Review - 'Sadda Adda' is pleasantly surprising

New Delhi: One will walk in expecting a comedy of sorts after they take a look at the poster of ‘Sadda Adda’. But be prepared to be pleasantly surprised!

The movie is a decent amount of fun. Yes, the actors are new and inexperienced, some sequences in the movie are unnecessary – but the situations director and writer Muazzam Beg brings to screen in ‘Sadda Adda’ – are very real.

The story revolves around 6 boys crammed in to a 2 bed room house they call ‘Sadda Adda’ – Samir, Kabir, Irfan, Rajat, Jogi and Safal. Each of the boys have their own battles to fight, own dreams to chase and even some love to make the tough moments bearable. They struggle for the rent as they struggle for things to fall in to place – and clearly, like most real stories – it is not easy.

Samir (Karan Sharma) is a theatre actor who manages to bag a role in a Hollywood film to be shot in India – but loses it all when he falls in love with the rich and (wannabe) sexy Shreya. Shreya (Shaurya Chauhan) loves her drag racing and feels that she need not care about Samir for their lives are their own. Irfan (Bhaumik Sampat) works in an architectural firm where Riddhima (Kahkkashan Aryan), his colleague wishes that she did not have a boy friend so as she could hit on Irfan and has a boss who thinks Muslims are not trustworthy and yet steals Irfan’s project blueprints to pass it off as his own. Rajat (Rohin Robert) wants a white collar job in the US and his dad gives him a year’s time to figure out his way or return to make roads and houses as all ‘Jats’ do. Kabir (Kunal Panth) a door-to-door Aquaguard salesman hopes to make it big – but jobs just never come his way. Safal (Parimal Alok) is the 'shudh' Hindi speaking IAS aspirant from Bihar – doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke and addresses the rest of debaucherous flatmates as – ‘Paapi!’. Jogi (Rohit Arora) – the youngest of the bunch has the best business sense and has no qualms about taking care of the house while the other 5 are away.

Their lives come to a standstill when Safal commits suicide after not clearing the Civil Services Exams on his last attempt. But life moves on – as Samir stumbles in his career, Rajat leaves for New Jersey; while Jogi takes over Kabir’s door-to-door ‘Aquaguard’ hawking, Kabir is still job hunting; and as Irfan tries to get Kabir a break – he gets fired. Real situations – real people.

The movie tag line goes - The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you. The 5 figure this out the hard way – as real people do. The new faces are not instant star material – but they are endearing. The 6 boys steal the show over the women who try to show their ‘oomph’ with scanty clothes. The best part about the movie is how real it comes across to be – the audience will identify with the boys, their falls and their successes. The music of the film has been given by Shamir Tandon, Band of Boys and Ramji Gulati – and the song ‘Sarphira Hai’ is beautiful.

5 years down the line – the boys are successful and happy – but as Jogi quotes Donald Trump in the movie – the success might seem to have come over night – but no one knows how long the night was. Believable? Definitely.

Catch the movie with friends – one may never know which episode of their lives has been pulled out and placed on screen. A good effort by the cast and crew – and clearly they have a lot of potential. The acting, the over all feel of the movie could use some more ‘sleekness’ but it is fun to watch.

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