Mar 30, 2006 12:18 AM
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(Updated Mar 30, 2006 12:21 AM)
The movie is a failed attempt by the director Rakesh Mehra to make a hard hitting movie. Its about the young urban yuppie crowd and all that goes around with them. The director attempted for a realistic hard hitting movie, but it still carries the baggage of Bollywood, which is the bane of our movies.
The first half blows you away. Why not for a change you don't see a hero and heroine running around the bushes, hero bashing up 100+ people without any help. RDB shows real people, having fun, talking like any of us in college, hanging out in a lounge bar... In short, the first half tugs at your heart and makes you nostalgic. There ends the story in the second half the director is completely clueless and did not know how to handle the subject. It is two slow and you would be sitting on the edge of the seat waiting for something to happen. What ever happens its nothing but exciting. The climax spoiled what ever the impact the first half had left. Lets get to some of the blunders
1) Too much happens too soon in the second half. While the first half was painstakingly crafted with so much attention to detail, the second half was rushed. Since when did the commandos go out on shooting spree with out any warnings..
2)How can a college student shoot a person from a running bike unless he is well trained? If it were a normal Bollywood movie, I would not pop this question. But in the first half I was led to believe that this movie is closer to life. So, logic
becomes important in this context. The second half jars in contrast to the first.
3) Also, the resolution of conflict (resorting to violence and self-sacrifice yada yada) is very clichéd. I'd have liked to see some innovation there, instead of the 'let's milk their emotions' pseudo-sentimental, regressive trash.
4) Rahman sucks with his background score. He came up with some nice numbers all right but BG score is not his forte and never will be. You can't disagree with me there.
The list goes on..
