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Director Sanjay Sharma’s Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun deals with homosexuality and heterosexual complex relationships. The film has done extremely well at film festivals all over the world but I wonder how the Indian audience will react to a film about a subject that is still taboo.

The film is set in the house of an Anglo-Indian family which believes in praying together and eating together. Rebecca (Zeenat Aman), whose husband Peter (Kabir Bedi) has abandoned her, runs her family of three children and a nagging mother-in-law (Helen) who is called the “monster of the house”.
Elder son Ashley (Yuvraaj Parashar) works in an MNC and is married to Jenny (Rituparna Sengupta). Rebecca’s pretty daughter Linda (Hazel) and son Sam (Maradona Rebello) are studying. Rebecca works for a lecherous boss KLD (Vinay Apte) and supplements her income by pleasuring old men (like Viveck Vaswani). She has a nosy neighbour (Mahbanoo Mody Kotwal) whose husband is forever hungry (Parikshit Sahni). Within Rebecca’s house too, the relationships are very complex. Ashley always stays aloof from his romantic wife Jenny. Sam, on the other hand, is in love with his Jenny and pays her a lot of attention. Jenny ignores his advances but ultimately begins a clandestine affair.
Aryan (Kapil Sharma), a wannabe actor by day and hooker by night, meets Ashley one night and they start an affair. Meantime, Rebecca’s husband Peter returns home after 20 years. Will Rebecca accept him back in the family? Will Aryan and Ashley sacrifice their happiness in order to maintain the honour and integrity of Ashley’s family? Will Jenny elope with Sam — all these questions form the crux of the movie.
Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun is sure to make men squirm in their seats. The director exposes the secretive night world of homosexuals in detail. The bubble bath scene between a star (Aryan Vaid) and Aryan, however, could have been avoided. It adds little to the complex relationships, and is nothing but a cheap trick to titilate.
Performances by debutant Kapil Sharma and Yuvraaj Parashar are good. Rituparna is okay. Zeenat and Helen have made sincere efforts but their talents are wasted. Maradona is so-so. Hazel has very little to perform. Music by Nikhil Kamat is hummable. Lata Mangeshkar’s song Pal mein rishte badal jaate hain is hummable but does not help lift the film. On the whole the film will at best make an OK DVD watch.