REVIEW: Hulla, much ado about nothing

Hulla is a film made almost entirely for the multiplex audiences. It was an inevitable considering the stupendous success of Bheja Fry last year. While many people had issues with Bheja Fry because it was a remake of Dinner Games, I for one, felt the film was one of Bollywood's successful adaptations. The film woven around a simple idea kept the viewer engaged. Yet I kept my mind neutral enough because it's unfair to judge any director on the basis of a film made by the same production house one-and-a-half year ago.

When the film begins you are convinced that the director Jaideep Varma has a winner on his hands. And yet 30-minutes into the film I found myself yawning away.

Hulla deals with an issue that almost all of us (especially those living in cities) have had to bang our heads against the wall. A co-operative society tends to function like a mini fiefdom and the rules are often Draconian. The office bearers are an arrogant, tough autocratic lot of people. Dealing with them needs large amount of patience and humour. And it is this trivial part of life, which tends to take over our existence completely that director Jaideep Varma has tried to dwell on. Unfortunately, the humour has been handled in a clumsy, slipshod fashion.

Janardan (Rajat Kapoor) is the newly appointed secretary of his society. He's a small-time businessman struggling to make two ends meet and educate his son. As somebody who's always at the receiving end of tirades from his clients, constant harassment from his wife, he desperately seeks to reaffirm his position of power. And so he takes his role a secretary extremely seriously.

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