REVIEW: Teree Sang

Both kids and adults should avoid this 'kidult' love story

You may think that when actors like Anupam Kher, Rajat Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Neena Gupta and Sushmita Mukherjee come together, the film has GOT to be good. Think again! Teree Sang is a social message which should have remained just that – a message and not have transformed itself into hell-of-a pathetic film.

It's really not that tough to guess what the film is all about. From the promos, you might have gathered, the film is all about under-age pregnancy. But unlike Juno (a film with the same social message), this film falters in almost every scene. Starting from the one night that well, entails the rest of the film to the parents' reaction to the kids trying to brave hardships to have their baby, everything is extremely superficial and unconvincing.

What happened to Satish Kaushik? Why did he come up with a film with un-required humour, silly jokes scattered a bit too generously and an inane stream of sequences will forever remain a mystery.

And hey, these are not the only things that go wrong in the film. A film that could very well pass for an extended condom ad (We wondered why Nirodh had not sponsored it) was edited in a way that would put even sixth graders to shame. The worst happened of course when Neena Gupta had to shut up in mid-sentence (probably because even the makers realised the inanity of it all) and the film was hurriedly moved on to another scene.

Also the music. God the music! If you could only hear the Delhi Rap that comes within the initial half hour of the film you will know what I mean. Hearing it I felt sorry and my heart cried for every single self-respecting Delhiwallah.

Coming to the hero and the heroine of the film, Ruslaan Mumtaz is cute. Sheena Shahabadi is also ok. We do not write bad things about little kids. It might break their hearts.

VERDICT: Adults may talk to their kids about safe sex, condoms and being responsible and all of that at home. Kids just pay attention in your sex education classes. To learn all of the above, you do not have to punish yourselves with Teree Sang.

RATING: 1/5 (For the thought)