Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001) Reviews

• On a Whole New Philosophical Level

  chintan-22004-07-13

  This movie might be a little hard to grasp for some people, but one thing is for certain - This movie is on a whole new philosophical level. It, more than effectively, presents how much of the life the upper class urban India lives is a make up, a farce. Behind the huge cars and the high spending life-styles of the few haves in rich urban India lies a story untold - a story of many problems, unique to this strata of the Indian Society. The movie's backdrop shows a young Xen witnessing his parents death in absolute silence to a freak accident in a recording studio. Since that day, Xen's life plunges into silence. He watches the TV muted and his windows are always shut. But he has a substantial gift - He can read the minds of people. OK most people. He just cannot get thru to the mind of one girl whom he eventually falls in love with. He helps out everyone who he determines to be in serious problems (Most of whom are his clients). Xen is completely taken by Nikita because she is the only one who seems to not have a farcical make up to her personality. In an interesting twist, he discovers that she has an incestuous father played by Boman Irani and murders him. This movie forces you to think, and to me that's what a really hard hitting movie should do. Kudos to the whole gang and to Rahul Bose for churning out a truly hard-hitting movie.

• Please cast away any prejudgements before u watch this one

  tinygoblin2006-01-21

  A fantastically dramatic directorial debut by Rahul Bose.What can I say? I loved the movie an its characters! quite extreme? of course, and quite rightly so .Bose's depiction of the wonderfully complicated lives of today's Mumbaiites who are brought together in the central theme of the movie.With a touch of Marquez's magical realism, the movie revolves around the need for self preservation through a pretence of normality.The characters want their chaotic lives buried away from the public eye as they continue to pretend that everything IS fine. Perversely enough, curiosity always gets the better of the public eye as they poke and prod and dig beneath the ground for treasures of guarded secrets. But do we really want to know the truth? For this flick the Indian audience need to fasten their seat-belts, for truth is bizarre, complex and utterly saddening. All in all a brave attempt and thoroughly enjoyable! An appeal to the Indian audience:

• Everyone is right

  neptunespice2003-06-06

  A really interesting way to present what could have been an incredibly cheesy plot. It had its non-sequitor moments, but it was otherwise very well done. Recommended if you're looking for something other than the traditional Hollywood Summer blockbuster.

• About a barber who hears others' thoughts.

  imageon2002-07-30

  About a barber who can hear the flow of thinking of the person to whom he is giving a haircut. He helps them(his customers) courteously but somehow directly by the information unknowingly given by themselves. He meets a girl and gets intimate with her, only to find that she has been abused by her successful father whom himself is also the barber's customer.

• More than I anticipated

  maciek-in-LA2003-05-24

  An excellent film...funny, charming, wry, yet also gritty and compelling. Nikita (Koel Purie) has a cathartic scene reminiscent of Liv Ullman in Bergman's "Face to Face." She submerges herself in a fugue state unflinchingly. The climactic turn of events lift the film to a more profound conclusion than the first half augured.