3G

It is incredibly difficult, after a point of time, to tolerate the kind of crap that directors dis out these days as cinema.  Maybe I am getting unfairly bugged about 3G because it was definitely not as crappy as the Vikram Bhatt movies or those starring a certain Mahakshaya.  But 3G wasn’t too far away from this abysmal mark.

Sheershak Anand & Shantanu Ray Chhibber have had a busy year so far.  They had a decent beginning to the year with Table No. 21 which was yet another average thriller.  They were just writers to date and have now decided to dabble with direction.  But their benchmark has slipped from average to below average.

 

The premise of the movie is in itself howlarious.  Spirits exist in this world and they have the capability to talk to you through this wonderful new technology called a cellphone.  Of course, you need a 3G connection.  Even if I were to give them marks for a creative concept, the execution of the entire storyline just makes you want to laugh out loud.

 

Sam Arora (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and Sheena (Sonal Chauhan) are a couple who are out on vacation.  Sheena has told her mother that she is out with “friends”.  Sam almost bails out but then in true Bollywood fashion makes his appearance on a large boat.  He is maneuvering it sometimes.  But most of the time he is just posing on the stern (or hull or whatever it is that the front side of a boat is called :-p).  Superb juggling I must say.

 

A song later (or was it 2 songs), Sam’s phone gets a call in the middle of the night.  This is a new phone he had to buy because in the excitement of meeting his hot girlfriend, his phone drops into the sea.  The call is from an unknown number and since it is set somewhere in the future (I assume) it is a video call.

 

Another hot girl (Mrinalini Sharma) comes up on the screen to tell our man how good he is and the shot suddenly cuts to her being accosted by an unknown person.  Sam then gets hallucinations at all kinds of places.  When he is in the bathroom or bedroom or when he is making out with Sheena.  And the hallucinations are gory images of the same woman.

 

The rest of the story meanders along 2 wasted hours of the search for why our man is getting these visions in the first place. This dovetails back to the concept of the movie.  Bad execution.  Less than average performances.  Average Music and therefore an overall below par movie.

 

Shantanu and Sheershak continue with their plot being based out of Fiji (Are they Fijians by any chance? Or did they get some bulk deal for the island country?).  Every alternate Fijian is also fluent in Hindi.  Including the whites.  The horror sequences are a bit scary in parts but more often than not, they are hilarious.  Don’t waste your time with this one.  3 on 10 is my verdict.

 

Watch the trailer on http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1627823385/?ref_=tt_ov_vi