Sep 22, 2012 02:29 AM
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Went for this with lots of expectations especially after being pleasantly surprised by the awesomeness of BARFI seen the other day; and I was very disappointed indeed. This Madhur Bhandarkar movie came as a big let down, the script being the sore point. Madhur has tried too hard to show the glamour world , in the end being too stereotypical of a director who has always rocked with hard hitting, "exposing the under belly movies" in the form of page 3, Chandni bar, fashion ! The movie falls terribly in the area of keeping the audience hooked to the cinema for even short periods of time and a lot of people could be seen chatting n fiddling with their cell phones even during highly emotional scenes. It is slow, and stretched. Kareena Kapoor manages to save the blushes with a bold performance which was gutsy and emotionally demanding.
Almost the entire movie she could be seen with puffed up red eyes, swollen face and "struggling with her life" emotions. Her character "Mahi Arora" wears a sullen, defeated, insecure , look all the time with lots of high decibel scenes from her so much so that at the end of it all, you just want this to end and go home ! Kareena may have done her best work but the script lets her down. Among other large ensemble cast, hooda is good and ranvir shorey manages to impress in his cameo. The trailer had almost all the decent scenes. "The Dirty Picture" or "Fashion" worked along with brilliant performances , they had a good story to back them up, not this time. At 2.5 hrs, its too long for a madhur film. All in all this "HALKAT JAWANI" fails to stir up the hormones.
Hope this was just a minor blip from the great director ! Better njoy the sweet taste of BARFI again than to venture out for this one !!!
