At least they are financially much better off than their Iranian, Romanian and Turkish counterparts. But it is the the utter lack of imagination and creativity that afflicts the filmmakers in this part of the world. The exceptions to this (Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and a few other such people) have always been relegated to the periphery of the popular cinema circles of India. Truly unfortunate.

its nothing more than a cheap lift from Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue six, thou shall not commit adultery.

the movie fails to inspire, and is a drag, trust me, watch the original one.

its a classic.

the film by shashilal nair, crated controversies, of course for wrong reasons, i was inspired to see the film as the film contains some steamy scenes of Manisha Koirala, but unfortunately , there is none....

A perfect example of how bollywood can destroy even the most well made movies.

This is one of the worst Bollywood films ever made. It tells the sickening story of a 15 year old boy who loves a 26 year old women. Its weird, cos the boy is just so annoying and looks stupid. He spends long hours just spying on her with his telescope. Thats right, 50% of this movie, is the boy spying on her. Who is this film aimed at and what kind of people will enjoy this kind of trap. Its like gazing at a security camera hidden in someones room. With respect i would like to add that if the actress was beautiful and sexy, maybe the film would of had a reason to watch it. Manisha Koirala looks old, scruffy and ugly. There are little scenes of sex which is rare in Bollywood. Even these scenes were unsatisfying and turned me off. Manisha has made some of the most bizarre movies in Bollywood, Who knows why she chose this path. Some of these movies include Tum, Escape from Taliban and Market. The twist is even more disgraceful, where the boy stops looking at her and instead she starts spying on him. Rubbish acting from all actors in this movie, bad direction from Shashilal Nair. Do not watch this movie, a big waste of time.

This underlying plot and story had great potential and it was really curious to see how the director would handle such a complicated situation and what kind of psychology would be involved or if the boy really gets the girl? Unfortunately nothing is done and none of the emotional pain or complications are ever explored. The boys is portrayed as nothing more than a voyeur who spies on the woman. His intents seem more sexual than anything else. The woman doesn't handle the kid in a rather expected complicated fashion but eventually ends up taking him in, overacting all the way. Yeah right. The media made a lot of noise about this movie's censorship but it doesn't have any real explicit sexual content. In the end, it seems that someone got a good idea but did'nt know how to proceed.

The tragedy with this movie, if the censor norms are to be followed, is that the hero of the movie (the boy) won't be able to see this movie for the next 3 years in any theatre as he is just 15 and the CBFC has rated the film " STRICTLY FOR ADULTS". And with this classification by the censors, do we assume that the other adult movies which are un-strictly rated as A can be dealt with more leniently.

Anyway, about the movie, it's an ultimate test of your patience. In fact, the first 10 minutes made me wonder whether it was a silent movie until a word was finally uttered at the eleventh minute. And our ex-Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vaypayee has some tough competition here, because the dialogue delivery by the characters are much slower than his speeches.

Assuming it to be an experimental cinema with an unusual theme and without any songs or the regular masala items, expectations were high, but I was sorely disappointed. A boy, who lives only with his granny in some posh apartments, has his telescope constantly focused on the windows of the opposite flat secretly watching the personal activities of a woman. He is 15 – well, accepted. She is 26 – no way. Appearing older than 36 and heavier than 63, dunno what did the boy find so sexy about the women? Add to it her lousy dressing sense and a boyfriend who looks like her son and comes to her home regularly for some sex sex bang bang escapades. And all this while the woman never bothers to shut the windows of her apartment.

You can shut your eyes though. Not out of shame or disgust but boredom. A plot that could have been interesting if explored properly, this one is neither entertaining nor titillating. Ek Choti Si Love Story, Ek Bada Sa headache.