Saas Bahu Aur Sensex

Can women understand the complex world of finance, stocks and shares, and the Sensex? Or should they be confined to watching 8216;saas bahu8217; serials?

Shona Urvashi8217;s second film has a whopper of an idea. And stalwarts fronting it. Kirron Kher is the divorced, desperately-in-need-of-money Binita Sen, who lands up at the door of Feroz Sethna, an eccentric out-of-work stock broker Farooq Sheikh. He is rude and brusque. She is angry and annoyed. And then it turns into a profitable partnership, professional and personal.

The interplay between these two consummate actors could have taken Warner Brothers8217; first Indian production Saas Bahu Aur Sensex to an interesting place. But the director sends out confusing signals by gathering up a bunch of kitty-party aunties, converting them from couch potatoes to eager Economic Times-reading stock hounds, and then letting them slip, and lose money. What is she trying to say: can they or can8217;t they? 8220;Aaj sharad purnima hai, aaj toh Sensex zaroor upar jayega8221;, intones Mrs Sen. Leaving the irascible Mr Sethna beaming, and, horrors, agreeing.

So is greed good? Mrs Sen, who8217;s been picking up all the rising stocks unerringly, suddenly becomes all over-pious, and rants on about the evils of wanting to make money. Huh? In between, youngsters working on today8217;s jobs crop up. Tanushree and Ankur are call centre execs, refining their Yank accents. Masumeh is a femme fatale, who wants 8216;moneh8217;, not love.

In the end, it8217;s so all-over-the place and indeterminate that you couldn8217;t be bothered. What makes up for the rest is watching the inimitable Farooq in a full-fledged role, and Kirron as a non-stereotyped Bollywood mom, both after a long time.

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