The movie is bad. I have evaluated on the parameters which Karan Johar considers as his forte.
Casting of Shahrukh
Karan's trump card.
Shahrukh The dude, just has lost it. Was it the same Shahrukh who delivered Baazigar / Darr ? Or even recently, Swades ?
He keeps chewing gum throughout the movie and the damn words wont come out of his mouth properly. Second he looks visibly queasy to carry out a guy who has an extra-marital affair. He lacks Notoriety to that role....
He doesn't dance, in the movie. He just spreads his arms like an eagle and looks at the sky.Shahrukh is a good dancer....He hasnt danced in this movie.
And he plays a football coach....A loser in life...A la Million Dollar baby.But he plays it real badly.
Clothes and appearance
Good job, in my opinion EXCEPT for Amitabh Bachan.Preity looks like a porcelain doll. A little too perfect and very un-indian.
The heroines
Historically, Karan's heroines are good to look, talkative and they wear sarees during traditional dances in Punju style marriages.
Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta are good. I mean, they're good to look at. But, there is so much of them on TV/ads etc. you actually know the person....How many time are you gonna see those people ?
Rani Mukherjee tries to a play a dominatrix!!! ugh...A dominatrix has a whip, I know.But as far as I know, no dominatrix wears a cloth to her eyes.....(They generally wear face masks, if they wanted to conceal their identity).
Amitabh and Abhishek
Karan's ability to bring many people into one movie....
Big B has been harassed (not harnessed) as a jerk, and looks like a mess. I mean no-one can identify such a character...Neither NRIs can identify their baaps looking so damn silly and a UP doodhwala will be thinking "wtf" (in Hindi) looking at Big B....One more piece of info to Big B/ Karan.....There is no use faking ...the world knows about Hugh Hefner and his blondes..THe world knows about Ali G..
Abhishek Bachan has identified himself with bacchanalian parties...He is a cool dude with a coat ALL THE TIME...(and in one scene without his trousers, but he still has a coat)
Direction & script
1. Many, many closeups. This looks like a sitcom, with talking faces. Rani Mukherjee emoting her face has an overally duration of approximately 3 or 4 minutes. Shahrukh also has so many closeups. My question to the director is why should you become so dependent on an actor's emotions. Big mistake.
2. The extra marital affair scene was revealed sloppily to the viewer. Shahrukh and Rani getting a room-key looked awkward. If I were the director, I would have shown Shahrukh opening the room curtains in the morning and a surge of anger/confusion/hesitation in both Shahrukh and Rani, after the previous night's mistake (I use "mistake", to make it Indian).... And noone in an extra marital affair make love slowly... I think there should be fear, instinctive , animal-like and really quick ...Not like a godammn suhaag raat scene.
3. The dinner scene where Amitabh says "good joke" was good.
4. The relationship between Amitabh and Kiron Kher is weird. It is like "I am Amitabh and you are Kiron, and we have to know each other in no time, otherwise the movie wont proceed !!!"
5. Too much of inter-dialog, coud have been avoided. What I mean is :- Consider 2 scenes Scene#1 and Scene #2 which are taking place at the same time.Now the scenes 1 and 2 are switched rapidly, yet the context doesnt change, because the discussion is on the same topic.
6.Repetitive use of dry leaves flying around in the "fall season" of NewYork. If a house is shown in a shot, you can see dry leaves flying around on the isolated road.He has repeated this atleast 5 or six times.
7.The song "Where's the party tonight?" is very reminiscent of "its the time to disco" of Kal Ho Na Ho....Big mistake...and there is Preity Zinta also in that video....
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LAST and the MOST IMPORTANT
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India is tired of Manhattan movies. People can't identify with so much richness.
True it is dreamy, but we are tired of NY , Philadephia etc. If you want dreamy stuff, take us to Florence, Milan, Venice etc....Better make an adventure movie set in Congo or Tanzania or on the banks of Amazon....The world is a big place.
I want this effeminate jerk, Karan Johar, to make a movie EXCLUSIVELY in India...With SRK wearing a Dhoti....Maybe that will never happen.
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I wondered if I knew someone who had lot of patience,but now I know.
I appreciate your patience to actually watch the movie and to write a detailed review on the same..
Hats off to your patience..
:)
Yes, you need a lot of patience to watch this...
But to write a review is interesting, imo....
Trying to "tweak" the screenplay or direction to a mediocre movie gives kicks....I know, it is easy to point to defects on someone else's work, but Karan Johar's work should have been better....
Man..you seem to be really disappointed with Karan Johar!! Never knew you were a fan of his and shahrukh khan's...
**Lost for words**
:)
yo dude... sumne josh-alli review barde ashte...fan alla.... :-)
parvagilla nachkobeda..
we all now know that u r a fan of Karan Johar..
haha !! :) maga, isht bega nodidya film andre, u must definitely be a fan ;)
I don't know why people think if its a Bollywood movie , it has to be good and moreover if its a Karan Johar/Sharukh , It has to be a hit. Good that people are finally understanding the lowness in such movies.
Sudeep why should one look out for all those places you have mentioned. Just try seeing 'Nenapirali' and check out the way Mysore and surrounding places have been shot.
And in terms of screenplay and direction 'Nenapirali' was surely a class movie.
I am sure if it was made with a so called Bollywood Tag. It would have been a major hit .
Adeno heltharalla hithlu gida maddalla antha . Hangaithu namma Kannadigara kathe
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Guruve , I wanted to go to a Kannada movie called "mohini", but my cousin was keen on seeing KANK....So naanu KANK ge hogidhu....naanu kannada nodtheeni moms.....
Neen nodolla antha helilla maams , but kannadigarige salpa hindi vyamoha jaasthi ande. on a diff note , Mohini has got bad reviews. It seems the screenplay and story are loose on content. I would suggest Gandugali Kumaararama. Its an ideal movie to watch to put back the romanchana about naadu and nudi ;-). Anyways I never meant to offend you as such, It was just a generalised statement becoz of hysterical bollywood obsessed Kannadigas. I hope you havent taken it personally. And one more thing, if you do get a chance watch 'Nenapirali' ;-)
Yaako nodide? He and his movies are the dumps. And the coterie of him, SRK, Rani, Farah Khan etc. exulting in each other's "genius" sickens me.
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