Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Nana Patekar, Jimmy Shergill, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Arbaaz Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, etc.

Director: Sanjay Gupta, Hansal Mehta, Meghna Gulzar, Rohit Roy, etc.

Dus Kahaniyaan is a film with ten unique stories. The film starts with Matrimony (Arbaaz Khan, Mandira Bedi, Sudhanshu Pandey) and immediately you will get feeling of how things are going to be in the other stories. Film is not dragged in any story. The story and editing being the major crux, these film-makers embark on a trial journey.

High on the highway (Jimmy Shergill, Mausmeh), Pooranmasi (Amrita Singh, Minnisha Lamba, Parmeet Sethi), Rice Plate (Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi) and Gubbare (Nana Patekar, Rohit Roy and Anita Hassanandani) are the pick of the lot and are very interesting to watch.

Each story is handled in a unique way and most of these manage to stand on their own. When you have so many diverse actors doing the things of their own competent way, it keeps you engaged. The Aftab Shivdasani-Neha Uberoi track Lovedale is the weakest. The story is uncanny and like a de-glorified Ramsay film of 80s.

Rise and Fall (Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty) is the slickest of them all and is a decent end to the film. The conservations between Sanjay and Suniel are amazing and the setting is right out of the two actors own backyard. All the stories in the first half revolve around sexual repression, the second half includes the super-natural and the underworld as well.

There are small doses of humor but each story has a climax, some of which are very well written and executed. The film depends on the performances, the 10 minute duration of each film leaves very less scope for an actor to leave an impact. However, Shabana Azmi, Nana Patekar, Jimmy Shergill, Neha Dhupia and Mausmeh are the ones who do well for themselves.

Shabana Azmi composed characters that she has been playing off late and her playing the panicky south Indian is a delight to watch. Sanjay Gupta focuses on the story than style. Rise and Fall is where Gupta mpves back into his method approach. Apporva Lakhia, Hansal Mehta, Rohit Roy and Meghna Gulzar seem to have put it all for their 10 minutes of Dus Kahaniyaan fame and execute well.

The film might set a trend of making multiple unconnected short films in one film.