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IMPOSSIBLE MOVIE REVIEW |
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Review
by : Harish |
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Starring:
: Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra,
Anupam Kher.
Direction:
Jugal Hansraj
Music:
Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant
Production:
Yash Raj Films |
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A
failed actor turned director
and an upcoming hero cum writer
tries desperately to dish out
the perfect date movie and ends
up giving a half-baked romantic
flick which just doesn’t
click.
This story seems to be inspired
from Akshay Kumar’s part
of ‘Jaan-e-maan’
with a few alterations. The
story of a geek trying to desperately
win over the hottest girl in
college has been done-to-death
in Hollywood but in Bollywood
it’s a rarity. We have
always seen the hero to be the
smart, handsome hunk that can
top-size an entire 18 wheel
truck to save a butterfly but
in this movie the hero is too
afraid to even fight against
a man who has stolen his software.
Now the geek sees his dream
girl once again after 7 long
years in which the dame has
got divorced and has a 6 year
old daughter. Now the geek has
to find a way to finally fight
against his own inhibitions
to get his girl and his software
back. Can he do it? Of course
he can! It’s a Yash Raj
movie for crying out loud. But,
how? Of course, with the usual
Yash Raj cliché ridden
second half it is not big a
surprise there too.
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Uday Chopra has taken this romantic comedy
as his comeback vehicle. Apart from his
two Dhoom movies he hasn’t smelled
success with any other attempts. And when
he has to follow up a Neel-n-Nikki he has
to be doubly careful. As an actor he has
done justice to the role and even the concept
seems quite fine but has failed mainly due
to his dragging-no twist screenplay and
cliché-ridden dialogues which is
also penned by him. The movie might have
been intended to be a cute romantic comedy
but director Jugal Hansraj has concentrated
only on the cuteness part, which after a
point looks overdone and forgone the comedy
which is very essential for such movies.
There is a need for one to overdo some geeky
parts which was somewhat achieved in Jaan-e-mann
but here it seems Uday is just a normal
guy with a weird old spectacles.
There are some scenes which do make you
smile like the ‘Thai-tradition’
dinner scene, or whenever Priyanka tries
to talk to Uday about his or her personal
life. The natural acting by Priyanka and
Uday helps in achieving the cuteness of
many such scenes. But on the other side,
scenes like Uday using a 6 year old’s
school stage performance to tell Priyanka
his version of the story is intolerable.
The movie neither gives much importance
to how and why does Priyanka fall for Uday
nor does Uday use a brilliant way to get
his software back (If its that simple to
put a password to the software why doesn’t
he do it earlier?) And we do miss some twists
in the movie which could have helped to
a large extent.
The brilliant camera work by Santhosh Thundil
and a catchy music and background score
by Salim-Sullaiman gives it a glossy rich
look and feel. But a lethargic work in the
editing table does bite the movie’s
prospects in a big way. The first half is
slow and after a good start even the pace
in the second half slackens. Other cast
members have little to do. The kid does
not impress at all; Dino Morea puts on the
same face from start to finish and it does
little to impress the audience. Anupam Kher
is decent in a role which he has done several
times before, that of a worried and concerned
dad giving worldly advice to his geeky son.
Overall
the movie is a simple plain movie with little
twists and very less comic relief. If properly
done could have made a perfect Valentine
flick.
Verdict:
A romantic comedy with little romance and
no comedy.
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