Just when I thought my time was getting too pricey for me to enjoy a sip of… ahem ahem.. and write a blog! Just when I thought I did not have the inspiration to write! Along come two colleagues! Both good friends of mine! (One a gal to add more spice to the story :P :P) They take me to this movie! Well one of them forced me to it, so much so he used the “I come with u – u never come with me when I want” that I stopped using more years ago that I can count with my fingers!
Anyways, we land up in this really good theatre! (From where I come most theatres here seem good!! Albert and Udhayam I still miss u!!) There are some movies which u know wud be good before they start making it! There are some movies that take u by surprise. There are movies that u read good reviews of and then think oh I missed it and u go watch! There are these other movies that before u get into the theatre u now is going to be a harrowing journey! There are these other set which u know wud be bad even before u start making it! I will bet my bottom dollar that this is one that falls in either of the last 2 categories! I whine all the way to the theatre and all thru the movie and the way back and I get told the true fun is in laughing at the movie and not with it!! Believe I did that quite a lot!
The star cast is all impressive to a normal move goer! I come from what I would like to call the beyond the stars elite crowd who watches a movie for what it is and not who’s in it! (Not to mention the oh so many movies of Salma Hayek, Demi Moore and a zillion other pretty women) Ten minutes into the movie most people watching it would realise they are in for a cruel ride! Turns out true when u touch 30 minutes! Nothing significant happened at 30! Nothing significant happened the whole way! Am sure u know what I mean!
The first half is a story where the leads gets lost in their own epic not quite true love stories! Lara, though chic to the eye, has a bad French – hindi accent, if ever there was one! Bobby does full justice being the steely rich guy.. Abhishek is watchable with the slang mundiya English! Priety, well not everyone who speaks with an accent is English… As u can see the plot starts so clichéd and carries on all through! Just before intermission or right after (I wasn’t even noticing at that point) u get to know the stories are conjured up! How many times have we seen it before I wonder??? The leads fall in love during this conversation! All of the conversation happens when they are waiting for a train, and the falling in love part is in under 2 hours! As one amongst those guys wondering if I will be eternally single, it totally beats me people! Seriously!
The second half is how they end up fooling each other as to their love story being true! The clichés continue! Some ideas borrowed too! A Sliver kinda guy who has video cams all over the world and calls his law firm Singh & Smith!, A usual suspect kinda finish where each had picked up stories from materials around them, songs at the drop of a hat, dialogues like “If u tell me an ordinary tom is the Taj”, situational backgrounds from yesteryear bollywood movies, how the movie leads always are the prime focus in dance competitions where 100 other professional dancers participate to name a few!
The second half is way better than the first for a few things! Lara looks much better as a hooker, way better than a Indian with a French accent. She is too classy to be a hooker, but then again the movie never ceased to amaze me! Bobby and Abhi are more bearable! A few funny sequences that I don’t understand why was part of the movie though am happy it was, and for the biggest reason of them all – I knew the movie was soon going to end! Just when I thought that, there came a 20 minute song sequence with the same song over and over!! (Movies with long anthakshari sequences suddenly seemed more acceptable for atleast there are different songs) Finally it did end the way we all know it would!If you have posters of Lara and Priety at home and u also have access to typical Punjabi comedy, or even a Punjabi channel on TV, I suggest u watch all these and stay away from the movie halls to go watch this coz I feel I enjoyed that bit coz my Punjabi sucks!
There were a few good things though! The company… yes ofcourse (Guys I know u would read this, so just trying to be polite!!) , the fact that a promotional credit card bought us tickets at half the price… yes, the fact that two people thought I was as important as the movie is and wanted me to tag along… yes, I was able to enjoy a serving of nachos with jalapenos… yes and that the movie was not as long as any other hindi movie – a big F^&%$#@ yes!!
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