Aug 08, 2014 01:27 PM
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In Hollywood we have seen many great movies featuring a dog in a salient role. The viewers have witnessed many dog based films in form of animation, action, emotional and comical films. Earlier in our Hindi films, dogs were used only as a source of comic relief or for an emotional scene. Yash Chopra's produced film'Noorie' could be termed as one of the first successful films featuring a dog in a pivotal role followed by Jackie Shroff starrer film'Teri Meherbaniyan'. Along with these films, we did witness dogs essaying important roles in many films like'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun', 'Mard', 'Bol Radha Bol', 'Chillar Party', 'Maa' and few more. Akshay Kumar starrer film'Entertainment' too, features a wonder dog, Junior, in a significant role and promises to be at par with the title of the film. The promos seemed a bit loud and over the top humor, but, with some good witty one liners attached to it. So let's find out, whether'Entertainment' will provide us a good dose of entertainment with the help of its witty writing or might end up being a product of badly executed film by debutant directors.
Story:
'Entertainment' film is a story about Akhil(Akshay Kumar), who keeps doing odd jobs to support his livelihood. One fine day, he discovers that he is the illegitimate child of a multi millionaire Pannalal Johri(Dalip Tahil). But before Akhil could inherit his father's property, he comes to know that it's already been transferred in the name of his father's loyal dog Entertainment(Junior). Akhil along with the help of his friend Jugnu(Krushna Abhishek) decides to seek back his property by all means. What happens next is what the entire film is all about.
Screenplay & Technicalities:
The one liner story idea seems interesting and funny, too. The movie starts with good time-pass moments but as it keeps progressing the screenplay starts to drag with back to back unwanted and over the top scenes. Though, one would love the scenes where Akshay Kumar appears as a fat man, Akshay Kumar's interaction with film celebrities, the bonding scenes between Akshay Kumar and the dog followed by the superb reference of film actors made by Krushna Abhishek in every scene of his. But, besides these enjoyable scenes there are back to back miserably gone wrong scenes starting with Akshay meeting Mithun Chakraborty, the whole trying to kill dog tricks chapter, Prakash Raj and Sonu Sood ill treating the dog followed by Akshay Kumar saving them from the dogs, Akshay's weak aping of Mehmood's classic horror scene act, climax chase and many more. Almost every scene contains forced comical one liners which after a while fails to even get a smile on your face. The film references work brilliantly in Krushna Abhishek's scenes, but in the rest of the places, goes over the top, especially in Prakash Raj-Sonu Sood scenes after which I doubt if you would ever watch Shah Rukh Khan-Salman Khan's film'Karan Arjun'. The predictable and stagnant screenplay ruins the whole impact of the film along with bad execution. The camera work is terrible and all the special effects scenes were weak and matched to the level of B-grade television serials.
Music & Direction:
Music by Sachin Jigar works only in two songs -'Jhonny Jhonny' and'Veerey Di Wedding'.'Teri Mahima Aprampar' could have been more funnier. Atif Aslam songs like'Tera Naam Doon' and'Nahi Who Saamne' were totally unwanted.
Debutant director duo Sajid-Farhad saves some of brilliant one liners for their film but fails to extract the same from their direction work. Their intentions may be good about making a clean family film with a full mixture of comedy, drama, emotion and action indulged in it, but fails to execute it with total conviction level. Their control over the flow of the film is very weak and thus at times the film goes overboard and matches up with the insanity level of films like'Humshakals' and few more masala entertainers. Sajid-Farhad should've stuck to their writing part and let some sensible director act as the captain of the ship, due to which maybe, this movie would have ended on a better note.
Performances:
Akshay Kumar looks good and is great in his one liner comic avatar. Sadly, his character has nothing new nor interesting to offer, due to which he ends up on a stagnant note. Tamannaah Bhatia has more length in her name than in her character in the film. She reminds you of her terrible performances in films like'Himmatwala' and'Humshakals'. Krushna Abhishek is the best among all others, even in the worst situations his comic one liners work brilliantly and adds an instant smile on your face. Johnny Lever is good in his role and we need to see more of this talented actor. Mithun Chakraborty, Sonu Sood and Prakash Raj are fine in their parts. Special appearances by Riteish Deshmukh, Remo D'Souza, Shreyas Talpade, Sajid-Farhad and Hiten Tejwani were entertaining. Junior the wonder dog is cute and charming.
So bol meri "FILMI KHOPDI" iss film mein kitna hain Dum?
Dum? Well the movie starts with good dum along with some fun, but as it progresses, the dum and fun seems to slide downwards and ends up on a disappointing note. The kids might love the dog track, but rest others will have a hard time digesting the insanity happening in the film. At the time of promo launch, animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, supported this film, saying that no animals were harmed in this film. Well, after watching this movie would love to ask her, 'What about the human rights?', as'Entertainment' movie harms them mercilessly with the level of idiocy attached to it in the name of entertainment.
