They are at it again.
It has been a year since the trio came with a small movie, a combination debut as soft as a cat's whisper and went on blow the brains off conventional Bollywood Marketing Wisdom, with a maniacal laugh.

BHEJA FRY still continues to be the most favorite cult movie since its release.

It still continues to whet your imagination and tickle your funny bones for the quirky brand of humor that would have been unimaginable in a commercial mainstream feature, because the "Know-all Established directors" always seem to know what we the audience always wanted. And for them, this wasn't "sellable" humor.

And this time around, it is not Sagar Ballary who is wielding the microphone but Rajat Kapoor himself.

Knowing Rajat Kapoor, you wouldnt be a stranger to his maniacal brand of humor had you watched in another film way back in 2003 called Raghu Romeo, with Vijay Raaz in the lead who brilliantly essayed the 30 - something henpecked waiter who gets himself dragged into the Mumbai Mafia quagmire.

Scripted and directed by Rajat Kapoor, it went on to win the Silver Lotus Award for the Best Regional Film (Hindi) by the Government of India in 2004.

And if you think the Government always had this habit of giving away such awards for movies which weren't even worth watching, you might as well look at the movies that went on to win the awards for the same category in the following years - RAINCOAT (2005) and BLACK (2006).

Surely, they must've seen something very unique, creative and wonderful in the script, wouldn't they?
And with a single preview, the trio have yet again, set the blogosphere and chat rooms on fire.


Rajat Kapoor says he had the script of this movie for almost nine years with him, but try as he might he couldn't even get a single producer to even have a cursory look at the script.

The reason was more or less the same that has in the past stifled craftsmen of refreshing caliber, a reason so trivial that it almost sounds comical when looked at in the present context. It was just that the Established Big Daddies didn't think the audience was ready for this brand of cinema.

How magnanimous and benevolent of them.

Mithya is the story of VK, (Ranvir Shorey in the lead role), the Bollywood struggler who dreams making it big in the fabled land of greasepaint and girls and gets unknowingly drawn into the Mumbai Underworld, which beats in tandem with the Bollywood money machines. Its a manic chase where he plays and imposter that he is not and how all hell breaks loose after that.

Vinay Pathak who tags along VK, and Naseeruddin Shah who plays the quirky underworld Don completes the mad and maniacal ensemble of this mad, moody movie.

Oh, did I forget Neha Dhupia?

Arindam Choudhary of Planman Motion Pictures is the Producer (yes, yes, the very own IIPM Arindam Choudhary) of Mithya, who as the story goes decided to produce the movie in 15 minutes of reading the script.

The same producer who once declared that he had the right formula to script a Hindi hit and brought us "Rok sake to Rok lo",which yours truly still hasn't forgotten.

It was surely the right formula.
For how NOT to make a Hindi movie.

Thank God, better sense has prevailed this time around, and surprisingly is bringing Amitabh Bachchan's much celebrated project "The Last Lear" onto Indian screens.

Comparisons are sure to crop up every second minute just for the reason that the last movie was a cult classic, but it shouldn't matter. You can always trust the trio to come up with spectacular and unique performances, going by their performances on individual capacities in different projects.

And it is still worth repeating what has been often said through these columns.
They represent the refreshing new wave of talent that has slowly come to shake the Big Ones out of their slumber.

The slumber of taking their audience for granted.

And if they say that these new wave of young blood stand guilty of forcibly getting them to improve as performers,i am only happy to join the Constant Fan's chorus. "Guilty as Charged"!.

For, they represent the hope of a New Bollywood.