In the movie, Alfaaz suffers in abundance for a guilty secret that he harbours from his teens. Onir shoots his love stories in the pitiless heartland where he succeeds in ferreting out a bedrock of compassion while his protagonists, melancholic but smiling misfits of the metropolis, struggle with their isolation and suffering. There is a lot of 'ping' in the pain of mutually shared hurt between the pair as they exchange messages on the phone that they find very entertaining. In "Kuch Bheege Alfaaz", the traditional tearfulness associated with the emotions of hurt, pain, betrayal, isolation and guilt are alchemized into a warm-hearted, frothy-but-never-frivolous look at how craggily man-woman relationships pan out in the city. The love that grows between two wounded people trapped in the numbing bustle of the metropolis, Kolkata (it was Delhi in Onir's previous film "Shab") - is not uncharted territory in the cinema of emotional diaspora that Onir has constantly explored in "Life in a. In his latest directorial venture, the prolific and insightful director Onir probes wounds that never heal. Film: "Kuch Bheege Alfaaz" Director: Onir Cast: Zain Khan Durrani, Geetanjali Thapa Rating: ***1/2
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