Aug 21, 2004 06:51 PM
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(Updated Aug 21, 2004 06:58 PM)
????Kyun! ho gaya na????
What kind of title is that???? Should have taken the title as a warning and stayed at home
but then good sense does not prevail at all times and one has to pay.
Ideally the less said about a bad experience the better...but 31/2 hours of extreme torture and 220 rupee tickets lead to all sorts of pent up emotions which have to be given a vent for posterity.
Vivek Oberoi is good and getting better. No words are needed to describe Amitabh Bachchan's acting off course. Acting to him is as effortless as breathing but why he would choose to do an almost cameo in a script which didn't require one is a big mystery.
Sunil Shetty and half the supporting cast are vestigial (just like half the scenes, songs, the story and the movie off course).
Guess the director wasn't banking on just the Vivek-Aishwarya pair to draw the crowds.
He was quite right too since their chemistry is striking in all its glorious absence.
Aishwarya Rai should just stick to what she is good at...modelling. She obviously hasn't moved on from it nor does she know the difference between the two.
Her expression when she is mouthing her dialogues, which are few and far in between and
only when both the director and she remember that she is still in the movie, would want one to hand her a bottle of Isabgol and tell her to take a hike (a long one at that).
It seems almost an insult to have her on the same sets as with demi-gods like Amitabh.
The director has borrowed liberally (scene to scene actually)
from ''Hum Dil De Shuke Sanam'',''Hum Aapke Hain Kaun'', ''Maine Pyaar kiya''..etc.
Shankar Mahadevan & co's music sounds like music from the classic ''Fiddler on the Roof''
but I could be mistaken here.
This senselessly hopeless awful story could have been handled differently and with more emotion.
(but then it wouldn't have remained senselessly hopeless and awful...see what reviewing
such a movie does to you :) )
There is no flow or reason apparent in the story telling. The car racing scene and the taglines mouthed by Vivek hint at a different parallel story line which never happens.
The cinematography is about the only thing which is good and almost breathtaking at times.
To some it all up ....
''Kyun Ho Gaya na'' is like poetry of ''Azgoths of Kria'', which caused four of its listeners to die of internal haemorrhaging at the same time causing the reciter's large intestine to leap through his neck and throttle his brain, in Douglas Adams cult book ''Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy''.
(Oops did I just insult the ''Azgoths''!)
''Do Panic''