Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain movie cast: Sanjay Mishra, Ekavali Khanna, Anshuman Jha, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Pankaj Tripathi, Brijendra Kala Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain movie director: Harish Vyas Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain movie rating: Two and a half stars How many ways are there to say those immortal words, \u2018I love you\u2019? A myriad. From the \u2018I don\u2019t have to say it: you know I do\u2019 to \u2018I will say it as many times I have breath\u2019. Until I don\u2019t. Pyaar vyaar\u2019. Love \u2018shuv\u2019. Or something like that. Whichever you slice it, it\u2019s what keeps us going, right along the spectrum\u2014from the long-marrieds-fighting-deadly-ennui, to the first-flush-oh-my-god-is-she-really-looking-at-me\u2014and the in-betweens. Yashwant Batra (Mishra) and Kiran (Khanna) are going about their duties as a much-married, much-harried couple, the former bringing the bread in, the latter keeping house, and being parents to spirited young woman Preeti (Raghuvanshi), who has a yen for a neighbourhood fellow (Jha). Some of the film is pleasing in the way it brings out the dull familiarity that plagues a well-excavated relationship, and both Mishra and Khanna feel sufficiently lived in. He has a middling job, and a ratty scooter; she belongs to a wealthier family which owns several large four wheelers and a spoilt male sibling. Things are getting along, with duties to the fore, till one day Yashwant\u2019s refusal, or inability, to say those three crucial words, or, even more crucially, act upon them, brings about a crisis. He belongs to that breed which believes its not in the saying but the doing: he gets his salary home, doesn\u2019t he? He drinks only at home, doesn\u2019t he? What more can a \u2018dharm-patni\u2019 want? The contrast is set up, with both the younger couple, who are biding their time to declare their till-now clandestine love, as well as another: a loving husband(Tripathi) looking for succor for his ill wife, both of whom with no difficulty in expressing their affection. As a set-up, and that too in picturesque Varanasi, the NFDC-produced Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain, has much promise, because it tries to examine the complex feelings which keep a marriage afloat, and how long-time partners dance around daily-ness and disappointments. The principal characters are believable\u2014Batraji (nice to see Mishra leading from the front) with his irascible chip on both shoulders, long-suffering wife Kiran (the expressive Khanna, who is suddenly everywhere) who yearns for something more, the cheerful neighbor with a big heart (Kala, always worth your time), the man who is devotedly tending to his sick wife (the marvellous Tripathi in a near-walk on role which feels all too brief ), Raghuvanshi (so good in Titli) and Jha, lending able support. But the film is plagued with some amount of staginess. Parts of it feel overstated, rather than subtly touched upon. And there\u2019s a distinct dip when Batraji goes looking for ways to do \u2018pyaar ka izhaar\u2019. For a film attempting to subvert the standard notions of young Bollywood love, to take recourse in the very same tropes, is a slide. But, and I will say this with deliberation, it\u2019s nice to see films focusing on men and women in middle age, and their needs and desires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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