Let's
play a mind game. What was Sushmita Sen thinking when she decided to
work in this tableau of titillating possibilities on man-woman
relationships all gone to utter and irrevevocable waste?

Indian diaspora have been churned out by makers in the West. Meera (Sushmita Sen) & Dev (Randeep Hooda) play a couple living in New York. After a few years of marriage and togetherness,

Javed's girl friend, an aspiring actor. Vani (Rati Agnihotri), Meera's elder sister, who has a son Vikram (Chandan), a teenager, who is unlike his peers, thanks to his over protective mother. And Shekhar (Suresh Oberoi), Vani's husband, who has almost no ambitions, and consequently, no success. Then there is Sujata (Suchitra Krishnamoorthi), a typical Indian housewife, who is wed to an American born Indian Nimish (Shauvik) - a doctor by profession. Nimish believes excessively in his gender superiority. Preeti (Deepal Shaw) is Sujata's younger sister - A complete party animal, a rich spoilt new age girl.

While the international cast, including Robert de Niro's daughter Drena, remain supremely oblivious of their utility in the plot, Sushmita tries hard to lend some grace and humour to a character hellbent on self-destruction. Another engaging performance comes from Suchitra Krishnamurthy as a repressed wife trying to make herself heard above her husband's bullying.

Randeep Hooda carries his American accent and demeanour with a flair that scoffs at the film's cheerless efforts to portray the Indian diaspora as a chamber piece done on a pitchless offkey scale.