Bombay Talkies -Hindi Film - Bollywood Movie - Indian Cinema DVD- 2013

Rightly promoted as a project featuring four different short films directed by four eminent directors of the present times, it reminds you of few similar attempts in the past such as DARNA MANA HAI (Series), SALAAM-E-ISHQ, DUS KAHANIYAN, DHOBI GHAT and more. But here the difference is that each of the four stories has a connection with Cinema, which is prominently visible in only Dibaker and Anurag's films to be honest and just vaguely present in the others.Particularly the one which surprises you the most is the first section itself by Karan Johar. It's a story about a couple and their interaction with a new young male friend who is a gay. Now though as an individual case, these 30 minutes are engaging, shocking and entertaining too but still the story has a very indistinct connection with cinema as compared to others and seems to be a weird-misfit in the film. In fact the only reference of movies in it is a music room full of vintage records or a beggar girl singing Hindi film songs for a living. The three actors in it namely Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda and Saqib Saleeb all act well but the story gets the least marks here participating in the 100 years celebration of Indian Cinema, due to its noticeably unrelated theme.