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Synopsis
‘Mumbai Matinee’ is the story of a 32-year-old man who is desperate to lose his virginity.
Debashish – Debu Chatterjee (Rahul Bose) works in an advertising agency. Although a good-looking man with a suave demeanor, Debu has
never had sex in his life. And now his sexual cravings and desires have begun to affect his normal life.
Desperate to find some solution to his problem, the gullible Debu comes in contact with a man named Baba Hindustani who gives him a
bottle of strange colored pills, telling him his problem cured in a week's time.
During one of his visits to Baba, Debu also meets a filmmaker named Nitin Kapoor and the two become friends. On Baba's advice, Kapoor
shoots Debu doing some physical exercises. Then he uses the same visuals in his film as a man performing sexual intercourse.
On the other hand, Debu still has not been able to lose his virginity and neither has his sexual impulses ceased by Baba’s pills.
Around this time Kapoor's film releases and becomes a huge success. Ironically, Debu who is still a virgin now becomes a 'Sex Star' in
the eyes of the public.
This is where a girl comes into Debu’s life. Journalist Sonali Verma (Perizaad) wants to interview him. But distressed Debu refuses to
entertain her. Later, she bails him out of jail when he is arrested and even gives him shelter when he gets thrown out of his own
house.
Time passes and Debu begins to see a good companion in Sonali. Eventually, the two fall in love.
Debu had set out seeking sex but ended up finding love.
Review
Pritish Nandy Communications' Mumbai Matinee is based on a novel storyline that has never been attempted on Indian screen
before. Moreover, the story is not over-fictitious as there do exist such characters in real life too.
Sex, often seen as a taboo by orthodox minds, is what the movie is all about. However, there is no skin exposure as the subject is
treated with a very realistic approach. Sex is the need of biology and who can defy nature. Such is also the case with the movie’s
protagonist who is looking for some way to put an end to his virginity of 32-years.
The movie has an ensemble of interesting characters like the charlatan Baba who promises to end Debu’s virginal problem once and for
all, Baba's urbane secretary (Asrani) and Debu's best pal and colleague (Kaabir), who has a fetish for female legs.
Then there is a failed and distinctly Punjabi film producer (Saurabh Shukla) with his humorous one-liners.
Film’s director Anant Balani has handled the light sequences with aplomb.
In the second half of the movie, the focus shifts to the love story between the protagonist and the journalist. This is where the pace
of the movie begins to slacken.
Rahul Bose delivers a commendable performance as a man torn between his desires and his helplessness. Perizaad only gets a marginal
role in the movie while character actors, Vijay Raaz and Saurabh Shukla make the first half