Dec 22, 2010 05:05 PM
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(Updated Dec 22, 2010 11:56 PM)
In her third outing as a director, Farah Khan, seems to have lost her midas touch. TMK, a screwball farce about a conman conning pretty much everyone around him is neither funny nor clever. Akshay Kumar plays a conman with great elan, while Katrina looks hot but lacks any sense of comic timing. The only surprise is Akshay Khanna who manages to make the best of the very little that is offered to him. He is definitely one of the most underrated talents in Bollywood.
Plot spoiler alert
The plot revolves around Tees Maar Khan(aka Half RobinHood), who has his eyes set on robbing a heavily guarded train carrying valuable antiques. He devises a plan to set up a fake film crew in a village with himself as the director and convinces film star Atish Kapoor (who has his eyes set on nothing less than an Oscar - a sidesplitting brilliant Akshay Khanna), and a bunch of naive villagers to pretend as freedom fighters to block and loot the approaching train. This leads to one of the funniest scenes in the movie involving a famous patriotic song playing in the background while the villagers go about robbing the train, completely unaware they are accomplices in TMK's heist.
There are enough potshots about bollywood's obsession with 'dumbdog millionaire' and Oscars.This is a movie free of pretentionsand it takes pride in being the silliest movie of the year. But being silly can still be fun but here's where Farah's movie falls flat. The plot is wafer thin and the humour is very weak and may appeal to children under 12. It is very likely you feel conned after watching this film, as we all know Farah is capable of top notch entertainment(I've watched Main Hoon Naa atleast thrice!)
TMK offers a few giggles here and there and thankfully Farah keeps the running time short and we are spared not having to waste anymore of our precious time. By the end you feel the director herself had conned us, the viewers, by making a movie which is a complete farce from beginning to end and sadly doesn't rise to deliver anything exciting. You know things are not looking well, when the guy sitting in front of you at the cinema is busy playing 'Angry Birds' on his Ipod.
Bring back the colorful musical dramas Farah, we love them!
