‘Cabaret’: Comedy masquerading as drama of doomed damsel (Movie Review)

‘Cabaret’: Comedy masquerading as drama of doomed damsel (Movie Review) Film: “Cabaret” (ZEE5); Director: Kaustav Narayan Niyogi; Cast: Richa Chadha, Gulshan Devaiah and S. Sreesanth.

‘Cabaret’: Comedy masquerading as drama of doomed damsel (Movie Review) on Business Standard. Film: “Cabaret” (ZEE5); Director: Kaustav Narayan Niyogi; Cast: Richa Chadha, Gulshan Devaiah and S. Sreesanth.

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» Do you recall those ravishing, sizzling cabaret

numbers by Helen in the movies of the 1970s? Indeed? What’s more, do you recall the 1972 Liza Minnelli exemplary titled “Cabaret” for which the onscreen actress won an Oscar?

Okay. Now erase the memories of Helen and Minnelli. Chances are, after seeing “Cabaret”, you would never want look at another cabaret number. On second thought, it would be hard for you to go to the following Richa Chadha film without a shiver of worry.

This one drags you down to the dungeons of despair. Windowless and dingy.

“Cabaret” opens with brutish policeman in Jharkhand gunning down a

husband and after that approaching her gruffly for sexual favors. Vipin Sachdeva, who plays the policeman, doesn’t keep it unpretentious.

For what reason should he, while everything around him shouts for consideration. He simply unzips his trousers and tells the woman to get on with it. This is a man in yoni-form.

The woman, Razia alias Rose played by Richa, flees to Dubai after gunning down the policeman where in no time at all, we see her dancing to a ruinously subversive remix of Pankaj Udhas' "Mohe aaye na jag ki laaj".

Come again? Is this a cabaret? If it is, then Helen is suing. And what is that Richa is wearing? It looks like a corset tied to the ropes that are used to pull cows towards their sheds. Nope. Richa clearly can't dance. But that's okay. No one in this dolorously, dreadful and doomed drama does anything that can be called remotely cinematic.

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