Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami

While my first movie of the day (Tamanchey) had very little even remotely good, my 2^nd one yesterday was almost the opposite.  I say almost because like a lot of cinema these days, it had a lot going for it but the finishing was just not there.  It left me with mixed feelings but definitely more good than bad.

Dekh Tamasha Dekh

About 2-3 minutes into Feroze Abbas Khan’s second venture into Bollywood your reaction would be, “This doesn’t seem like a movie at all”.  For those unaware, FAK is a much more well known for his exploits in the theatre circuit.  It seems like the baggage from theatre has been carried over to Dekh Tamasha Dekh not just in terms of narration but more obviously in terms of cast.

Issaq

Manish Tiwary’s previous movie was an offbeat one called Dil Dosti etc.  It was a decent flick.  Worth watching once.  What he got right there was the casting.  What he gets wrong out with Isaaq is one casting error that ensures that the entire movie goes downhill pretty much from frame one.  There is nothing that can save it from absolute deterioration once this person comes onto the screen – PRATEIK BABBAR.

Bumboo

François Pignon is your every day loser with a capital l. There can be no one else who can really get to your nerves as much as Pignon can. He is a shirt salesman and was created by a French gentleman called Francis Veber in a novel way back in the 1971 called Le Contrat (The Contract – my friends who are familiar with French can correct me) and then adapted into a movie called L'emmerdeur (which I can only imagine translates into The Murderer).

Pignon is depressed about his wife leaving him for a doctor and is trying to actually figure out innovative ways to give up his life. He cannot come to terms with the fact that his seriously hot looking wife has left him for an apparently reasonably successful doctor. He believes that his purpose in life is actually over. He doesn’t really know that occupying the room next to him is a contract killer who is has been paid a fortune to stop a particular witness from giving his testimony against a very influential gang. Pignon leaves the contract killer totally frustrated and actually wanting to kill himself in the bargain and not the witness.

Jagdish Rajpurohit obviously found the story extremely entertaining and the concept good enough to be remade into Hindi. And what you have is a slapstick comedy that stars Kavin Dave in the lead role of Suresh Sudhakar aka SuSu. Kavin doesn’t really do his reputation any good or any bad. It is just the way he has always been and will continue to be. It is the niche that Dave occupies in Indian cinema and for those who have liked him in previous movies such as I Hate Luv Storys, you will find him tolerable here as well. I for one found him way over the top.

The rest of the cast that included the likes of Sharat Saxena, Sudhir Pandey and Sanjay Mishra who are dependable usually continue to hold their own but I wonder why they have to succumb to roles like these. Surely there are better roles out there for the taking.

Jagdish Rajpurohit was wondering whether I liked the movie or not when he tweeted back to a post of mine which asked my followers to wish me some luck. Well Jagdishji with all due respect, I know it takes a lot of courage to make movies but it also takes a lot of courage to accept that you haven’t made the cut by a country mile. Its your first one but you know there is lot of hope in Bollywood and some sucker will definitely give you another chance.

Bumboo is a completely “watch at your own risk” movie. There will be many who may like it but I don’t fall in that category. I thought it was really bad. 3 on 10 because I have seen much worse.

Watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JkkCfjjoqo