Trailer Was Terrible, But The Film Turned Out To Be Just Fine
2.5 stars
Hai Hai Yeh Trailer...
When we watched the trailer in the movie theater, there was puzzlement all around. Why is a seemingly grown-up person doing such strange things (climbs gates, wears a bizarre wig, ride a scooter into a shop) and is this a Bollywood film? With comedic sounds making the whole experience rather dumb.
Turns Out, It's A Short Film
Bulbul is on YouTube. Chanced upon it when bingewatching short films to get over the ghastly offering by Bollywood this week.
Not bad.
No dialog!
A silly light bulb flashes above my head. That's why the comedy sound track. Before I facepalm and go on to the next film, the luminescent heroine stops me. I watch.
Obsessed With A Lad
She likes him. And she's going to do some really foolish things to get him. I sigh and remember the first time I had a crush and he left an orange ice cream stick in my office desk drawer. The whole office sniggered as the sweet gooey, sticky orange colored liquid created a gigantic stain on my new white levis.
I'm not confessing to the dumb things I did for love.
I turn the sound down a notch because the comic sounds are grating on my nerves.
The heroine has very, very expressive eyes. And she does the pregnant act rather well. Heck, she even yawns prettily. The lad though is in love with someone else.
The Climax Is 'Dil Ko Chhoo Lene Wala'
Time sort of stopped for me when I watched Bulbul realise that hero cannot be hers. It is perhaps the most romantic scene I have seen all this year in cinema.
I swallow a lump in my throat. Art has indeed imitated life.
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