Starring: Aruna Shields, Prashant Narayanan, Lucy Hassan, Naved Aslam
Directed by Pravesh Bhardwaj
Rating: *
It doesn’t take long for debutant director Pravesh Bhardwaj’s Mr Singh Mrs Mehta to slip into absurd territory. In a plot suspiciously similar to Wong Kar-Wai’s classic In The Mood For Love, Neera Singh (Aruna Shields) and Ashwin Mehta (Prashant Narayanan) happen to jointly discover that their spouses are having an affair. But there are no confrontations or ugly scenes—Mr Singh (Naved Aslam) and Mrs Mehta (Lucy Hassan) are able to take off secretly to Paris for a romantic getaway. The broken-hearted Neera needs a shoulder to cry and it is Ashwin’s—naturally. An unconvincing version of the betrayed husband, he seems rather too excited at the prospect of...
