Sirf

Cast : Manisha Koirala, Sonali Kulkarni, Ranbir Shorey, Parveen Dabbas, Rituparna Sengupta, Ankur Khanna, Nauheed Cyrusi. Director : Rajatesh Nayar Producer : n.a Genre : Release Date : 25-4-2008

Synopsis Life is like highway on the night when you don't know what awaits you on the next turn, still people move on with hope in their heart and dreams in their eyes. SIRF – ‘life looks greener on the other side’ takes an insight into the lives of these people. How the pace of the city affects their relationships, how they deal with it, how the problems of one person many times bring comical relief for others. No matter what happens, life has to go on. The film revolves around four couples played by Kay Kay Menon with Manisha Koirala, Sonali Kulkarni with Ranbir Shorey, Parveen Dabbas with Rituparna Sengupta and Ankur Khanna with Nauheed Cyrusi. While one couple has money, they are looking for love. Other has love but money is missing in their life and the third couple is searching for trust. Fourth couple has to find time to nurture everything else that they have. They all belong to different levels of society and each couple has their own problems to deal with, but somewhere they all come across each other on the cross road of life. It is at this junction of life that they all can be set free from their worries। Will they find solutions or will their life be pushed into more chaos? Will this chaotic disorder show them the light of wisdom or will they fall in the darkness of folly? 'Sirf' is a tongue in cheek look at the fast paced life of people in cities, big or small. Reviews Sirf is the story of four couples who are battling their own set of issues as they try to build their life in the busy city of Mumbai. So we have Shalu (Nauheed Cyrusi) and Rahul (Ankur Khanna) who are desperate to get married but can't afford the rent in the city. Next are Namita (Sonali Kulkarni) and Akash (Ranvir Shorey) who have money but need to work all the time to ensure the money keeps coming in. They have a daughter who has a congenital heart defect and the guilt of leaving her for long hours with a maid isn't helping. . Meet couple number three - Suchita (Rituparna Sengupta) is a young bride from Jabalpur who has trust issues with her husband Amit (Parvin Dabas) who is from Mumbai. She is sure that her husband is ready to sleep with any woman and that is causing a rife in their marriage. And finally there is Devika (Manisha Koirala) and Gaurav (Kay Kay Menon) who are both successful professionals and in this need to move up the ladder they seem to have lost any sense of reality. While the director has made an earnest effort to make the film most of his starcast lets him down. Nauheed and Ankur Khanna do nothing to the viewer. Sonali Kulkarni needs to lose weight and Ranvir Shorey shouldn't have been in this film in the first place. Now let's come to the slightly senior actors. Manisha and Kay Kay Menon are horrendous. Manisha looks like she's never seen a mirror before coming for the shot while Kay Kay's depiction of the uncaring husband comes across as indifferent. And Rituparna looks older than Parvin! Take our advice and give this one a miss!