Dear Anu Menon,
your film was reasonably entertaining. But I wish you had given more space to Naseer's character. The whole film should have been about Shiv Kumar (Naseer) waiting on his sick wife. Kalki Koechlin's character was clichéd and annoying. And Kalki is a very average actress. She has also lost a lot of weight and looked anorexic and vicious. Rajat Kapoor after all these years is more self conscious than a young actor like S.V.Krishna Shankar (he played Koya in Premam). Your direction was nothing to write home about. Waiting is as good or bad as another one of those Indian films about upper middle class folk. You let the actors and editor do their jobs. The film is instructive about how Indians ought to behave when their relatives are in the hospital. Most of us descend into hysteria and phony melancholy. But your film seems to suggest that there are better ways to live through this.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(5/10)
your film was reasonably entertaining. But I wish you had given more space to Naseer's character. The whole film should have been about Shiv Kumar (Naseer) waiting on his sick wife. Kalki Koechlin's character was clichéd and annoying. And Kalki is a very average actress. She has also lost a lot of weight and looked anorexic and vicious. Rajat Kapoor after all these years is more self conscious than a young actor like S.V.Krishna Shankar (he played Koya in Premam). Your direction was nothing to write home about. Waiting is as good or bad as another one of those Indian films about upper middle class folk. You let the actors and editor do their jobs. The film is instructive about how Indians ought to behave when their relatives are in the hospital. Most of us descend into hysteria and phony melancholy. But your film seems to suggest that there are better ways to live through this.
Best Regards, Pimpin.
(5/10)