Race 2

All of you would know what to expect when you walk into a movie that has the tag of the Burmawalas associated with it.  One can expect a lot of colour.  By colour I mean every perceivable shade of every perceivable colour would be splashed all across the screen in primarily in the form of the outfits that some gorgeous specimens of humanity would be seen wearing.  In Race 2, the colour extends itself to the houses, the parties, the aircrafts, the scenery, the ruins and of course – the parachutes.

Once you have gotten over the flurry of colour that greets you from scene one, you can definitely expect a twist or two in the tale over a 2.5 hour period.  Oh! I am sorry.  I forgot.  We are talking about the Race franchise out here.  Here you should expect a twist, within a twist, within a twist, within a twist… have I twisted you enough? Not me.  Blame it on the Burmawalas.

 

If it is a movie by the Burmawalas, you can also expect that the heroes and the heroines and the side actors and the even more side”ier” (if there is a word like that) actors are all so rich that they will make Karan Johar movies look like they have just recovered from scarlet fever or jaundice or whatever it is that makes you look really pale.  And of course, everyone everywhere in the world can understand Hindi – this time around the Turkish people are taking to our national language.

 

If you are Armaan Malik (John Abraham) then you will live in a palace that looks like a hotel.  And if you are Ranveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan) then you will have access to all the technology that will make everything a walk in the park.  Whether it is robbing the Shroud of Turin or a running bogie from a train to steal currency plates and of course rob one of the richest casino owners of what matters to him the most – his casinos (Danny Ocean are you listening?)

 

And of course, you will have music from Pritam Choudhary that will make your feet tap for a few months before someone who is after his blood will spam a link that shows that he has copied it from the latest Albanian chart topper.  The Burmawalas also specialize in hiring the likes of Shiraz Ahmed who convert an otherwise perfectly enjoyable movie into the latest method of Chinese torture by using dialogues that make you squirm. For e.g. Kaam ko chhod ke Kaam Dev ko Prasanna karte hain na (I cannot translate this to English because the essence would be lost).

 

Overall, if you are into the Abbas Mastan (Burmawalas) variety of movies then you will love Race 2.  It is slick.  The story is very pacy as always.  And if the Burmwalas pay just that little bit more attention to detail – by finishing their car explosions better or the simpler aspects such as how people would fly out off planes if the glass is broken – they would just be so much better.  As such, very watchable.  Probably the best Bollywood movie released this year so far.  But only marginally.  5.5 on 10.

 

Trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CwQ9PClSWk