25. Youn Hotaa Toh Kyaa Hotaa
(What if...)
Four different lives, independent and unknown to each other are linked by one event. The Sept 11 2001 WTC incident. This is the crux of the movie Youn Hotaa Toh Kyaa Hotaa.
Tillotama (Konkana Sensharma) marries Hemant (Jimmy Shergill) just a day ago he is supposed to leave to US to join his new job and then she is waiting for the visa papers so that she could join her husband. But her mother-in-law acts a typical anti-bahu woman and ensures the distance between Tillotama and Hemant.
Nitin (Sameer Sheikh) is forcing his poor but brilliant and studious friend Rahul (Ankur Khanna) who is MBBS to come to US and change his life. But he is stuck to duty towards his father who is fatally ill because of some severe neural disease.
Rajubhai Patel (Paresh Rawal) runs business of sending off Indians to US under pretext of running Gujrati folks shows in US. He comes across task of sending off his long lost poor love (Ratna Shah) Tara's daughter to US. But Tara whose husband is drunkard and poor does not have enough money to pay Rajubhai's regular fees of 12lakhs to send her daughter Payal (Shahana Goswami) to the US.
Salim Rajab-ali (Irfaan) who is a share broker has filed for green card to settle into US. Only thing that stops him from going to US now is his love Namrata (Suhasini Mulay) who is theatre dancer.
America - the land of opportunities, the wealthy country, the country of immigrants, the land of attractions of a lot of aspirant. The four lives are waiting to reach their destiny, only if they can overcome their obstacles.
A quick series of events give these people a chance to break free.
Tillotama files for a tourist visa - to reach to US as a single woman. Fortunately, the visa inspector she faces is understanding and she gets her visa.
Rahul who was bound to his father, gets a chance as his father expires and his brilliant academic career ensures a easy student visa. And of course her rich girlfriend Khushboo (Ayesha Takia) finances his initial expenses.
Rajubhai out of love with Tara agrees to take Payal to US; and fortunately, Payal is talented enough to convince the visa inspectors to grant her a visa too.
Salim finds that Namrata is cheating on him with her co-dancers and an incident with one of his clients forces him to flee to US immediately. He lands up in NY.
Then comes the ill-fated day when the NY skyline changed and around 2700 lives were lost in the tragic event.
While Rajubhai, Payal, Nitin and Tillotama are waiting in Boston to catch the AA flight to LA (which was hijacked and used as the weapon for destroying one of the WTC), Salim is waiting on 95th floor of WTC to meet his brother Javed (Karran Khanna) and a business contact. All these were to meet at the same spot - 95th floor of the WTC at nearly 9am on 11th Sept 2001. Least did they know that this would be the last day of their lives.
The movie moves fast quite nicely and the story too is build quite strong to not to let the audience guess what is the fate of these people until the last hour. The movie is not filled with songs like other bollywood flick, except of a title song sung by Kunal Ganjawala. Also the shuffling of story from character to character does not make one realise that the movie is filled up with a lot of characters.
Probably the little soothing/consoling part of the movie is that Tillotama misses the flight after losing her boarding pass for the flight and does manage to join her husband in LA avoiding being the part of the tragedy. However the other four (and many others at the disaster site) were not so lucky. Had it not been for this twist in the story, probably the movie would have been named, Youn naa hotaa toh kyaa hotaa. (What if this wouldnt have happened). And it was good to see a couple of veteran actors on the big screen - Ravi Baswani ("Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron" fame) and Ratna Pathak (also "Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron" fame); though their roles were not very big, their presence was definitely felt.
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