sona spa
' sona spa' gives you your sleep but in return take away your dreams .
rucha and ritu aren’t sex workers, they’re sleep workers, under the employment of sona spa .
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there’s indira ma’am, who runs shop at sona spa, and her mentally challenged younger brother sachin who loves ice cream and cake .
here’s the deal: you can pay sona spa for their services, only ritu and rucha won’t sleep with you. they’ll sleep for you .
conclusion: the only way to enjoy sona spa is to fall asleep while watching it and dreaming for a better movie yourself. try it .
sona spa takes his usual pop - psychological sermonizing and sends it flying into another dimension. wobbling precariously between half - baked magic realism, implausible science fiction and madhur bhandarkar - esque ‘realistic’ (read: sleazy) filmmaking, sona spa makes for one confused piece of work, leaving one’s cinematic sensibilities feeling similarly .
baba dayanand (naseerddin shah) runs the sona spa. he says - it is necessary to commit crimes in your sleep or else you will commit them when awake .
in his short cameo, naseeruddin shah plays an occultist baba, the man behind the concept of sona spa, who very conveniently lives in seattle because ‘ vaha bahut zyaada sleep ki problem hai’ .
naseeruddin shah’s appearance is limited to that television - plug cameo as baba dayanand, and a piercing visage that looks down on the sleeping girls from the walls of sona spa. courtesy: ibn live
objections to this 'inception' are many but let' s not talk about that. . its more interesting to figure out the missed opportunity by makrand to turn on sona spa as an adult erotic entertainer .
this world is full of fame, glamour and money but it lacks sleep. at sona spa you can buy your sleep! anytime, day or night. here, girls sleep for you, they are called sleep workers .
rucha' s client is choksi, a rich man looking for sleep and ritu' s client is a cop disguised as a head of a company, checking if there is any illegal work going on in' sona spa' .
the world is deprived of sleep. in sona spa you can buy sleep for yourself. here girls (sleep workers) sleep for you, not with you. however they can also inhabit the kingdom of their... see full summary »
the world is deprived of sleep. in sona spa you can buy sleep for yourself. here girls (sleep workers) sleep for you, not with you. however they can also inhabit the kingdom of their clients' dreams. the place gives you sleep but takes away your dreams .
naseeruddin shah’s appearance is limited to that television - plug cameo as baba dayanand, and a piercing visage that looks down on the sleeping girls from the walls of sona spa. there are two other women around: a playfully filmi sex - worker turned sleep - worker who goes by the appropriately m. f. husain - inspired name of meenakshi (nivedita bhattacharya) and the spa’s placid, unbelievably non - avaricious manager, indu (pooja pradhan) .
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sona spa
directed by makrand deshpande. the star cast of the movie are naseeruddin shah, aahana kumra, shurti vyas, pooja pradhan in lead roles. the music given by shailendra barve. the story written by makrand deshpande... .
sona spa' based on a hindi play, written and directed by makrand deshpande, brings the serious issue of lack of sleep due to various reasons that altogether causes unhealthy and tiring life. told through 2 protagonists (sleep workers), rucha (shruti vyas) a billionaire from mumbai and ritu (aahana kumrah), a middle class girl from pune .
instead we are catapulted directly into the strange half - lit world of sona spa, where invariably attractive young women are paid handsomely to sleep ‘on behalf of’ invariably male clients, after having ‘bonded’ with them. that oddly sentimental moniker of ‘bonding’ – which seems to refer to a mystifying process of shoulder - clasping and looking - into - each - other’s - eyes shot as if underwater – turns out to be a lead - up to the film’s real subject: the sleeping subconscious that awakens in our dreams. the girl who has bonded successfully with her client sleeps his sleep – and dreams his dreams. as baba dayanand might put it, the girls at sona spa do not give you access to their bodies – you give them access to your mind .
another surprisingly and strange fact of makrand comes out from sona spa... the dreams don. t look like dreams they are visions. makrand as a filmmaker fails completely in telling us those dreams in cinematic manner. the imagination is completely absent and defying its own concept the sleep workers suddenly get up from their sleep... what are the clients and sleep workers doing when they are not sleeping .
sona spa starts out with a winning premise: the increasingly common urban malaise of lack of sleep — and a strange, rather fantastic solution. “ subah jaagte hi man mein sawaal uthta hai – kya neend poori hui? (as soon as you wake up in the morning, the question arises in your mind – did you get enough sleep ?), ” pronounces the suave baba dayanand. and if the answer is no, what should you do? no, don’t resort to sleeping pills or alcohol, don’t waste your precious time and money, says the baba from his deep blue television screen, eyes boring dangerously into you as he enunciates his ‘s’es as sibilantly as kaa the python did to mowgli the man cub in the jungle book: “aap s - s - sona s - s - spa mein aaiye, jahaan ladkiyan aapke saath nahin, aapke liye soyengi. ”
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shailendra barve’s background score sets the quasi - dreamlike mood nicely, and the effortless luxurious twilight zone of the spa is successfully achieved by nitin chandrakant desai’s production design. director deshpande does a fairly decent job of keeping the film’s many plot lines and characters from getting tangled up. but the film is often choppy and contains several annoyingly self - indulgent sequences – especially the sex - and - violence dreams dreamt by the women for the men. sona spa is hard to applaud but one must give it some credit for a sincere, occasionally thought - provoking speculation on our inner lives. after all, as the marvelous meenakshi says in the film, “jitna saaf, utna maaf. ”
rucha wants to sleep for her billionaire father who doesn' t get sleep and ritu for her sister who is not able to sleep remembering the tragedy in which they lost their mother and brother. rucha and ritu start sleeping on behalf of their clients and in the process live their dreams. rucha' s client is choksi, a rich man looking for sleep and ritu' s client is a cop disguised as a head of a company, checking if there is any illegal work going on in' sona spa' .
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after watching this movie (if you managed to complete), sleep is guaranteed. i watched this cause i forgot to check reviews beforehand and believed that naseeruddin shah do good movies only. the concept is good and will create interest in initial, but failed miserably as the story proceeds. i would blame write and director (same person) for making such a stupid movie and wasting theirs as well as others time and money. cast performance is ok ok, but nothing for shah to do. movie is supposed to be a thriller, but there' s is no thrill watching some stupid dreams and instant healing of people as a after effect of those dreams .
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makes for one confused piece of work, leaving one’s cinematic sensibilities feeling similarly, writes preeti arora .
akarand deshpande’s personal and professional lives are somewhat legendary in mumbai’s theatre scene. there’s the wacky hairdo to begin with, then the entertaining and morally simplistic plays that he dishes out ever so frequently .
drama geeks revere him as the leading light of the ansh theatre company, and not because he’s breaking tremendous new ground with his work on stage (he isn’t) but because he’s keeping the stage alive against all those odds that most others of his vocation fail to overcome - - money, time, space, money, human resources, money .
when it comes to films, though, makarand deshpande should... how do you say this... stop .
as a result, for just rs 2, 500 an hour you can spend all night binging but as long as rucha and ritu sleep well, you’ll feel fresh as a daisy the morning - after. here’s a catch: when you pay your sleep worker to do their job, they’re not just sleeping your sleep, they’re dreaming your dreams, too. tough price to pay if all you wanted was to skip a hangover .
it’s a gold nugget of plot, let’s admit; very h p lovecraft, something sci - fi geeks would crave christopher nolan to direct. already in just one paragraph you can sense the potential of not just a well made film, but also a genuine, hard - hitting moral. instead of developing the idea enough and shaping it into some concretely original story - telling, deshpande waxes eloquent with a battery of fancy (also unnecessary) dialogue and way too many sub - plots. there’s choksey, the homicidal cross - dressing millionaire and his gun with which he threatens to kill off, one by one, his posse of mistresses .
there’s minakshi, the ex - prostitute who is now rehabilitating herself as a sleep worker .
there’s hussain, the corrupt cop who doesn’t play an entirely crucial role in the film but hangs around anyhow, until minakshi rides away with him on his motorcycle .
there’s ritu’s academician brother - in - law, comatose father, and troubled sister, who is apparently a mathematical genius of some sort .
there’s rucha’s alcohol problem, her father’s alcohol problem, her dead mother, and some guy friend of hers who says ‘wow’at least five different times in the course of the film .
after a while, one loses count of the harebrained loopholes that gape through the script. the acting is painfully amateur, with most of the faces being recognisable to anyone who has ever spent enough time at mumbai’s prithvi café .
be it on stage or behind the camera, makarand deshpande needs to learn that it isn’t his responsibility to educate us about the ills of modern life. we’re all too aware about the pervasive nature of bollywood celebrity and pop culture in the everyday (as portrayed in sbtkh), and we sure as hell know about sleep disorders. it’s about time mumbai’s most conspicuous theatre personality tries telling us a story for the sake of the story itself, and not because of some underlying itch to share his midnight epiphanies with the world .
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once the bonding between the client and the sleep worker is done, they will sleep for you and you can go on with your busy day. while they sleep, you will feel rested and relaxed, but they will also have access to your dreams .
in your dreams, you commit various kinds of crimes, now your sleep worker is the eye witness .
a compelling, intriguing, mysterious and a funny tale of sleep told through 2 protagonists (sleep workers), rucha a billionaire from mumbai and ritu, a middle class girl from pune .
rucha wants to sleep for her billionaire father who doesn' t get sleep and ritu for her sister who is not able to sleep remembering the tragedy in which they lost their mother and brother .
rucha and ritu start sleeping on behalf of their clients and in the process live their dreams .
complexities emerge however when these sleep workers not only sleep on behalf of their sleep deprived clients, but even inhabit the kingdom of their dreams .
the sleep workers' dreams becomes manifestations of their client' s subconscious mind .
as secrets successively spill out into the open, they etch the many machinations of the human mind .
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the question of why it is girls who must do the sleeping “not with you, but for you” — and the corollary: why the “you”, the client who has disturbed sleep, must necessarily be male - - is the film’s first stumbling block. that gendered division of labour is so crucial to the film’s sensual / sexual dynamics that writer - director makarand deshpande does not even think to provide us a reason for it .
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makrand deshpande' s cinematic adaptation of his own play by the same name is definitely alluring in its concept but is ridiculously banal in its vision and execution with mediocre acting .
the sleep workers' dreams becomes manifestations of their client' s subconscious mind. as secrets successively spill out into the open, they etch the many machinations of the human mind .
the concept and how makrand deshpande loses the grand opportunity to make an erotic adult entertainer out of this innovative intention to trip into the world of dreams. acting is strictly okay .
` figure' this. . the sleep workers are all young women and all their clients are men. one is choskey played by romi jaspal who is a complete sleazy material dreaming of erotic cross gender encounters with his keeps. there is also a hint of the two sleep workers lesbian relationship which doesn, t goes further .
a police inspector poses as a tv executive enters as a client to find out any racket going on and meets his ex flame a prostitute who has turned as a sleep worker for good .
and to make matters more worse. . what made the brilliant talent like naseeruddin shah to sign this project and accept the role of this baba dayanand who refuses to come out from his chair till the end. .
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sona spa is a 2013 hindi drama film directed by makarand deshpande and produced by madan paliwal . the film features naseeruddin shah , aahana kumrah , shruti vyas and pooja pradhan as main characters . also awarded first position in a show called ' ghanta awards ' , which awards the worst ever of bollywood , in the category of ' shit nobody saw ' film . 
sona spa is a 2013 hindi drama film directed by makarand deshpande and produced by madan paliwal. the film features naseeruddin shah, aahana kumrah, shruti vyas and pooja pradhan as main characters. also awarded first position in a show called' ghanta awards', which awards the worst ever of bollywood, in the category of' shit nobody saw' film.
sona spa is a 2013 hindi drama film directed by makarand deshpande and produced by madan paliwal. the film features naseeruddin shah, aahana kumrah, shruti vyas and pooja pradhan as main characters. also awarded first position in a show called' ghanta awards', which awards the worst ever of bollywood, in the category of' shit nobody saw' film.