‘Mithya’ 2008 - Refreshingly different
‘Mithya 2008′ - Refreshingly different
By Nikhil Kumar
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. The protagonist of Rajat Kapoor’s film ‘Mithya’ finds this out in a somewhat bittersweet and tragic way.
The film, starring Ranvir Shorey as an ordinary guy stuck in an ever-swirling twister of extraordinary situations, is unpredictable and refreshingly different to its core.
Indiscernibly and cleverly laced with moments of light humour, the plot of ‘Mithya’ straddles across different genres (comedy to thriller to mysterious farce) with incredible aplomb. And a lion’s share of credit for this goes to the director Rajat Kapoor and the film’s leading man and its main driving force – Ranvir Shorey.
VK (Ranvir Shorey) is a perpetually struggling actor doing small and forgettable roles in films. His humdrum life is turned turtle after he is abducted by a bunch of gangsters, headed by Gawde ( Naseeruddin Shah ). Gawde and his men want to supplant VK in the position of a rival don whom VK resembles.