SIMRAN. Director: Hansal Mehta. Players: Kangana Ranaut, Hiten Kumar, Kishore Shahane, Sohum Shah, Rupinder Nagra, Aneesh Joshi. Music: Sachin-Jigar. Hindi, Gujarati and English with English sub-titles. Theatrical release (T-Series).
Praful Patel (Ranaut)—Praf to her friends, please—has a somewhat unconventional outlook when it comes to her job, living arrangement, vacations, spending money and, as we learn, how to settle her debts. Living in Atlanta and on the market for a new house— more about how to pay for that house in a minute—Praful takes up a friend’s (Joshi) offer to visit Las Vegas on a shopping and a gambling junket. What starts out as an opportunistic funfilled extended weekend in Sin City turns into something quite different. In Simran, however, force-fitting the American dream into pretty much absurd, anachronistic choices—while it sounds promising—falls short in the delivery.
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