I watched Baarish Aur Chowmein on Zee5 in orig. Hindi with Eng. Subs.
This is a delightful and light narration of a gradual romance building up between a PG tenant from UP: Suresh (Amit Sadh) and the landlady's daughter Neelu (Taapsee Pannu).
Suresh is actually Siraj who came from Lucknow to Mumbai to take up a job at the museum. Because he faces difficulty as a Muslim in getting a rental space, on the advice of his broker, he calls himself Suresh. In reality this is a problem faced by many and not just in Mumbai : Muslims, bachelors, single women.
The Maharashtrian landlady's family become good friends with Suresh and he is soon attracted to the feisty Neelu who works in the film industry as a chorus dancer. The friendship between the two gradually develops into a romance and Suresh discloses to Neelu that he is infact Siraj, asking her to marry him. Neelu had already discovered long back that Suresh is a Muslim. The inter religious relationship angle is gently portrayed. Watch the film to see how it all pans out ...
The narration is engaging throughout. Amit Sadh is good as Suresh/Siraj (much better than in the Breathe series). Tariq Naved Siddique is convincing as Bhattacharya, Siraj's colleague at the museum. The little boy who plays Neelu's brother is also good as is her step father and all the other characters. Taapsee acts well as Neelu but her diction lets her down, somehow Taapsee sounds like a North Indian not at all like a Bambaiyya speaking Mumbai Marathi mulgi. She could have worked on her Bambaiyya diction more, though she is otherwise a good actor.
Overall, Baarish Aur Chowmein is a pleasing and watchable film.
This is a delightful and light narration of a gradual romance building up between a PG tenant from UP: Suresh (Amit Sadh) and the landlady's daughter Neelu (Taapsee Pannu).
Suresh is actually Siraj who came from Lucknow to Mumbai to take up a job at the museum. Because he faces difficulty as a Muslim in getting a rental space, on the advice of his broker, he calls himself Suresh. In reality this is a problem faced by many and not just in Mumbai : Muslims, bachelors, single women.
The Maharashtrian landlady's family become good friends with Suresh and he is soon attracted to the feisty Neelu who works in the film industry as a chorus dancer. The friendship between the two gradually develops into a romance and Suresh discloses to Neelu that he is infact Siraj, asking her to marry him. Neelu had already discovered long back that Suresh is a Muslim. The inter religious relationship angle is gently portrayed. Watch the film to see how it all pans out ...
The narration is engaging throughout. Amit Sadh is good as Suresh/Siraj (much better than in the Breathe series). Tariq Naved Siddique is convincing as Bhattacharya, Siraj's colleague at the museum. The little boy who plays Neelu's brother is also good as is her step father and all the other characters. Taapsee acts well as Neelu but her diction lets her down, somehow Taapsee sounds like a North Indian not at all like a Bambaiyya speaking Mumbai Marathi mulgi. She could have worked on her Bambaiyya diction more, though she is otherwise a good actor.
Overall, Baarish Aur Chowmein is a pleasing and watchable film.