Even though we have Bollywood biggies in the film, the film doesn’t strike much. Salman Khan & Kareena Kapoor starrer Main Aur Mrs. Khanna, has released today along with some mighty contenders.
The film is a subtle love story and talks about complicated relations. The film is about
Samir Khanna (Salman Khan) and Raina (Kareena Kapoor) who marry against the will of Samir’s parents. Samir shifts to Australia but fails in making a better career for himself and decides to send off his wife back to Delhi, where she stayed at an orphanage and he himself moves to Singapore.
Raina however decides to stay back in Australia and work in a café. She is helped out by Aakash (Sohail Khan), who falls in love with her. While the story goes like this, we have Samir return as a successful business man and the story gets complicated.
The love story in the film is subtle and would have proved interesting but the narration is pretty typecast and hence fails to make any mark.
Friday, October 16, 2009
BLUE
Director: Anthony D'Souza
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan
Rating: ****
Blue is the perfect example of a good 100 crores going down the drain (sau karod paani mein daal dena). Sure the film promises some brilliant visuals and underwater images never seen before in Indian films thanks to one of the finest underwater cinematographers in the world (Pete Zuccarini). But sadly the credit list literally lacks the mention of a screenplay writer. The scene opens in post-independence era of 1949 when a ship from Britain to India is bringing back its long looted riches. Strangely as per goofed-up geography, the shipwreck happens in Bahamas (that figures nowhere on the course of voyage). The treasure lies deep inside oceans untouched for more than half a century. The scene opens in present-day Bahamas with good-friends Aarav (Akshay Kumar) and Sagar (Sanjay Dutt) fishing and fighting together. The latter addresses the former as Sarkar for being filthy-rich. But the former more aptly addresses the latter as Sethji (not for his possessions but perhaps his paunch).
Sagar's brother Sam (Zayed Khan) is estranged from him for strange reasons. He races bikes rapidly and romances babes vapidly. Fleeing from mafia men, he returns to Big Brother house. By interval point you only relish the sight of fish but sadly get to see no meat in the plot. In absence of a sane screenplay, the viewer is subjected to burnout action sequences and bike chases. By the time the oceanic treasure-hunt initiates in the climax, you see blue since the film is 'in deep water'. Sadly the authentic aquatic life is put to no active use as even the sharks seem to be harmlessly herbivorous. Rather the regular hero-villain combats are replicated in the oceans to no groundbreaking effect with the marine life playing passive spectators to the proceedings
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan
Rating: ****
Blue is the perfect example of a good 100 crores going down the drain (sau karod paani mein daal dena). Sure the film promises some brilliant visuals and underwater images never seen before in Indian films thanks to one of the finest underwater cinematographers in the world (Pete Zuccarini). But sadly the credit list literally lacks the mention of a screenplay writer. The scene opens in post-independence era of 1949 when a ship from Britain to India is bringing back its long looted riches. Strangely as per goofed-up geography, the shipwreck happens in Bahamas (that figures nowhere on the course of voyage). The treasure lies deep inside oceans untouched for more than half a century. The scene opens in present-day Bahamas with good-friends Aarav (Akshay Kumar) and Sagar (Sanjay Dutt) fishing and fighting together. The latter addresses the former as Sarkar for being filthy-rich. But the former more aptly addresses the latter as Sethji (not for his possessions but perhaps his paunch).
Sagar's brother Sam (Zayed Khan) is estranged from him for strange reasons. He races bikes rapidly and romances babes vapidly. Fleeing from mafia men, he returns to Big Brother house. By interval point you only relish the sight of fish but sadly get to see no meat in the plot. In absence of a sane screenplay, the viewer is subjected to burnout action sequences and bike chases. By the time the oceanic treasure-hunt initiates in the climax, you see blue since the film is 'in deep water'. Sadly the authentic aquatic life is put to no active use as even the sharks seem to be harmlessly herbivorous. Rather the regular hero-villain combats are replicated in the oceans to no groundbreaking effect with the marine life playing passive spectators to the proceedings
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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