Sulemani Keeda
- Director
- Amit V. Masurkar
- Studio
- Tulsea Pictures, Mantra/Runaway Entertainment
- Release Date
- 4 December 2014
- Running Time
- 89 min
- Language
- Hindi
- Country
- India
- Budget
- ₹0.35 Cr
- Box Office
- ₹0.33 Cr
Review
What a delightfully tender portrait of artistic ambition and friendship this film is. Dulal and Mainak feel like real people—those countless struggling artists we know who haunt coffee shops and bookstores, clutching their dreams like precious manuscripts. Director Shreyas Bhatnagar captures something deeply authentic about their desperation and humor, the way rejection becomes a badge of honor among friends who refuse to give up. The chemistry between the leads sparkles with genuine camaraderie, and watching these two navigate the cruel indifference of Bollywood's gatekeepers stings because we've all felt that sting of invisibility. The introduction of Gonzo Kapoor injects a wild, unpredictable energy—a character so refreshingly bizarre that he threatens to upset everything the film has carefully built.
Yet this is where the film's promise begins to fray. The romantic subplot with Ruma, while conceptually interesting, feels hurried and underdeveloped, as if Bhatnagar wasn't quite sure whether he was making a buddy comedy or a romance about artistic compromise. By the film's end, the core conflict—Dulal's struggle between commercial success and artistic integrity—deserves a more satisfying resolution than what we're given. The film's bite softens when it matters most, and you sense the director pulling punches rather than fully committing to the uncomfortable truths his story raises. It's a film that understands the heartbreak of unfulfilled dreams but somehow shies away fro
Storyline
So there's this hilarious film about two buddies, Dulal and Mainak, who are basically wannabe screenwriters desperately trying to make it big in Bollywood. They've written this script they're super proud of, but nobody in the industry will even bother looking at it. While they're getting rejected left and right, these guys spend their time hanging around bookstores and poetry readings, awkwardly trying to chat up women—it's pretty funny to watch them fail at that too.
Their luck finally seems to change when they meet Gonzo Kapoor, this eccentric rich kid whose dad is actually a successful film producer. Gonzo is a bit of a character himself—he's into drugs and obsessed with cats—but he decides to hire them to write a movie for his first film as a director. The project sounds wild and artsy, something completely different from typical Bollywood stuff. Things are looking up for these two guys, and it seems like their big break might finally be happening.
But just when everything appears to be falling into place, Dulal's life gets complicated when he falls for Ruma, an incredibly talented photographer. Meeting her makes him start thinking seriously about whether he's really okay with compromising his artistic vision for commercial success. This creates this interesting tension between his dreams and what he's willing to do to achieve them.
