Mar 24, 2008 04:54 PM
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BMW makes cars that fly at least 10 feet in the air at the slightest unsolicited contact with another automobile or shrapnel flying from one. RACE therefore begins with a very subtle but powerful message of investigative journalism.
A horse-breeder, his younger brother, two perfect stallions and everyone trying to break the other. Nothing could summarize this "masala" movie better. RACE goes down as one of those many Bollywood movies that have taken a liking to the "conman" theme. Of course, they didn't forget their essentially Indian roots. Therefore, it was a story of two "sautela" brothers, who owned ancestral property in South Africa, trying to outdo the other for 100 Million Dollars. And of course, they had 2 women, with whom both slept(making you want to possess them for a bit so that you could have just as much fun) and both these women are dangerous when it comes to an empty mind on a cold, rainy evening.
Let me give you an interesting point of view. Have you ever imagined how the words "Sau Million" sound? Think of a goonda-looking unshaven Saif Ali Khan holding up his index finger and saying, "Sau Million" in his voice that sounds like words are slipping out of his throat faster than he'd imagined. Something somewhere isn't genuine. Anyway, that's me and my "sau million" fusses.
The basic story is quite interesting. First, they race horses. Then, they race their women. Then, they race against policement. Then, they race cars. I'm simply amazed at the genuine creativity they've shown in naming the movie, "RACE". Who could've thought of that? "Subtle", as it may be, it's quite accurate.
Overall, in spite of the patchy camerawork, the movie stands out from the crowd. Few movies have action sequences with women doing genuine stunts. None, for example, involved the girl jumping buildings and out-running cars in high heels. But of course, in this movie, they'd have to out"fly" cars.
Anil Kapur and a thoroughly useless Sameera Reddy(she wasn't even naked!) make an entry halfway, to propagate the importance of fruit in the diet. They should've been given funnier dialogues otherwise people would generally equate eating of fruit with the expiration of any trace of the funny bone.
The songs are placed evenly to keep those eyes from closing shut when the movie slows down, except for the insanely famous Atif song. I wonder why they didn't show Atif in the movie. There were horses around. He wouldn't have looked out of place. Anyway. Had it not been for the recent insistence on code-mixing, the songs would've been enjoyable. But anyone sitting in the theater is likely to wince at the sight of the seductive moves of Katrina against the background of "Zara Zara touch khiss me khiss me khiss me". What the F** is KHISS? Tell me so I can do it to her.
You could say that this movie is good. But you could also say something like, "Na." It's really a question of preference. For those who like "masala potboilers", this is an ideal watch. For those like me, there's always Katrina.
PS: There's a scene in which Saif Ali Khan returns after racing a horse in torrential rain and ties him up in the stable. He's wearing a semi-see through white-shirt, which isn't wet. But the horse is sopping wet.
PPS: There are several scenes in which sports cars stall dead in their tracks when they pull the handbrake. I tried it on my ride. It didn't so much as slow down. Do I need to get my handbrake fixed?
