Oct 19, 2009 07:30 PM
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Promos should be banned and well-made ones with immediate effect. The ones which caught my attention were truly awesome. Went to watch 'Blue' thinking it was an adventure film with lots of underwater stunts and action.
With absolutely no plot to hatch, the film meanders from Nassau in the Bahamas ( where the hot Lara Dutta pays lip-service to wanting to open an "Oceanography" institute to save the marine life) to the vehicle-packed streets of Bangkok. What's the connection? No one tells.
You have to ponder over it for another 20 minutes watching a high-speed bike chase, you just don't have a clue to what is happening.....some guy (a dead-pan Zayed Khan) picks up a tab to deliver some goods from someone to somewhere in Bangkok in 30 minutes. Because he fails, he runs...........to the Bahamas........got the connection!!!???!!!
Back to the Bahamas, is Akshay Kumar (aka Arav) who calls Sunjay Dutt 'Sethji' which actually suits him, as he actually is pot-bellied throughout the film and the paunch shows even in the body-hugging diving suit!! Why sethji, JLT, sunjay returns the honour with 'sarkar', why?? No one is telling.
Then enters the mystery lady - Lady in Blue - which is supposed to be a sunken ship from 1949 with a lot of buried treasure on it........The last half an hour is spent in making us understand why the ship is important to everyone and how her treasure can help all the people concerned.
A total of 115 minutes of sheer, mundane, insane, illogical mayhem is Blue in a capsule.....How in the world did they make those damned promos which brought to the theatre in the first place??
Sunjay Dutt looks lost and listless, with his flab he has absolutely no chemistry with Lara Dutta, whose bikini bod under the sea is a non-turnon. Akshay Kumar flexes his muscles when he does not have any. Zayed Khan walks through his role like a zombie. It was good to see Rahul Dev after a long hiatus after Asoka. He has to do little to look villianish. Katrina Kaif gets the wolf-whistles meant for her, though fully-clothed. Kylie Minogue in the credits merited at least a song.
Anthony D'souza needs a groundwork course in scripting and screenplay writing. The camerawork is alternatively shaky and patchy. The music and songs - less said the better - the direction absolutely kiddish. Guess the producers had pots of unutilised capital which has definitely gone down the sea!!
All in all, when we came out of the hall, we were looking blue in the face. I vote that if they want us to throng the cinema halls, they give us 2 tubs of popcorn and a big coke free so that it sees us through to the end of the movie.
