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Kaagaz Ke Fools

Story line: The protagonist of the curiously titled 'Kaagaz Ke Fools' is the ironically named writer Purushottam Tripathi. His name may mean "the greatest man" but he's actually anything but that. The film, at first, appears to be about the struggle of an artist - his friends and even his wife urge him to write popular, commercially viable stuff whereas he's more concerned about his artistic integrity. The film shoots itself in the foot at the very outset by presenting the hackneyed, narrow view about art: the "socially relevant" stuff which only a few intellectuals read or the spicy pulp which caters to the lowest common denominator. The film's stance on art is hugely problematic to begin with - it clearly argues that the social message-driven stuff is by default more virtuous than "entertainers", portraying people working in the latter mode as some sort of decadent villains possessing all the bad qualities a human being can possess - but what jars even more is just how clueless and meandering the film is. It almost runs on auto-pilot mode, starting off as a loud Punjabi comedy, which then transforms into a tedious drama (as in the Guru Dutt classic, the protagonist here is struck between two women - one who keeps nagging and one who accepts him for who he is) and culminates with a corny lecture about "Lakshmi" and "Saraswati". The drama is so haphazardly built that there's absolutely nothing in it to make us care. For a film that takes a condescending, self-important stance about art, it's ironic how artless and lifeless 'Kaagaz Ke Fools' is. It's an utter waste of an interesting cast - Vinay Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Rajender Sethi and the lovely Mugdha Godse are wasted in thankless parts. There's something especially weird about Godse's dialogue delivery - I'm not sure if it's the strained Punjabi accent or something else, but I almost ended up wishing for subtitles - that's how indecipherable her dialogues are. That basically goes for pretty much everything in the film. It's so dull, hollow and shabby, I wonder why they even bothered to make this film. 'Kaagaz Ke Phool' was an exquisitely crafted melodrama, a film that showed how sentimentality can be elegant too. 'Kaagaz Ke Fools' is, well - I'm not a fan of puns but this feels just about right - extremely foolish.