Much ado about nothing. Review on Halla Bol

I was reading the book “Zen in the Art of Writing” and it tells thatas a writer the thing I need to do the most is to write.

Now what didn’t work for me:Stereotypical one dimensional black and white characters- the characters of the film were outdated, the dialogues lengthy and monotonous and situations very predictable and repetitive.

Sameer Khan who is drunk with his success and has no remorse when heis insensitively hurts his wife or relatives; suddenly changes by an incident.We never know his journey. We never know why this “black and white” change was.There is no place where we see a human with his human emotions and fears. Thereis either an b** who is full with his success and power and happilyexploits women or we see this holy saint who can go to any length to havejustice for a girl who was not related to him in any way but a momentary acquaintance.

The wife Sneha is the holly courageous woman who is against herhusband when he is bad, and joins him when he is good. She is flawless, virtuous. We never see even a glimpse of her life. We don’t know if thissuccess of her husband has affected her in any way. What does she do when he ison shootings? Does her lifestyle has also changed! Nothing!

Siddhu is the courageous bandit who turns to theatre when he sees aperformance of Harishchandra. Like a God, he protects victimised people. Hecomes to Sameer’s rescue whenever he needs him. His speeches are long andmonotonous. He talks about justice all the time, but we never see him having adrop of remorse on the life he led. He must have killed innocent people! Or washe the Robin Hood!

Plot was very contrived.

The film is about an actor Sameer Khan who makes it in Bombay FilmIndustry the hard way. When the film starts he is at the height of hispopularity. He is drunk with the illusions that his success will never last andhas become promiscuous. He is not faithful to his Guru Siddhu, his father orhis wife.

One night in a party he witnesses a murder of an air hostess Rashmiwho had come in the party with her sister Ritu. The murderers are the sons of apolitician and a business tycoon.

As his conscience is not letting him live peacefully de decides toopen his mouth against the injustice. After long trials and errors the publicstarts to support him and the criminals have to face the consequences. The goodwins, the bad is punished.Third act-

The only question here is “Do we buy his?” I don’t knowabout others but this romantic story of a hero who goes out of his way to standby a virtue and goes through the ordeals, stands by his moral and latereverything lost gets restored and he gets much more, is not digestible to me. The most original “Dhamaki” of Hindi Film Industry “Agali baar main puchunga nahi ki bathroom kithar hai?”