For me, it was not very clear what Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare (Dolly Kitty and Those Shining Stars) was trying to convey mostly because it is a hot mess about relationships going under. Konkona Sensharma and Bhumi Pednekar star as two sexually frustrated women who try to come in terms with a male-dominated world where female pleasure is taboo. THAT is clear but the commentary seemed half-baked to me and I was confused what director Alankrita Srivastava thinks women empowerment actually is. I am no expert either but at least we both seem to agree with how life turns out for the both the characters at the end. A poor attempt with a humdrum plot and nothing remarkable to take away, including Sensharma's and Pednekar's dull performances. (Grade D+). TN.

Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare : Movie Review -

Alankrita Srivastava's last outing Lipstick Under My Burkha was somehow a well made movie and Strictly a commercial success on low level but it caught eyes because of expansion of sexual needs women have in society. It was strange to see that people rememberer the vulgarity more than the message they wanted to tell in that film but anyways overall it was a critical and commercial success. Since then Alankrita's next was awaited for 2 things, 1 is what more she has to expand this time and how sensitively she handles the vulgarity as it was to come from Woman's point of view. Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare failed to impress with the trailer at first and now the final picture isn't anything different. The same cry with different shades of tears and mainly diverted by unnecessary vulgarity.

Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare has potential explore some super serious issues but lost the opportunity under the lame cover of Woman Empowerment and Freedom.. Does Woman Empowerment and Freedom means Freedom to have wild life, sexual relationships and extramarital sexual affairs? I guess it does but for only for Alankrita Srivastava, not for us. The film is about 2 cousin sisters, Dolly and Kaajal aka Kitty. Dolly is married and likely sounds happy with the kids but changes the course of sane life after seeing wild life style of Kitty who works as a Female companion at a call center. The reason why did she have mid life crisis and wild fascinations was never clear or strong hence the entire character loses it's hold. On the other side, Kaajal aka Kitty is nasty since the start so it was easy to digest her wild fascinations about Love and Sex untill she tried to find the sense in her non sense life. The male characters just doesn't belong to any matured club so it's better not to talk about them.

Performance wise Konkona Sen Sharma tops followed by Bhumi Pednekar and Aamir Bashir. Vikrant Massey and Amol Parashar were not upto the mark but the child artist were suprisingly Amazing. Writing like i said had potential to go to some extent and pull off something amazingly sensitive and taboo breaking but Alankrita was more focused towards Vagina and Sexual Problems thus downgraded the potential. Music is to be said average at best cost and that too if one can give it 2nd viewing which is unlikely to happen. Technical features are disturbing and clumsy. Dialogues are fine at some occasions but bad otherwise.

Alankrita seems to have a wrong frame of Woman Empowerment in her mind which is totally unacceptable. Lipstick Under My Burkha survived because it had more characters from different age groups so the problems and different theories were divided and gone overlooked in busy trafficking. Here, Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare was trapped in two characters of almost similar age so there was no lucky escape this time. The characters were unshaped but the timeline and structure of storytelling were totally disasters. Even after spending more than half of the runtime the film didn't come to the point and then in Climax it was all rushing yards scenario which barely gave it time to settle. The last 15 minutes of the film are disastrous and clueless that even Average looking film goes below par level. Overall, it is nothing but just a semi porn or lust story wrapped in the paper called Woman Empowerment. When you open it you enjoy the Vulgarity but spit out the wrong message.

RATING - 5/10*

This movie is another example of new wave Indian cinema which is more daring than the usual Bollywood formula driven scripts. There have been good films to come from this new wave but there have also been absolute "Turkeys". This film falls into the latter category. The script is incoherent, moving at a snail's pace towards an ill-defined goal. The scenes seem randomly stuck together thereby eliminating any continuity. The result is just a complete and utter waste of time. It is surprising that such an incoherent production made it to a streaming site. It's simply bad and that's all one need say about it!