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'Sulemani Keeda' review: It's engaging, entertaining and witty

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 06, Dec 2014, 15:20 pm IST | UPDATED: 06, Dec 2014, 15:20 pm IST

'Sulemani Keeda' review: It's engaging, entertaining and witty

New Delhi: Sulemani Keeda is a Mumbai slang which can be described as a hardened habit of doing things that are not very productive. It can also be understood as the diluted version of Urdu word 'fitoor'. There are people who listen to their hearts and do things which others think as absolute waste of time. Those people are said to be bitten by Sulemani Keeda (bug).

Director Amit Masurkar's film Sulemani Keeda is about two such people Dulal (Naveen Kasturia) and Mainak (Mayank Tewari) who want to be 'top class' screenplay writers in Bollywood. Trouble is, no one producer is ready to buy their scripts. Mainak-Dulal, on the lines of Salim-Javed, want to tell new stories which are apparently intellectual and full of novelty.

One fine day, they get hold of a producer's son Gonzo Kapoor (Karan Mirchandani), who wants to make something new, a film without any story, you know the way Andrei Tarkovsky used to think. His father Sweety Kapoor (Razzak Khan) is a street smart guy who knows the industry and thus he persuades the writers to come up with something 'marketable'.

Meanwhile, Dulal meets a girl Ruma (Aditi Vasudev) who inspires him to do something meaningful in life, but all these things are happening simultaneously and at a very fast pace. Will the two writers be able to keep their sanity intact in such a scenario? What will happen to their long-cherished dream of making it big in Bollywood?

Sulemani Keeda is about normal people and their aspirations. Dulal reads a lot and appears to be a sensible guy on the outset, but somewhere in his heart, he is craving for a partner who could inspire him for a 'meaningful' life.

Mainak, on the other hand, is not into reading as he believes that writing has nothing much to do with reading. He seems like a pile-on at the first glance but very soon you realise that he doesn't want to be a screenwriter to bring any new narrative into focus, he is probably blinded by the glamour attached to the Hindi film in industry.

Like a lot of other strugglers in Mumbai, he is always looking for the opportunities to get laid. His language is full of expletives but that presents him as a radical thinker to some people, and most importantly to himself.