As
far
as
scrutinizing
a
gay
relationship
is
concerned,
this
ain't
a
patch
on
Ang
Lee's
Brokeback
Mountain.
But
still….It
tries.
Dunno
why,
but
this
fatally
flawed
look
at
the
dark
secrets
of
an
Anglo-Indian
family
where
the
single
mother
sleeps
with
her
cheesy
boss
for
lack
of
choice
and
the
elder
married
son
with
a
child,
makes
out
with
a
man
for
the
want
of
a
voice,
leaves
us
with
some
positive
thoughts.
Dunno
Y…Na
Jaane
Kyun
is
the
first
Hindi
film
to
look
at
a
gay
relationship
with
some
amount
of
dispassionate
honesty.
The
script
makes
room
for
approximately
22-24
characters
which
includes
the
entire
malfunctional
D'Souza
family,
their
friends
and
lovers.
Man,
this
is
Sooraj
Barjatya's
Hum
Saath
Saath
Hain
gone
too
seed!
The
characters
are
not
badly
written.
Even
the
performances
are
at
times,
convincing.
And
it
takes
inhuman
amounts
of
guts
for
two
male
actors
to
make
love
on
screen.
Hats
(and
other
apparel)
off
for
Kapil
Sharma
and
newcomer
Yuvraaj
Parasher
for
strolling
into
alternate
sexuality
with
such
naked
earnestness.
However,
earnestness
per
se
is
not
a
redeeming
quality
unless
compounded
with
creative
conviction.
Dunny
Y
is
high
on
drama,
low
on
treatment
and
execution.
Parts
of
unfolding
trauma
in
the
dysfunctional
family
are
so
strenuously
dramatized
you
wonder
why
director
Sanjay
Sharma
did
not
go
easy
on
the
manipulations
in
the
narration.
Or
why
he
chose
to
have
the
characters
speak
in
English
when
some
of
them(including
the
film's
leading
man
Kapil
Sharma)
are
ill-at-ease
in
the
lingo.
The
dialogues
often
come
out
more
forced
than
forceful,
like
a
bunch
of
over-eager
radio
artistes
performing
a
Christmas
play
with
a
plum-pudding
on
the
table
to
egg
them
on.
The
talented
cast
too
is
unable
to
rise
above
the
mundane-ness
of
the
material.
Zeenat
Aman
as
an
abandoned
wife
and
single
mother
has
the
most
interesting
character
to
play.
She
struggles
hard
to
make
her
lines
sound
believable.
But
she
finally
succumbs
to
pressures
of
pedestrian-ism
that
assail
this
well-meaning
but
aberrant
film
from
all
sides.
While
the
explicit
gay
love-making
sequences
are
done
with
a
bravado
that's
more
corny
than
candid
a
sub-plot
about
the
gay
protagonist's
torrid
affair
with
her
brother-in-law
(Maradona
Rebello)
has
potential.
But
by
the
time
the
Neglected
Wife
and
the
in
house
toy
boy
get
into
a
shower
together
the
passion
and
the
pain
of
a
family
on
the
edge,
have
all
been
washed
away.
Dunno
Y…is
a
brave
and
unorthodox
look
at
a
malfunctional
family's
efforts
to
come
to
terms
with
the
dark
secrets
in
the
closet.
The
courageous
film
looks
at
the
question
of
forbidden
desires.
And
the
sheer
pleasure
of
watching
Zeenat
Aman
and
Helen
is
incentive
enough
to
overlook
the
film's
fatal
flaws.