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After a long time, there's a movie out which targets youth audience and is all about friendship, love. Yes, I am talking about 'De Taali'. There wasn't much publicity for this movie but it did good at box office.
The songs are hummable. Vishal Shekhar are slowly finding their way in my list of all time favorites. My personal favorite is the 'Maari Teetri' song. The beats are too good and different.
Story:Paglu (Ritesh Deshmukh), Amu (Ayesha Takia) and Abhi (Aftab Shivdasani) are best of friends. The story takes interesting turn when Amu falls in love with Abhi and Abhi finds his soulmate in Anjalee (Rimi Sen), the con. How Paglu and Amu save Abhi from Anjalee's evil clutches forms the rest of the story.
This movie is one of those that depends a lot on tight screenplay and crisp editing. Both areas could have been improved. However, the shortcomings were covered very well by solid performances from the four leading stars of the movie.
The movie has its own moments which I just loved:
1. Rimi Sen being tortured by making her watch 'RGV ki Aag' repeatedly
The director, E. Niwas was a former assistant to Ram Gopal Verma
2. Aftab proposing love to Ayesha
3. Saurabh Shukla rescuing Ritesh & Ayesha with the 'Jai Maharaj' slogan
4. Rimi Sen enjoying monkeys on TV with her eerie laugh
There's not much really to say about anything else but that some of the boring scenes could have been cut. Cinematography, Choreography - everything was just fine. Read Rediff's review here.
think M Rating: 3.0/5.0
Some great moments and good comic scenes can have a weak story converted into a big blockbuster and here's how by Farah Khan, the directory of OSO.
1. Cast SRK and a newbie hottie: Deepika Padukone.
2. Generate enough hype and arouse good amount of interest in media, public.
3. Throw in some good music.
4. Project it as remake of one movie and make it a remake of another one.
As far as the last point is concerned, I am talking about obvious comparisons being made to Karz and the movie turning out to be a remake of Madhumati. What saddens me the most is not a single review out there gives credit to Madhumati. Leave alone the makers.
Well, now with these 4 stellars, the pot-pourri is ready to be presented. :)
Here's the story for those who have not yet seen the movie or read about it elsewhere.
Story: Om Prakash Makhija (SRK) is a 70s junior artist smitten by the then popular actress Shanti (Deepika Padukone). He saves Shanti's life from a fire mishap that happens during one of the movie shoots giving him a chance to get close to Shanti. The latter however is already in love with her secret husband Mukesh Mehra (Arjun Rampal). Mukesh is an evil man and is tired of Shanti not helping him get a certain producer's wealth and daughter. He kills her and in the process kills an already heart broken Om.
Here is when the Karz like part starts. Om is reborn as Om Kapoor, son of a famous actor, who gets stardom spoon fed to him. Certain incidents help OK (Om Kapoor) remember his previous birth and that's when he decides to take revenge from Mukesh. He finds Sandhya/Sandy (Deepika Padukone) and convinces her to fake as Shanti's ghost to force Mukesh to confess his crime.
The climax is a ctrl-C, ctrl-V version from Madhumati. I would highly recommend my readers to watch the classic.
Do you wonder where's Shreyas Talpade and Kiron Kher? They are Om's best friend and mom in his previous birth. Trying to set up the Karz link.
Going back to the review...
Everyone acted well and the movie did have its moments. I liked the 'Bhaago' scene. The spoof on Filmfare awards was well executed too. However, Akhsay Kumar registering the title of 'Return of Khiladi' is going a bit too far.
Deepika is a delight to watch and does well for a newcomer. She already has bagged quite a few roles, thanks to the success of OSO.
However, Arjun Rampal disappoints. He had my hopes high... Vaada and Elaan justify this.
Shreyas Talpade is wasted in a miniscule role. He deserves much more. Watch Dor, Iqbal to know what I am talking about.
And what to say about SRK. He's after all SRK and enough has already been written about him over so many years. He's managed to get Star Screen Best Actor award for Chak De! India this year already, much to my surprise, as I would have handed over the trophy to Abhishek Bachchan for Guru. On a side note, did you know that 'Chak De! India' was first offered to Salman Khan? Read more here. And that Salman Khan had even turned down Baazigar, before it proved to be a major milestone in SRK's career.
OSO's music is good and Vishal Shekhar are impressive. Well, not as impressive as they were last year. If you remember, I had already handed them a trophy for best music last year.
Farha Khan is good but she needs to improvize in the script and story department. Atleast, the good part is that it's not like Welcome, where all the good comic scenes are out in trailers.
think M Rating: 3.0/5.0
Slick! That's the word that describes the movie perfectly! A movie that I just went to see because of Abhishek Bachchan, a movie that I did not have high hopes on, a movie with lot of areas to improve - that's Bluffmaster for you!
Let's be different in reviewing this movie with clear distinction of pros and cons. Starting with Cons:
1. Music: The credits or rather the debits go to Vishal & Shekhar, TrickBaby, Arash Aneela and Mirza Sameeruddin. After a couple of hearings, you do tend to like the 2 songs - 'Right Here Right Now' (sung by Abhishek Bachchan) and 'Sabse bada rupaiyya' (sung by Mehmood, a new artist on board). But a powerful, impressing music could have done wonders for this movie.
2. Influence from west: The choreography steps, the way most of the artists are dressed and presented - there seems to be lot of influence from the western countries - honestly, it does not suit Indians. Originality is being missed! We love it the old simple Indian way. I hope the new breed of directors and producers pay attention to this before this new influential trend gets onto the nerves of Indian public.
3. Looks: Glamorized clothes and look from Yuva do not gel well together on Abhishek Bachchan. He could not be as stylish as he was in Dhoom, though he put in a decent performance.
Pros:
1. Being a con story, a topic beaten to death (just like romantic stories by Yash Chopra banner), Rohan Sippy managed to have audience glued to their seat. Unpredictable - that's the mantra used and used well for success. Nice direction. Rohan Sippy's first directorial debut (Kuch Na Kaho) was impressive too.
2. Locales have been chosen aptly keeping the script in mind. The script got more importance than anything else, which is good, else you could have seen AB baby and Priyanka Chopra dancing around trees in some foreign locale suddenly in midst of nowhere.
3. There was no one who could be titled as a show-stealer but Nana Patekar for his performance, Boman Irani for his make-believe acting need to be credited. Rest all were mediocre - AB baby, Ritesh Deshmukh and Priyanka Chopra.
4. Solid hai. That's what I would say for Sridhar Raghavan for his screenplay and story (especially some scenes and dialogues for Nana Patekar are too good) and Amitabh Shukla for his editing.
Overall, a timepass paisa-vasool movie. Have a pack of popcorn and just ease yourself in a cinema hall as you watch this latest movie from the Sippy camp. Their next being Taxi Number 9211.
The song sung by Abhishek Bachchan can be viewed here.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
