My Wife's Murder

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My Wife's Murder

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Credits
Producer/s:	Ram Gopal Varma, Anil Kapoor
Director:	Jijy Philip
Cast:	Anil Kapoor, Nandana Sen, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy

Only a ten-year-old could have conceived this film. And probably it was made keeping that age group in mind. Of course, there's nothing wrong with the look of the film or the performances but the concept is silly. It's not because it's something new to Bollywood but it ends in a silly fashion. All's well that ends well type, that just doesn't jell with the rest of the film.

Ravi Patwardhan (Anil Kapoor) is a middle class man who seems to be a video editor. The editing machine and the tapes tell us so. Someone truly said that a man who is unhappily married can never ever be really happy, particularly when he has a nagging wife. Matters become worse when she's a housewife. At least, there could have been scope for an extra-marital affair if she had been a working woman!

So the unhappy husband spends a lot of time in the editing studio with his dutiful assistant, Reena (Nandana Sen). This gets his wife, Sheela (Suchitra Krishnamoorthy), very suspicious and she accuses him of having an affair with her. Things go out of hand one day, when she nags him endlessly and pushes him too far. He raises his hand on her. She slaps him back and he pushes her. Her head hits the wooden carving of the bed and she dies on the spot. So far it feels like an amateur school play. This scene particularly, looks very amateurish.

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