Ramaiya Vastavaiya

Marvellous Effort

This is a world of cultural values that are gone with the wind. Almost. It takes a man of Prabhudheva's innocent insouciance to bring alive that almost-forgotten feeling of the good old fashioned commercial cinema where the rich throw bundles of bank notes into the faces of the poor to get anything done, and the poor live on farms in the back of the beyond where credit cards are yet to reach.

"Maine Pyar Kiya", anyone? Yes, Prabhudheva's film, designed…