Souten Movie Review: Razan ?Graduates? to the next level of sleaze

Souten is a take on the Hollywood classic, ?The Graduate?. In ?apna? version of the story, the characters are drawn from the Rajput aristocracy. Vikram Singh plays the younger brother of Shakti Kapoor, who has just come home after completing his MBA, and Padmini Kolhapure plays his mother.

Mahima Chaudhary and Gulshan Grover play another aristocratic couple. Grover plays a typical man, busy with his business, whose idea of recreation is playing polo or hunting, because of which Mahima finds herself lonely and neglected most of the time. She is attracted to Vikarm at first sight, and tries to seduce him. Vikram is more than willing, and what sets off is a steamy affair. Things get complicated when Kiran Rathod arrives on the scene. She plays Gulshan Grover?s daughter from his first wife. Padmini Kolhapure is eager that Vikram gets married to Kiran. Eventually, Vikram and Kiran fall in love, but Mahima can?t tolerate this. The upheavals that occur now on, form the rest of the story.

The main attraction lies purely for the front benchers, because there is more than ample skin show (courtesy Mahima Chaudhry?now we are wondering what the whole hype of her being shown in a ?vulgar? light in the promo was all about?). Souten is a bold subject, where the first half does manage to hold interest, but a shaky second half, brings the film down.

Performance-wise, where Mahima Chaudhary dominates the film, Vikram Singh shows promise. As the director, Karan Razdan does a fair job.