Feb 21, 2007 12:31 AM
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Eklavya – the so called royal guardhas broken my wifey’s heart like anything – I mean “the movie” has – until now right like me she was a hard core VVC(Vidhu Vinod Chopra) fan, for his grandness related to movie sets, cast, music etc. I still remember watching all his movies back to back and never actually found out the reason why some of them didn’t worked on the box office, but that wouldn’t leave me out of the theatres not watching them. But I don’t know why in Eklavya – we could find nothing at all and when I say nothing at all – I exactly mean nothing at all. I actually felt cheated by a 1000/- bucks I spent on the movie.
People have been defying gravity and writing their own laws of Newton’s and likes and what not these days in bollywood – examples Krrish and Dhoom2 – I believe VVC wanted to take his revenge from these directors so he thought lets defy historyif not something else. He out rightly changed the history and taught us a new lesson that Eklavya – the one we knew was wrong and his Eklavya is right. Wow, what a message. Times are changing for sure in India.
All he has done is- taken some old worn out haveily on rent for a couple of weeks, didn’t even bothered to paint it or clean it as that’s exactly what he wanted to show in the movie, just did some interior works of 4 rooms and shot the full movie in them, I mean come on guys look at the size of the rooms? Did you felt anything grand about it? What kind of Rana would live in those stuffy kindda rooms? Do you remember Reima Sen’s room and her bed? Wasn’t it a 6’ 3’ bed? I mean the princess will sleep in that kind of cot? I don’t think so. Please correct me if I am wrong.
The only good thing about the movie is its length, the Big B and Munna Bhai goes to America’s trailer. That’s about it.
Movie has a couple of good moments too- with Sanju baba and the stunt done for him by Eklavya, Saif’s couple of shots, Jimmy Shergil’s attitude, Jackie and his frustration for some fraction of minutes, helpless as well as hapless Boman and gorgeous Sharmila Tagore, waiting to be laid Vidya Balan, crazy Reima Sen, that’s all this movie has in store for anybody looking forward to it. With a beaten to death story on all news papers and on MS too – I wouldn’t like to tell anything in here as its very much clear in the very first 10 minutes of the movie that it is going the same way you predict it to be. I even got a forwarded message telling the full story of the movie in 5 lines – unfortunately I got it this morning whereas I saw it yesterday.
The story can be summarized in a Para, that the modern Eklavya is our own Big B – who is the Royal Guard of his Rana(Boman Irani) who happens to beimpotent and hence our royal guards offers his seed to the queen, which comes out to be their twins(Saif and Reima), it’s a well guarded secret, till the queen is on the death bed, she writes the secret to Saif in a letter but the rana realizes it, hence kills her, the crazy sisters is a witness to the same, Saif realizes that his original father(Eklavya) would be killed by rana and gives the supari of Rana to his uncle and his son(Jackie and Jimmy), and Eklavya kills them in revenge of his rana’s death and later unites with Saif – sanju baba being DSP of the area saves them from trouble as he is a gentleman in his own form and respects Eklavya like his own father. That’s it. What else you want in a 100 minutes movie?
There are a couple of flawsI noticed in the movie that the money plant on the roof where the kite flying was going on was fake and you can easily see that there were a couple of leaves missing, Sanjay Dutts earrings were like clipped to his ears and his ears were not pierced for the same(why wud he do that for a 10 minutes obligation?), When rana kills his rani, he is on the right side of the bed whereas in flash back he is shown killing her from the left side etc.
I sincerely fail to understand why in the world VVC made this movie first of all and even if he did why he has to be in so much of hurry to make it? I am sure about one thing that he finished it in 2 weeks and in 4 rooms with a couple of dingy sets. The only grand thing about the movie is its background score, which is haunting at times and great too, there are a couple of shots wherein the music is damn good – the one where the train comes in suddenly and the second is where big B throws Jackie on to a moving train, the theatre shot where big B kills Jimmy Shergil, Sanju’s entry and exit, the pigeon scene, very less shots are worthy of a remembrance. Only one song that too ignorable.
But this was a good watch right before the shopping mall opens to the full bloom as we went to buy cloths for our little princess and realized that the mall was yet to open and by the time we finished the movie, Mc Donald’s did started serving and all cloths showrooms were open too, again my favorite aloo tikki burger with double cheese was worth it and French fries were good too.
My recommendation:Do not go near a theatre for this week and I am sure it would be out of halls within the next 5 days as its already running to empty halls and practically there is nothing at all to watch in this one, but keep looking forward to the next big thing – Nishabd.
Ratings and Comments are more than welcome as always.
