Noor shifts original novel from Karachi to Mumbai
Mumbai March 8 (IANS) From Babe Bindaas to Citizen Keen thats the journey actress Sonakshi Sinha undertakes in director Sunhil Sippys Noor. The engaging trailer encapsulates the protagonists voyage from fun-seeking journalist to conscientious citizen with a fun grip over the graph which rises and dips in disarming motions.
I felt a tickle in my belly watching the trailer if not a surge in my veins.
If you ve read the novel Karachi You re Killing Me! you d know that the book s whimsical scribe is a Karachi girl. Well sorry we can have none of that in Bollywood. Not for now anyway. Sonakshi Sinha is a full-blown Mumbai girl and she even gets to taunt the original novel in the trailer by exclaiming ‘Mumbai you re killing me .
The narrative adopts the tone of social awakening in much the same way as Subhash Kapoor s Jolly LLB 2. Like Akshay Kumar s chichora lawyer act in Kapoor s film Sonakshi s Noor is a professional who before too long will be served up lessons in professional scrupulosity as she gets into a situation that demands all her inner strength and conviction to come out in the open.
Sonakshi who played the hero last year in the bone-crunching gruesome tale of horrific revenge Akira is here given a lighter tone to play around with. She flirts with the fluff-and-real blocks in the Rubik s Cube of life with fey abandon.
The film s trailer has an infectious charm to it. It also has some interesting acting talent. The redoubtable Manish Choudhary as the goofy journo-heroine s boss somehow seemed like a gruff more poised version of Annu Kapoor in Mr.India. I also caught a glimpse of Purab Kohli as Noor s love interest and stand-up comedian Kanan Gill as her best friend.
Manish Choudhary orders Sonakshi to go interview ‘Sunny Leon(sic.) I guess the ‘e is just about the only thing that s silent in the bustling trailer that promises an engaging film about a zany journalist who could have been in Karachi if only Mumbai was not the politically correct place to be.
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