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Cape Karma
India / UK 2007
produced by Brian Brake, Sumit Kumar (executive) for Bollywood Pictures, idream Productions
directed by Pankaj Advani
starring Rahul Dev, Audrie Woodhouse, Gulshan Grover, Tisca Chopra, Rajendra Gupta, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Vineet Sharma, Mahek Khan, Andy Godfrey, Ian Stewart, O'Willa, Naureen Shah, Dilbagh Singh, Rena Gouk, Margaret Douglas, Hasnen Ali, Jackie Hudson, Harriet Radcliffe, Lynne Alxander, Dhruv Mishra, Mohammad Amin Sakshi, Michael Parker, Parar, Scott Mitchel
written by Pankaj Advani, music by Anandan Sivamani
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Manav (Rahul Dev) has a car accident, but fortunately for him, lovely
Maya (Audrie Woodhouse) just happens to pass by, and she picks him up and
takes him to his home where she nurses him back to health. This soon
evolves into a romance which also involves all kind of kinky sex and
roleplay ... but Maya of course is married to wealthy businessman and
horsebreeder Jagmohan Mundhra (Gulshan Grover), and he isn't the type who
lets his wife go with another man just like that. So to demonstrate his
power, he forces Maya to shoot her favourite horse before Manav's very
eyes ... A few days later, Maya calls and implores Manav to pick her up
for the both of them to just run away. Not sure whether he's doing the
right thing, Manav agrees anyways - and when he shows up at the Mundhra
residence, he finds Maya drunk, her bodyguard drugged, and he lets her
talk him into having sex with her in Jagmohan's bed before departing. Of
course Jagmohan shows up, knocks Manav out, later forces him to eat parts
of his (in the meantime) cut up wife, then buries him alive ... But wait
a minute, this might not have actually happened, wasn't it Manav wh found
his own wife (Tisca Chopra) in bed with another man? Wasn't it Manav who
then killed her and cut her up? Didn't he bury his wife's lover alive? And
when he had the accident, wasn't there the cut up body of his wife in his
trunk? To no-one's real surprise, Manav ends up in an asylum - with Maya
being the head nurse ... A visually impressive film, as it
tries (and succeeds) to tell its story not so much in a matter-of-factly
way but via associative images that often border the surreal or at least
bizarre. So besides all the sex and violence depicted above, the movie
also features mimes, doors in the middle of nowhere, and all kinds of
weird characters - without ever becoming silly as everything ties in
neatly with the main story. Storywise though, the film could actually
have been better: Basically, the whole thing seems just a bit too
constructed to totally work, especially towards the end when it tries to
tie up all loose ends. On top of that ... well, the story just isn't too
original. Still, well worth a look!!!
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