Movie 'Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon' Review

Movie 'Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon' Review: Dunno what the heck in the name of cinema were the director Sanjay Sharma and writer Kapil Sharma trying to achieve in Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon. Were they trying to be bold and shock all the prude souls out there with their no-holds-barred depiction of everything related to sex, infidelity and homosexuality? Or were they aiming to make a statement about a dysfunctional family where the mom sleeps around with her boss and the young son is itching for an affair with his brother’s wife. The brother, meanwhile, finds sexual gratification with a male prostitute.

'Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon' Review

It’s all a hodgepodge of the most unpalatable kind. And the only message that comes across for the poor viewer is that there are utterly talentless writers and directors out there who still have a sway over gullible producers.

Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyon is populated with queer and quirky characters. Ashley (Yuvraaj Parashar) is married to Jenny (Rituparna Sengupta) but is a closet gay having an affair with Aryan (writer Kapil Sharma plonks himself smack dab in the middle of the mess). Ashley’s brother Sam (Maradona Rebello of the Pankh debacle) has his eye set on sis-in-law Jenny. Meanwhile, Ashley and Sam’s mom Rebecca (Zeenat Aman) is a single mother who is sleeping around with rich folks to make ends meet. Her husband (Kabir Bedi) abandoned them and went on his quest for the elusive enlightenment but came back with the cancer.

The story mostly keeps flitting between these characters but director Sanjay Sharma focuses more on the homosexual angle in the latter half without actually being able to tell anything of substance. Dunno Y is in English language and the writing is of the most pedestrian quality. Worse still, the actors (with no exception) mouth the English dialogues with such awkwardness and phoney accent that one feels they should be packed off for a speech and diction crash course pronto.

Not just in character sketches, there are jerks aplenty in editing as well. Performances are of the kind that gives a new definition to the word acting itself. Even the otherwise right-minded actors like Zeenat Aman and Rituparna Sengupta ham like their life depended on it.

All in all, Dunno Y is a disaster of a film. Period.