Simply Perfect

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The sad subject of this offering is a film engineer, a henpecked father of two whose paranoid shrew of a wife accuses him unremittingly of sleeping with his younger, attractive assistant. There is absolutely nothing going on between the two, but after pushing him too far, he strikes her, she falls back, hits her head, and we have one dead wife bleeding on the carpet.What he should do now, but of course doesn't, is summon the emergency services; he might even talk his way out of it, but he decides to dispose of the body, incredibly ineptly for a man who should know better. Having no option but to report her missing, he does so, and her body turns up quickly. At this point the detective on the case should have turned up at his home with a warrant, and that would have been the end of it, but perhaps they do things differently in India. At any rate, the assistant is drawn unwittingly into the plot, then wittingly covers for him. Obviously this can have only one outcome, and it is not a good one, rather amusing though is the way English creeps into the dialogue in many places. Okay, it is the lingua franca of the Universe, but it may be that fifty years from now every living language contains a smattering of it, those that don't already. There is also a cameo breakfast scene in which the detective, taking an ear-bashing from his own nagging wife, realises what has probably happened and is obviously thinking there but for the grace...

This is the best RGV movie since Company, and ranks in quality with Satya, which was a better movie than Company (though Company will always be a favorite of mine). Warning, though. If you get a knot in your stomach when watching suspenseful movies (like I do), you may have a difficult time watching this. Its like walking on glass all the way through. But Anil showed again why he's top rank in Bollywood. I really don't think anyone else could have done this role as well. And the rest of the cast, including Boman Irani and Nandana Sen, gave some of their best performances, too. Even the kids were well-directed. If there were justice in the world, this would be a candidate for a critical award next year.

Just a 2 second flash of Anil's face after his wife slaps him was enough to tell me MWM, at the very least, would feature a stunning performance from Anil Kapoor. And right I was. This is the best male performance of the year. Anil's ability to convey so much through subtle changes of his face and body is like watching beautiful art unfold on the screen. There are moments in the movie where he just falls apart....its really something to watch. Ur heart goes out to his character. And this tremendous performance is further enhanced by the overall product MWM is. Well etched characters, excellent background music, technically slick(RGV production after all) and a screenplay so brilliantly written that there isn't a single boring frame in the entire movie. Every scene builds the tension and gets the viewer engrossed into the characters' lives like few movies have. Director Jijy Philip deserves BIG TIME kudos for perfectly executing this realistic thriller and extracting superb performances from the entire cast(even the cute little KIDS rock). Boman Irani continues to amaze me with his ability to BECOME every character he plays. It's hard not to love this guy. The girl who played Rani's younger sister in Black(don't know her name) is very solid as well....and I especially love how her and Anil's relationship is portrayed throughout.Bottomline, MWM is a must-see. A simple story taken to great heights with an award worthy screenplay and spectacular performances from everybody, especially Anil and Boman.

My Wife's Murder is a fantastic thriller film. All the actors do a great job. My hat goes off to everyone, even the child actors.Anil Kapoor is just amazing as Ravi. He wears his role like a glove. He's very versatile as an actor and it shows. From his glasses to his clothes to his smoking, and especially his mannerisms; everything he does simply breathes more life into Ravi. he breathes life in to Ravi as a moment of anger turns to accidental murder. The look of horror on his face as he sees her lying there. Oh that was fantastic. Everything he does, from cleaning the mess, to hiding the body, it was just like any of us would have done or thought to do. He made the common man come to life on screen.Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is great. She's a damn good dead body, but she really makes the nagging wife stand up properly, rather than be a cardboard two dimensional character.Boman Irani is great. His mannerisms make Tejpal live on screen.The kids were great. Really great. They're not whiny or cutesy or over-smart like a lot of kid stars are. The only annoying thing was when the little girl was crying/wheezing at the end of the film. The boy who plays Karan (also in Parineeta as a young Saifu) was fantastic. Just when his constant questions (why are we running? where are you going? etc) got monotonous, he changes to "No I won't go. You're a liar" It was SO GOOD. :D Ram Gopal Verma makes this a great film. While I would have liked the sound effects (Ka Thump) to be a bit softer, it was great. The suspense was incredible, especially when Karan looks for his cricket bat, and when Ravi has a bad dream (that scared the heck out of me when she pops up out of the water like that).