Monday, April 1, 2013

Review - Sona Spa

REVIEW - SONA SPA



Director: Makarand Deshpande
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Writer: Makarand Deshpande


Producer: Madan Paliwal
Cast & Crew: Naseeruddin Shah, Aahana Kumrah, Shruti Vyas, Pooja Pradhan , Vineet Sharma, Romi Jaispal and Nivedita Bhattacharya

Release Date: Mar 22, 2013




Review -  The story revolves around Sona Spa , a place where people hire someone else to sleep for themselves.These sleep workers sleep, for Rs. 2,500 per hour, and dream — this takes us to the regions of men’s lives, urges and fantasies.so while the client continue with his routine,  sleep worker sleeps for him and he feel rejuvenated and fresh?

Rucha (Shruti Vyas) and Ritu (Aahana Kumrah) both newcomers join Sona Spa in the hope of sleeping for their dear ones!  Rucha wants to sleep for her wealthy father who doesn’t get sleep since her mother’s death and is dance bar zombie and Ritu wants to sleep for her sister who’s equally traumatized after her mother and brother’s death. Rucha’s client includes Mr. Choksi (Romi Jaispal), a rich man who doesn’t get sleep while Ritu’s client is an undercover cop.

Sona Spa has a senior sleeper as well, Meenakshi (Nivedita Bhattacharya). A former prostitute, she no longer sleepswith her clients, but sleeps for them.

The first half deals with the dreams and fantasies of the clients of sona spa, Mr Choksi's sexual fantasies, his illicit extramarital affairs and violent scenes.It has some abusive dialouges and a couple of scenes with cross-dressing.


The second half deals with the two , Rucha and Ritu having metamorphosed phase and deals with their personal life problems due to the clients dreams troubling them.

The movie is pretty much shown in the trailer.Nothing new apart from it.The story has some  interesting premise but the director was not able to fetch audience interest. 

As far as the actor’s performances are concerned, Naseeruddin Shah As Baba Dayanand hardly had any much to do, he is televised avatar .Aahana Kumrah did a brilliant job and gave full justice to her role. Nivedita Bhattacharya as Minakshi had some good dialogues and she too leaves a mark as an actress.Overall, the Actors picked by Makarand Despande had given some matured level of acting, I hope these so called big star of bollywood can perform at-least 20% of what these new comers had done. Hatsoff to the casting.


Makarand Deshpande as a director and writer disappointed.Cinematography is worse.


For all those who expected an 'Hatke' film, sorry people, the film is far from even being a thriller and is merely a sleazy fest and will disturb your movie watching appetite  After hearing of the play’s success one hoped the film would repeat history but maybe not.

Best Dialogue -“Hum neend ka business karte hai, Hum neend ka business karte hai”

Rating - 1 out of 5

Verdict - Ignorance is Bliss.Better to sleep for yourself and save your time and money.

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