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Bookmark this pageSaas Bahu aur Sensex (2008)
Director: Shona Urvashi
Movie review
From Time Out London
Warner Bros's first foray into Bollywood is not your stock masala movie. Female director Shona Urvashi’s second effort is an unconventional comedy about a group of diverse middle-class Indian housewives who flirt with the Indian Stock Exchange (‘the Sensex’). It offers some accurate insights into ‘anything is possible’ in new ‘shining India’. Humour is evoked at the adoption of American accents in call centres, at trashy addictive Indian family soaps (‘Mother in law was once a virgin’) and at Tamil potboilers. Despite progressive intentions, its breezy and unchallenging view of modern day Mumbai life where everyone lives in harmony and is share-obsessed is too simplistic. In light of recent events, its fulsome praise for the upward spiral of the financial market is misjudged.Author: Anil Sinanan
Time Out London Issue 1988, Sept 25 - October 1
Cast & crew
Director: Shona Urvashi
Cast: Kiron Kher, Tanushree Dutta, Ankur Khanna
Rated: PG
Duration: 144 mins
UK Release: Sep 19 2008
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