REVIEW: Hope and a Little Sugar
Buzz18 is Hope and a Little Sugar's online partner. So would we say the film is one of the best post-9/11 films to have been made? Or better still would we tell you what a brilliant filmmaker Tanuja Chandra is? Or would we go ahead and hail Amit Sial as the next best thing in Bollywood?
Let's start from the last question first. Amit Sial may not necessarily the next big thing in Bollywood. He has a lot of promise, but we'd stop at that.
Answer two: Tanuja Chandra is a sensitive filmmaker. Portraying human emotions is her forte and sure enough she does the same here.
Answer one: Hope and a Little Sugar is a good film. Is it a great film? Perhaps not, but it does leave a mark in the genre of post-9/11 films.
Finally, the big question: would we recommend you to watch this film? Tie-ups apart, we would be lying if we'd say no.
Hope and a Little Sugar works for two reasons – Mahima Chaudhry's performance and Tanuja Chandra's direction. But first things first…
The story
Ali Siddique (Amit Sial) is an aspiring photographer in New York who pays his bills with his bike messenger job. When he is on one such assignment, Saloni (Mahima) spots him and mistakes him for a family friend.
The forlorn Ali finds himself hopelessly attracted to the beautiful Saloni and makes his way into her house party. But he is soon disappointed when he finds out that she's in fact happily married to Harry Oberoi (Vikram Chatwal).
Yet he continues to visit their house partly because of Saloni and partly for the warmth her family has shown.
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This is ridiculous. Who cares about your tie-ups? I was put off by the first few lines of this review. Sorry to say but please avoid mentioning such crass commercial angles when you review a film because a reader doesn't care for your commercial tie-ups.