Madhur Bhandarkar for the first time moves away from his standard formula of a topical movie – Page 3, Fashion, Jail etc. I have always thought that he is vastly over rated but for some wonderful reason – one of the mysteries of the world – he has always gotten away with it. Probably because he makes movies that just about make the cut. Movies which appeal to the audience just enough for them to overlook the ridiculous amounts of inconsistencies and gaffes. It was quite amazing to see that even last nite although at a much more muted level. There were enough and more people who actual found the stale humour which was grossly placed actually humourous. I was taken back to my experience with Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani where I was probably the only person in the hall who wasn’t laughing. This time, however, I wasn’t alone. Thankfully.
Naren Ahuja (Ajay Devgn) is an executive in a bank. He is 38 years old. He is married to Madhavi (Rituparna Sengupta) who is a news reader. They have a daughter. Their 8 year attempt to sustain their marriage has not succeeded. That too by a fair margin. When things come to an absolute head, they decide to part ways. Mutual Separation. She keeps the daughter though. Not that Naren seems to mind in any manner. Naren moves out to his parents place (all of this is in Mumbai) – and what a place it is!!!! If I were Naren, I would not have moved out of the place at all. Nevertheless, he now has the tough job of finding a couple of paying guests just to keep the house occupied. Not good to stay alone after a divorce you see.
In come two drastically different personalities. Milind Kelkar who works with jhatpatshaadi.com and considers himself to be a modern day poet. Needless to say he is atrocious at poetry and even more atrocious with women. His luck is about to go worse when he meets Gungun Sarkar (Shradha Das), an RJ with Big FM @ a poetry recital. He falls head over heels for her and so begins his love story. The other guy is Abhay aka Abby, lesser of a gym instructor (his day job) and more of a Casanova whose only aim in life seems to be to bed every single woman in the world. And they all seem to be suckered in; quite comfortably at that. A monetary constraint gets him thinking and he uses his charm to be the boy toy of ex Miss India Anuskha Narang (Tisca Chopra), the wife of a big time industrialist. He is the magnetic opposite of Milind. Where Milind spends all his savings on Gungun and company, Abby gets Anushka to spend money on him. Rounding off the female love interests is June Pinto (Shazahn Padamsee) who joins Naren’s team as an intern and gets him all smitten for her. Not going to reveal the entire point of Shruti Hassan who plays the role of Nikki Narang. That will retain the bare minimum element of suspense in an otherwise drab movie.
There are only 2 semblances of acting in the movie. Ajay Devgn in his role of the 38 year old divorcee desperately seeking to impress a girl half his age and the associated embarrassing situations are quite well done. And Tisca Chopra continues to show the talent and class that can be associated more often with stage actors than others. Shruti Hassan is confident and much better than her previous outing (Luck) but still doesn’t convince you that she comes from the gene pool of 2 of India’s finest actors. Shazahn Padamsee should stop acting – IMMEDIATELY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – go to acting school and come back with some semblance of acting capabilities. Ditto for Omi Vaidya who I believe is one of the most over rated actors in recent times. Don’t know what to say about Shradha Das. Lastly, Emraan Hashmi should stick to Mahesh Bhatt movies with a super sound track that do a fabulous job of hiding his acting skills or should I say the lack of them.
Extremely disappointing effort overall. This time around Madhur Bhandarkar does not meet his “just about par” formula for success. Sorry producers. You are going to lose some money here. Viewers – please don’t lose yours. 3 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvtFLd6sAMU
Naren Ahuja (Ajay Devgn) is an executive in a bank. He is 38 years old. He is married to Madhavi (Rituparna Sengupta) who is a news reader. They have a daughter. Their 8 year attempt to sustain their marriage has not succeeded. That too by a fair margin. When things come to an absolute head, they decide to part ways. Mutual Separation. She keeps the daughter though. Not that Naren seems to mind in any manner. Naren moves out to his parents place (all of this is in Mumbai) – and what a place it is!!!! If I were Naren, I would not have moved out of the place at all. Nevertheless, he now has the tough job of finding a couple of paying guests just to keep the house occupied. Not good to stay alone after a divorce you see.
In come two drastically different personalities. Milind Kelkar who works with jhatpatshaadi.com and considers himself to be a modern day poet. Needless to say he is atrocious at poetry and even more atrocious with women. His luck is about to go worse when he meets Gungun Sarkar (Shradha Das), an RJ with Big FM @ a poetry recital. He falls head over heels for her and so begins his love story. The other guy is Abhay aka Abby, lesser of a gym instructor (his day job) and more of a Casanova whose only aim in life seems to be to bed every single woman in the world. And they all seem to be suckered in; quite comfortably at that. A monetary constraint gets him thinking and he uses his charm to be the boy toy of ex Miss India Anuskha Narang (Tisca Chopra), the wife of a big time industrialist. He is the magnetic opposite of Milind. Where Milind spends all his savings on Gungun and company, Abby gets Anushka to spend money on him. Rounding off the female love interests is June Pinto (Shazahn Padamsee) who joins Naren’s team as an intern and gets him all smitten for her. Not going to reveal the entire point of Shruti Hassan who plays the role of Nikki Narang. That will retain the bare minimum element of suspense in an otherwise drab movie.
There are only 2 semblances of acting in the movie. Ajay Devgn in his role of the 38 year old divorcee desperately seeking to impress a girl half his age and the associated embarrassing situations are quite well done. And Tisca Chopra continues to show the talent and class that can be associated more often with stage actors than others. Shruti Hassan is confident and much better than her previous outing (Luck) but still doesn’t convince you that she comes from the gene pool of 2 of India’s finest actors. Shazahn Padamsee should stop acting – IMMEDIATELY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE – go to acting school and come back with some semblance of acting capabilities. Ditto for Omi Vaidya who I believe is one of the most over rated actors in recent times. Don’t know what to say about Shradha Das. Lastly, Emraan Hashmi should stick to Mahesh Bhatt movies with a super sound track that do a fabulous job of hiding his acting skills or should I say the lack of them.
Extremely disappointing effort overall. This time around Madhur Bhandarkar does not meet his “just about par” formula for success. Sorry producers. You are going to lose some money here. Viewers – please don’t lose yours. 3 on 10.
Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvtFLd6sAMU
awesome ... Like the prelude to the review , absolutely accurate summarisation of madhur bhandarkars limited talents!
ReplyDeleteok.. thats another 500 bucks you saved me.. :)
ReplyDeleteWill have to watch it on DVD or i am sure colours or star will show it in precisely 2 weeks time