Vidya Balan is back winning our hearts as Sulu in her RJ avatar. Her RJ Avatar continues to mesmerize from “Good Morrrrrrrrrrning Mumbai!!!!” in Munnabhai MBBS to seductive nightingale “Helloooooo” in Tumhari Sulu. A power pack performance is in place, she not only knows what to play, she knows how to play it too. This is where she shines and makes Sulu Humari Sulu.
Suresh Triveni – The Director keeps it utter simple, honest and real. He succeeds to portray Sulu as a charming housewife making you peep somewhere in the house we all live or lived once, helping us connect with Sulu instantly. The nuances she brings online with her sheer performance showcases the talent house Vidya is, awaiting best scripts come her way and she is out there making it shine.
Manav Kaul is an amazing performer and succeeds to charm as Ashok. He plays all his shades brilliantly, he is confident, naïve, sensitive, understandable, witty, angry and succeeds to even shake his booty. Although, he plays an ordinary husband, yet he shines extraordinarily in the film.
Sulu plays a housewife who is a 12th grade fail and is continuously nibbled by her family on her shortcomings. Yet, Sulu is happy in her world, undisturbed and real, who seeks to win the day to day challenges and is up for a big win. Her big win indeed is her confidence that states “Main kar sakti” for everything that comes her way. Winning the pressure cooker in one of the contests thrown by a local radio channel VOW headed by Maria. She doesn’t let the opportunity loose even by a day to be a RJ. She auditions right there at that very moment and showcases her capability.
The song Farrata showcases the challenges and depicts being a housewife too is not less than a sport. The director captures it rightly and showcases the vibe of Sulu or any housewife for that matter just brilliantly in this song. Hawa Hawai comes in a split yet a great watch. Raffu captures the emotion right. “Banja meri Rani” is the best song of the film no doubt bringing a smile on your face instantly.
Neha Dhupia’s character Maria is well written too, in a little to do role, Neha impresses with her screen presence and comes a great delight to watch.
RJ Malishka plays Albeli Anjali and she is her skin of the character what she is best at, wanting you more of her. It is Vijay Maurya at vow who plays Pankaj that is mean and pain in the ass, but a character well defined and fun to watch.
The writing is crisp and first half is brilliant. Post interval the film becomes a film inching towards the regular predictive every film stuff. However, it is Vidya Balan and Manav Kaul who make this worth a dekko and a fun ride. Vidya Balan brings the house down with her sheer performance and becomes Humari Sulu.
Tumhari Sulu surely deserves 3.5 stars.