Garam Masala – Thanda Paani?. Review on Garam Masala

I will not waste too much time writing about this movie; it’s not even worth few minutes of your time. But write, I will – because, my fellow brethren, you should save your time & money.

Well, the moment I came out of the movie, I felt a bit dazed, a vee-bit confused and strongly felt cheated of my Rs.340 (cost for tickets for my wife & me). Priyadarshan seems to have made the movie with only one objective – separate people from their hard-earned money. The movie is perhaps also designed for the Multiplexes in malls in cities. People get there to just catch up with some movie. The other reason perhaps is to attract the women folk – put in two eye-candies like John & Akshay (for younger & middle-aged women respectively?).

Story/ Plot – where is it?

The whole story / plot (if there is one, that is!) revolves around multi-timing girls and maintaining lies. The entire movie lacks connectivity – you don’t know why someone is coming or going or doing something. The humor (?!) is so slap-stick and forced that it only inspired a yawn at best. I was really wondering why some in the audience were laughing – was it the thought of being made fools over a weekend? Was it the fear of coming out of a comic flick without laughing and therefore, no paisa-wasool? God knows!

The editing is terrible here – there is no proper continuation in many scenes. Well, in one, John rolls over a sofa and one can see the microphone transmitter stuck to the backside of his trouser! Mr. Priyadarshan, you must have either gone blind or have become a mentally lazy person and let the editing supervision alone and in the hands of an amateur.

One doesn’t know where the company they work in – Garam Masala – goes after the initial few minutes. Further, one keeps wondering whatever John does for a living after he returns from the US. Another thing is, you can’t really digest the fact that none of the girls living in different rooms in the same house can hear what is happening in the living room – are they all deaf?

Great bluff – Akshay Kumar’s employer in the movie – landlord never bothers to visit the place to check on how it is being “taken care of”. Nice to have such landlords, na?

There is good attempt to fool the audience by trying to pass off a shopping mall as the airport. Further, all ‘airhostesses’ (supposedly from different airlines) have the same set of travel bags – how’s that for a coincidence? Perhaps they got a group discount without evenasmuch knowing each other! Somewhere, there seems to be an attempt to convey that airhostesses are easy and are bimbos.

The Cast:

Well, most of the cast is wasted. You know Akshay and John performed well when they had good directors. The passable performances come from Paresh Rawal (who is completely wasted) and Akshay. John looks like he’s having a party and that there is no job do be done. The three four women (Riimi Sen, Daisy, Neetu, Nargis) – I don’t know or care who’s the heroine – are just glam dolls with no substance. Not a single character is well formed in the movie and many characters come and go and we really don’t know why. At some point of time, you start ignoring it as it becomes too much for you to handle.

Direction:

If there such a thing like direction in this movie, I could have written about it. Let me save my brain & fingers!

Conclusion:

Let’s tell Priyadarshan that we’re not fools. Let’s not spend money on a drab flick at a movie theatre when it is not even worth watching it on a pirated video. In comparison, a film like No Entry was much more fun to watch. Yes, you don’t use your brains there too; however, overall it was good time-pass.

Advice:

Don’t waste your money, friends.