VISHAY HARD (Marathi)

Producer-Director: Sumit Patil

Cast: Parna Pethe, Sumit Patil, Hassan Sheikh, Vipin Borate and Nitin Kulkarni

Platform of Release: theatres

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By Jyothi Venkatesh

The cute little film set in a village during the time when the Covid epidemic creates a havoc all over the world begins when 21-year-old Dolly (Parna Pethe) finds out that a 32-year-old constable suitor Kishor is coming to see her for marriage. Kishor likes her and the parents decide that the wedding will happen that evening.

A scared Dolly calls her unemployed boyfriend Sandya (Sumit Patil) who is not only totally unemployed stuck in some strange situation to devise a way to elope. Later, Dolly loses her cell phone when she is running away fro0m her home to unite with Sandya whose phone is turned off, and they are unable to get in touch with each other. What happens later forms the crux of the plot.

Though the subject is nonlinear, the director sets out to treat the film like a nonlinear plot and has crammed the film with far too many characters in order to whip up a satire as a result of which the film fails to move till the interval appears and after the interval, the subject perks up a little and the viewer is treated amply till he or she experiences a stomach ache.

To a large extent the film is enlivened by its catchy and melodious music by Sahil Kulkarni as well as not only the story by Sumit Patel but also screenplay and direction by Sumit Patel and Deepak Madekar.

As far as the performances of the star cast is concerned, all that I can vouchsafe is that though Parna Pethe is perhaps the only known actor in the star cast, she does elevate the film to its brim with her endearing part as the leading lady Dolly. Sumit Patil not only plays the typical leading man but also navigate the film properly as the story writer, screenplay and dialogue writer as well as the director, with effortless ease.

Hassan Sheikh as Shirin and Nitin Kulkarni as the Police Patil in the village serve adequate laughter in their comic roles in the film and add to the mirth quotient in the film, which can easily be touted as a breezy little entertainer, which is likely to fare better in the interiors, with its flavour tilted towards the rural landscape.