May be the title should have been Bachna Ae Audience, 'coz this is nothing but a glorification of the Yash-Aditya Romance, and with basically one of three darling heroines a complete Simran from DDLJ.. But one thing I do agree to is that the second half of the movie considerably picks and gives a little spark in the brain to those who are suffering from severe overdose of DejaVu..
Ranbir is good at playing his chirpy bubbly self and with a dash of charm showing up in places. But I somehow got the feeling through out the movie that he really is capable of much more than just that, looked like he was just taking it light... a little too light.. :) Amongst the heroines and their chemistry I would rate Deepika the best, she was a natural when it came to chemistry, you might of course point out that they are afterall real life couple too.. but mon amis.. you forget how non chemical Kareena and Shahid were .. until they split }:-) !! So.. I give her the credit and after Deepika its Bipasha, her usual best-as-sultry self.
The story line, although I am not going to give out much kinda goes like this .. Boy meets girl, has some fun (clean, except for a smooch) dumps girl unceremoniously. Boy meets another girl, has some fun (not so clean this time!) dumps her too unceremoniously at the alter and runs off to Australia - job related loong trip. Boy meets yet another girl.. has some fun (this time clean too) , seriously falls in love, and girl dumps! But since this is a hindi movie and hindi movies can't at any cost let the hero bear the brunt of a heart break, the last one comes back.. but something else happens in between.. Boy troubled by his earlier actions of dumping girlfriends, goes back to apologize to them.. do they forgive? can they reconcile to the fact that he is THE person who literally destroyed their life's and yet has the cheek to come back and mutter a sorry??!!
Hmm.. that's for you to see, however I warn you, the first half is dragging, leaving you wishing the director would hurry things up.. and seriously, the movie can use a little more humor, for being a romantic comedy, it does not make the viewer laugh much.. in that way I loved Jab we met, it has quirky dialogues and was really fun to watch. Also the 'transformation' of Ranbir's character is not really impactful.. meaning for a person who realizes that dumping can hurt.. and realizes how much he's hurt the people he dated, Raj (Ranbir's character) does not show any change in emotion or person, even the desperation in winning the apologies has just been 'slept through'. A little more push would have made the movie a better one and a memorable one as well, but for now it remains a passable afternoon watch.. with one good song!
STARS: ***
Friday, September 5, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Wanted..
Its a bird, its a plane.. its superman!... hark.. no its Wesley Gibson..! Who's that you ask? Its our hero the nerd, the accountant or just another boring face.. until he discovers that his he apparently possesses superhuman capabilities which he often mistook to be panic attacks.. and what better way to discover your 'hero' abilities than hearing it from the beautiful sexy and well a little anorexic Angelina Jolie.. a.k.a Fox, that too amidst a high profile car chase. Minutes before the chase Wesley is told that his long lost daddy dear was the greatest assassin on earth and one of his colleagues killed him .. out of apparent envy or something.. that does not matter though.. and now its up to Wesley to avenge his father's death.
As all superheros, Wesley also has to undergo some emotional and physical torture before becoming a man! And so we have a lot of beating up, toughening up..and repairing of the body and soul before he can become a killing machine.. Cliched you say? Well script writers were hired.. they had to put in some work! So the teeny weeny bit of originality in the movie is a 'different' way of firing a bullet.. a curved trajectory.. no you did not read wrong, it is what it is..a curved trajectory so that the assassins don't kill any innocent onlookers who happen to call hell on themselves by coming between the assassin and the target, neat.. but too hard to believe, but then again nothing about this movie is believable and you get that impression just 5 minutes into the movie! So if you are the kind that goes to the movie hall to search for logic, skip this one.
Not to mention that the assassins are a part of the fraternity that is built on the most ridiculous belief that weave of a cloth contains a binary code to a person's name and this name comes up by fate and the assassins have to follow the code and kill anyone who's name comes up.. It doesn't matter whether you know him or don't or if he proven guilty of anything at all..But 'fate' decided he should die and so it be!
Well I am not gonna go into the rest of the details of the plot, watch it for yourself , I will say this much though that there is a twist in the tale.. and its not too elaborately done, so it fails to create an impression.
The funny parts, that one can actually relate to in the movie are possibly the office scenes like when Wesley tries to search himself on Google and when it turns up no results he cries to himself and wishes he was really somebody..! Don't we all?
STARS : **1/2
As all superheros, Wesley also has to undergo some emotional and physical torture before becoming a man! And so we have a lot of beating up, toughening up..and repairing of the body and soul before he can become a killing machine.. Cliched you say? Well script writers were hired.. they had to put in some work! So the teeny weeny bit of originality in the movie is a 'different' way of firing a bullet.. a curved trajectory.. no you did not read wrong, it is what it is..a curved trajectory so that the assassins don't kill any innocent onlookers who happen to call hell on themselves by coming between the assassin and the target, neat.. but too hard to believe, but then again nothing about this movie is believable and you get that impression just 5 minutes into the movie! So if you are the kind that goes to the movie hall to search for logic, skip this one.
Not to mention that the assassins are a part of the fraternity that is built on the most ridiculous belief that weave of a cloth contains a binary code to a person's name and this name comes up by fate and the assassins have to follow the code and kill anyone who's name comes up.. It doesn't matter whether you know him or don't or if he proven guilty of anything at all..But 'fate' decided he should die and so it be!
Well I am not gonna go into the rest of the details of the plot, watch it for yourself , I will say this much though that there is a twist in the tale.. and its not too elaborately done, so it fails to create an impression.
The funny parts, that one can actually relate to in the movie are possibly the office scenes like when Wesley tries to search himself on Google and when it turns up no results he cries to himself and wishes he was really somebody..! Don't we all?
STARS : **1/2
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