REVIEW: Karma Aur Holi is torture

Known for taking the 'road less travelled by', Sushmita Sen has managed to sustain audience interest despite not having a single hit worth mentioning in a while now.

With an offbeat star cast and an experimental look, Karma Aur Holi seemed exactly the kind of film that you'd expect Sush to take up.

For some reason though in this case Sushmita's choice appears to have gone way off the mark.

Karma Aur Holi (dubbed in Hindi from the English original) is a story of a young couple Meera (Sen) and Dev (Randeep Hooda) who seem to have a perfect life. Dev is a hotshot publisher while Meera juggles between being a financial consultant and a yoga teacher.

Behind the façade of perfection though is a sense of boredom. Both are desperate for a child but Meera for some reason cannot conceive. Dev meanwhile is struggling to keep his business afloat.

Partly to fill the void in their palatial home and perhaps to cherish the sense of belonging, they invite their friends and family over to celebrate Holi.

So we are introduced to Javed a struggling filmmaker who enjoys a relationship of convenience with an actress called Jenny (Naomi Campbell).

Vani (Rati Agnihotri), Meera's sister is an obsessive mother who frets over her 17-year-old son Vikram and every other thing happening around her. All efforts by her husband Shekhar (Suresh Oberoi) to convince her that all is okay with the world meet deaf ears.

Then there is one Dr Nimish, a chauvinist who won't miss an opportunity to show his wife Sujata (Suchitra Krishnamoorti) down and pat the sexy bare back of his sister-in-law (Deepal Shaw).

Megan (Drena De Niro) is a tarot card reader and a close friend of Meera while Gitanjali is Dev's business associate.

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