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Film Review: Via Darjeeling

FATEMA H KAGALWALA

Film: Via Darjeeling

Director: Arindam Nandy

Producers: Joy Ganguly

Banner: Moxie Entertainments P Ltd

Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Parvin Dabbas, Prashant Narayanan, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul, Sonali Kulkarni, Vinay Pathak

Rating: 2/5

Mumbai: The two worlds that Via Darjeeling juggles are uninspiring. While the mystery of the loving couple on their honeymoon is alarmingly under-wrought, the living room discussion, the mystery spins off, is unnecessarily over-wrought. While the earlier refuses to spark interest because of the failure of the characters to woo us in, the latter fails because having wooed us, it takes us nowhere.

The two worlds are disparate but none that cannot meet though. One is the world of these friends, who over a get-together hear a story from a police officer about a particular case he investigated a few years back and which went nowhere. The second world is that of the couple that ultimately becomes a puppet in the scheme of imagination of the friends as they weave fact with fiction.

The film charts a brave territory. It brings in a

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