Friday 20 March 2015

HUNTERRR (A): Not all great foreplays ensure great climaxes! [2/5]

The stage/bed is set. Nicely decorated with all flowery elements, scented in the most arousing aroma and with dimly lit intense mood-making ambient! Charming players [more than you can imagine but essentially and effectively three in this case] have taken their pre-marked place. So far so good! You have all the control over the most before the drum rolls and the game begins; still no one can guarantee an orgasmic climax or even a smooth ride to make it a satisfying s-experience. First timer Harshvardhan Kulkarni’s ‘coming of age’ sex-comedy HUNTERRR is exactly like any love-making situation; you never know which side the camel will sit. Foreplay is just foreplay. It can’t replace the final act, no matter how skillfully it is being performed. Contrary to the myths, the extensive length doesn’t always ensure great pleasure. You may slower the pace, withdraw your force at regular intervals but the rhythm has to be there…and HUNTERRR lacks it. It is one of those failed sex-adventures where you were all set to lose yourself but it never happened the way you imagined.

Mandar Ponkshe [Gulshan Devaiah] has always been a sex-addict all his life. He’s been hunting ladies of all sorts since his young days. A college girl, an unhappy housewife in his building, a passionate sex-lover; the list is countless. But at 40, this is the age when he must get settled. His all ‘grown-up’ uncle-look is killing his charm. Tripti [Radhika Apte] - a modern girl who can unhesitatingly confess all her past affairs is his last bet to start a fresh. Can he put it on risk by telling her about his irrepressible compulsion to hit on any possible bait in saree, skirt or denims? Or will he be able to tame this wild animal in him for everyone’s good?

HUNTERRR promises not to be in the league of regular adult-comedies with lewd double-meaning dialogues and the objectification of women with their body parts shown on screen in the most abusive manner but at the same time, couldn’t hold itself from portraying its women characters as the dumbest class on earth. They can be easily fooled and brought to bed by any average looking-certainly ‘not so smart in his tricks’ guy. Why on earth there was not a single female who could bring him beneath her? Yet, some sequences sure work well with a catchy retro-feel soundtrack [Bappi Lahiri and Altaf Raja’s tracks are perfect to recreate the era] and an authentically designed middle-class settings playing the believable quotient in the final mixture. The young days in the plot are potent and fun. The characters are very much from the neighborhood.

Performances are a relief. They make you stay in the game though the ‘too much’ back and forth narrative style takes all the fun and excitement out of this cheesy looking film of great promises. Sai Tamhankar as the sensuously attractive housewife is perfectly cast. She is expressive, impressive and talented enough to pull it off like no one else could have. Radhika Apte is all about how confident, bold and clear Indian women are today. She brings an effortless and comforting performance yet a very radiant one. And then, the hunter himself! Gulshan’s charming looks and impenitently impish-scheming & teasing body language do it the way it should be. He may not be the typical hero with qualities to die for but sure there’s something in him inexplicable that makes you go with him all the way from start to end. He gives strong shoulders to rest this comparatively weaker film.

HUNTERRR also tries to speak for domestic sexual violence and new finds in modern age of marriages like compatibility and trust but it is all just some words at touch & go. Overall; it is not a sleazy but lazy, long but loose and ‘not so satisfying’ session. There’s always a next time and a more suitable position to try! [2/5]                 

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