Link: ibibo blogs – Mumbai Salsa – GOA BLOG.

Cast: Vir Das, Indraneil Sengupta, Ray Irani, Dilip Thadeshwar, Manjari Fadnis, Linda Arsenio, Amruta and Neelam Chauhan
Director: Manoj Tyagi
Music: Adnan Sami

For
guys, it’s never so easy getting laid and for you women getting
marriage proposals is like buying ice from an Eskimo. At least that’s
what Manoj Tyagi’s Mumbai Salsa suggests.

Mumbai Salsa journeys
the lives of four men and women. The eight hang out in a night club
called Mumbai Salsa and that is where two lost-in-love people Rajeev
(Vir Das) and Maya meet (Manjari Fadnis). After a drunken one night
stand, the two decide to date. But what happens when Rajeev gets a job
in Singapore? The stories of their friends too are based on
relationships. While one has a commitment problem, the other yearns to
be loved. While one is completely traditional in thought of marriage
the other is married.  

Quite a bit of the screenplay is lifted from various episodes of the American Sitcom Friends which
is clearly an influence from the writer’s point of view. In fact even
the plot line can be easily fitted into the ten seasons of friends.

One
good thing about the film is that it doesn’t drag. However, some of the
double meaning jokes do not even generate a smirk on your face. The
word khufia and khufiapanti which obviously suggests a Hindi foul word has been used to the maximum and gets really boring.

Vir
Das and Manjari Fadnis are the ones who stand out from the lot as
theirs is the central story. These two are definitely people to watch
out for. Linda Arsenio after Kabul Express comes up with another fine
performance. The rest of the cast is strictly all right.

We
have been there, seen that. Multiple stories with relationship problems
are getting old especially when there is nothing new to offer. It was
digestible in Jhankaar Beats, Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., Salaam-e-Ishq, Metro but the audience has witnessed this long enough.

But
one thing is for sure… Immediately when I see Vikram Bhatt’s name as
the presenter I expect this to be one bad movie but Manoj Tyagi is
definitely more competent than Vikram Bhatt. Mumbai Salsa is without doubt better than Vikram Bhatt’s Speed which released last week. (Am I taking out my angst on Vikram because of what I was made to watch last week?)

The director has written films like Page 3, Apaharan, Corporate ,
etc. but one wishes that he had chosen a fresh theme like the ones in
these films for his directorial debut. The seen to death story lets you
down but the way in which the sequences are handled is fine.