Daijiworld Media Network - Entertainment

Mumbai, Aug 29: Kunal Kapoor, Radhika Apte, Gulshan Grover and Saurabh Shukla come together in this satire on the power struggle between two villages that have both almost entirely no water whatsoever.

Directed by Nila Madhab Panda the movie is a satire on the society, and shows how the power equation of two villages shifts when water, the most important resource for survival vanishes. The movie is almost two hours long and does have a unique story line as well as an engaging narrative. Set in the mid 1980's, a village by the name of Upari that is located in Odisha, beside its neighbour Bairi, faces acute water scarcity. The king of Upari, King Barj Singh Deo is an incorrigible cast oriented man and is in favour of the rampant cast discriminations and honour killings that take place in his land.

Soon the lack of water turns into a bigger problem than anticipated and many of the poor whom the king throws out, take shelter in Bairi which incidentally does not share the debilitating problem. Barj Singh tells his son (Kunal Kapoor) to woo the daughter of Kharu (Gulshan Grover) who is the political leader of Bairi.

Kings who are more about the facade of kingship than actually having the money or the public support to show for it and a love story that isn't water tight. Some funny dialogues are interspersed in the narrative and Saurabh Shukla as well as Gulshan Grover do a fine job but fail to shoulder a movie that has its second half already drowning in mediocrity.