Jul 29, 2016 11:43 PM
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I am Watchingt his movie because there is super hit Jodi of Bollywood work together.SRK and his brother Varun are running a Dilip Chhabria kind of car modification enterprise in Goa with loyal aides Mukesh Tiwari and Pankaj Tripathi for company with a cartoonish drug lord, Boman Irani, lurking in the background. But there is also a Mafiosi past in Bulgaria; gold consignments straight out of the era of Hindi film villains like Loin, some gunshots, a heartbreak and dialogue like“Hum shareef kya hue poori duniya hi badmash ban gayi”(When we turned respectable, the whole world turned dishonest) and“Zindagi ne itni pulling ki, kabhi striling nahi mili”. Let’s not even try and translate that!
The deliberate attempt to repackage and sell the Kajol-SRK romance of yore backfires, seeming like a pale shadow of the magic there once was. The two seem like caricatures of Raj-Simran. Much water has flown under the bridge and all that. Yes, nostalgia can, at times, suck. So Gerua can’t be a patch on Sooraj hua maddham. And Shetty can’t a Chopra-Johar be.
Varun overdoes it. SRK is hemmed in, Kajol tries too hard. Pankaj Tripathi, now what is an actor like that doing there? Only one having a good time is Sanjay Mishra. Also, just as an aside, SRK looks great in the stubbly avatar. He should stay unshaven forever.
