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Jul 3, 2012, 6:25:52 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''Tunnu Ki Tina'''
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+1994 161’ col Hindi
+d/s Paresh Kamdar pc NFDC lyr Bharat
+Acharya, Ramesh Shah c K.K. Mahajan m Rajat
+Dholakia
+lp Sunil Barve, Rajeshwari, Virendra Saxena,
+Renuka Shahane, Rohini Hattangadi
+
+
+Kamdar’s debut film avoids the pitfalls of the
+New Indian Cinema’s tendency to rescue
+‘commercial’ films by relying on quotations and
+an allegedly Brechtian self-reflexiveness (cf.
+Saeed Mirza, Ketan Mehta). The film tells the
+tale of a middle-class college youth, Tunnu
+(Barve), and his unfortunate love life. He first
+falls for an equally middle-class girl (Shahane),
+but abandons her when the sexy Tina
+(Rajeshwari) reassures his narcissism. His
+adventures are intercut with those of his conman
+father (Saxena), a real-estate tout. In the
+end, the father comes to financial grief,
+Tunnu’s sister elopes with a Shiv Sena-type
+slumdweller and Tunnu’s girlfriend deserts
+him, leaving him wondering whether she ever
+existed. Tunnu joins the real-estate business,
+his optimism undiminished. The film starts with
+a brief narration of this tale in the ‘Hindi movie’
+idiom, set in a hotel lobby and followed by a
+chase, before beginning its own story. Its main
+achievement, via numerous double-takes,
+resides in the way it reduces the entire business
+of storytelling to its stereotypical function,
+forcing viewers constantly to doubt the
+narrative’s truth value even as it wallows in
+several realist conventions.
+
+[[Film]]