Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Sakshi Tanwar, Harsh Chhaya

Director: Gurbeer Grewal

A coffee house is the meeting point for a motley group: crotchety old men lamenting the state of the nation, a crooked threesome bent on eradicating corruption through mostly foul means, a troubled live-in couple, and a husband-and-wife duo (Ashutosh and Sakshi) who could be called, for technical purposes, the hero and heroine of this film which tries to tackle all kinds of issues with scant success.

Modern young couples treat their mother and father as glorified servants. Chasing advertisements goes against the grain of a fair and free press. TV channels are the repositories of all evil, and their rapacious bosses are devils incarnate. Ambitious girls who sell body-and-soul have to cut their wrists in hotel rooms. And, oh, before we forget, self-serving politicians of all hues are worse than TV channel heads.

‘Coffee House’ is one long rant, done as simplistically as possible. It gives us TV actor Sakshi Tanwar in her first screen role, and Ashutosh Rana yet another chance to show his exemplary Hindi skills: “main vyakti hoon, vastu nahin….” Makes for good oratory, but a good film? Uh huh.