Mod Movie Reviews

It's a sweet, small and simple film spilling over with charming locales and charming people too. All the lead actors have lived their roles with an authenticity, including Tanvi Azmi as the buddy aunt and Raghubir Yadav, the fond daddy who is a diehard Kishore Kumar bhakt. Ayesha Takia and Rannvijay Singh bring to life a tender and unusual romance with their slightly dysfunctional comings and goings. Then what goes wrong? It's the pace of the film that takes its toll

In an idyllic hill station tucked away somewhere in the Nilgiris, lives a spirited young girl who repairs time-pieces for a living. She sends her father out in the street because he won't give up drinking, but wakes him up from his roadside sleeping place with a hot cuppa each morning. This Little Ms Perfect is Aranya (played by Ayesha Takia), the heroine of director Nagesh Kukunoor's 'Mod', an inconsistent but well-intentioned love story that unfortunately doesn't work

While Bollywood is fanatical about mega-budgets, top stars and international locales, Nagesh Kukunoor, by and large, looks the other way. Low costs, absence of big stars, sleepy and secluded locations [except 8 x 10 TASVEER and BOMBAY TO BANGKOK]… Kukunoor has made movies that may not really boast of gargantuan budgets, but have stories that linger in your memory. You expect MOD, his new outing, to live up to the expectations as well

Nagesh Kukunoor, who has followed the 'simple story, simple treatment' formula in his films throughout his career, does so in Mod too. The film has a seemingly complex plot -- that of a girl falling in love with a man with a Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), but Kukunoor stays away from the temptation to go down the thriller route, or even make the film over dramatic. Instead, he lays out his cards right upfront -- you know the boy has the disorder early

Mountains, waterfalls, greenery, and Ayesha Takia - they all have one thing in common: they are pleasing to the eye. You get plenty of all this eye candy throughout the film, including a little train that winds through these pretty hills. There's a station called Ganga and an old man sitting there watching the little train every day, waiting for his wife, we are told. She doesn't turn up till the movie ends. The old man is a drunkard and a Kishore Kumar fan

Two weeks ago, we had Mausam, which could have been a sensitive romantic film but went haywire. This week, we have Mod, which again manages to just about reach the could-have-been line. Mod to its credit has a sensitive story of an extremely lovable girl falling for a boy who is in love with her since their school days, in a small idyllic town. Andy (Ranvijay Singh) is so in love with Aranya (Ayesha) that he dunks his watch everyday in water

The sylvan hill-station and its slow pace is just the place for Nagesh Kukunoor’s latest, about the love between a girl who fixes watches, and a young man who is frozen in time. The director has an eye for good-looking locations, but lately he’s not had much luck with his movies. On that scale, `Mod’, inspired by Taiwanese film ‘Keeping Watch’, is better than his previous disastrous `Tasveer’, but not by much. Aranya (Takia) is a busy young woman

Mod Review by Komal Nahta Biz rating: 1/5 star. What’s Good: Performances of the actors; the shocking twist abou...