We’d heard that some fathers loath their young sons.
Maybe, the fathers see their grownup, priapically obsessed youthful-looking sons as a rival for their wives’ affections.
But the wise souls at SI never believed in such Freudian drivel and Oedipal fiction. At least, not until we were confronted with hard, rock-solid evidence today in Pankaj Kapur’s directorial debut Mausam featuring his son Shahid Kapur.
For two hours and 45-minutes, we witnessed first hand the depth of hatred, the deadly venom oozing out of every pore of Pankaj Kapur’s body, aimed at his handsome son Shahid Kapur (by Pankaj’s first wife Neelima Azeem).
Folks, Pankaj Kapur’s is no run-of-the-mill Kutta, Kaminey kind of hatred.
Au contraire, this is one of those dreadful Maderchod, aaj tera gaand zaroor maroonga kinda, deep-rooted animus.
And guess what, true to his Mephistophelean game plan Pankaj Kapur acted the saboteur and buggered son Shahid well and truly in Mausam.
Beta Shahid won’t be able to walk normally for the next six months.
Boring Shit
To all those including yours truly who expected a beautiful piece of art from the talented Indian actor Pankaj Kapur in Mausam, all we can say is that the old man expelled one excruciatingly long, malodorous fart on Bollywood fans today.
Try as we may, we’re unable to find any exculpatory evidence.
You see, Pankaj Kapur is no babe in the woods. The old man’s been kicking around Bollywood films and Indian TV serials for nearly three decades.
Yet, the ‘movie’ he unleashed today shows that Pankaj Kapur has learned little of how things work behind the camera. Strange.
A hopelessly shoddy script, pedestrian photography (except in a stray scene or two), ordinary music, wildly implausible circumstances and a ridiculously happy ending dooms Mausam and tosses it on the mountainous dumpster of Bollywood.
Worse, Pankaj Kapur’s willful sabotage makes a mockery of the fine effort the acting crew put in.
Pankaj’s son Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor and wife Supriya Pathak throw in respectable performances as do the others including Manoj Pahwa and Aditi Sharma.
Shahid Kapoor, along with Ranbir Kapoor, is the only hope for Bollywood to salvage its reputation with the Gen-Y crowd.
And we had no complaints against Shahid in Mausam. Whether as the young lad in Mallukot, the grownup Air Force officer or the pining lover, he delivers the acting goods.
Sonam Kapoor is getting better and in a Bollywood filled with two-bit ***** like Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai, it warms the cockle of this ol’ heart to finally see an actress with a good bit of class and lotsa grace.
To these fading eyes at least, Sonam Kapoor is a sunshine of delight in a Bollywood filled with varmint. Now, if only the girlie had a better bust, or at least one perceptible to the naked eye. 
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