‘Kho Gaye Hum Kahan’ movie review: Bandra blues – The Hindu
Imaad, 25, is a Tinder addict, so you possibly can image his bewilderment when his date turns up with a digital camera in her bag and never a twinkle in her eyes. The woman, Simran, performed by Kalki Koechlin, isn’t there to bump uglies; she desires to {photograph} Imaad as he vegetates in his libidinous loneliness. “It’s for a challenge of mine,” she explains. “It’s referred to as The Individuals of Tinder”. Scenes of this kind seize the empty coronary heart of Kho Gaye Hum Kahan — effortfully hip, and coaching its lens on characters who usually are not very fascinating.
Imaad (Siddhant Chaturvedi) is a struggling standup comedian in Mumbai. ‘Struggling’ is a powerful phrase, since he has a big inheritance and a pad in Bandra. He shares it together with his bestie Ahana (Ananya Panday), a company guide; a 3rd good friend, Neil (Adarsh Gourav), went to the identical boarding college as them. After life throws this trio not possible curveballs like Ahana’s boyfriend happening a break and Neil realising he wants to maneuver up in life, they resolve to ‘begin up’, floating a health studio that Imaad will fortunately spend money on.
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan (Hindi)
Social media ties the a number of strands. Ahana begins to stalk her ex on Instagram, whereas Neil will get an enormous follower bump after clicking a selfie with Malaika Arora on the fitness center. Imaad, in his enormously unfunny standup units, ruminates bitterly on the vacancy and pretense of the digital age. Debutant director Arjun Varain Singh and co-writers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti current a half-baked critique of influencer tradition, everybody obsessive about ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ and dismissive of their true, genuine selves. It’s a restricted view of a fancy sociological phenomenon, and the writing tends to get judgemental (on-line trolls, this movie argues, are merely resentful of second-generation Bollywood stars).
It doesn’t enhance its trigger that Kho Gaye Hum Kahan has all of the aesthetic markers of a content material video. Tanay Satam’s cinematography is marked by a sterile, soft-focus magnificence. There’s a cameo by ‘comedy guide’ Sapan Verma, and two of the songs are by viral favourites OAFF–Savera. None of those internet-age artists appear to guide the type of vacuous, undeserved lives Kho Gaye Hum Kahan hints at; if something, it’s Bollywood that appears wanting to money in on their fame.
After Gehraiyaan (2022), Chaturvedi is forged in a really related function, a moony investor with a traumatic previous. Panday, too, seems to rehash her Tia from Shakun Batra’s movie. Solely Gourav holds his personal, enjoying this movie’s model of an ‘outsider’ function. In the direction of the top, there’s a scene the place Neil apologises to his father for his impertinence. The center-class constructing he grew up in and has belatedly discovered to worth known as — you guessed it — ‘Roots’.
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan is at present streaming on Netflix
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