Two days before, I happened to catch Dil Bole Hadippa, another crapper of a movie from the Yashraj Stable. I really am at an extreme loss of words to describe it. Don't understand why anyone will on one hand spend crores on such "big" starcast and 50 bucks or so in renting a Hollywood movie(read script), but then will hire the neighborhood Beautician to do the makeup hoping that audience will never notice that Veer and Veera are one and the same. One can be as hammered as one can really get and still be able to tell that its Miss Mukherjee only, that bad is the makeup. Hiding her breasts and making her wear a fake beard doesn't change the fact that she still squeaks, worse than a duck this time.
The story is pretty straightforward, a wannabe cricketer Rani "disguises" as a guy to make her way into some 3rd grade nobody really cares cricket team and play in the Aman cup(seriously dude, you pay your writers money for coming up with such cheesy names and btw when international cricket doesn't help in Aman a local league will really help?, are you freaking kidding me), while Shahid plays the NRI this time around. And surprisingly he doesn't have the word Defeat in his dictionary, don't know what kind of weird dictionaries they sell these days in London. So Shahid , an accomplished county cricketer returns to our beloved Punjab to rescue his Pop's(yashraj lingo) 9 time loosing team against the Pakis. So the movie focuses on how he builds his team, how he woos Rani and ends with the Aman Cup. I won't ruin the ending for you. You'll have to see the movie to see if he manages to break the loosing streak and if the romance survives the pressures of Aman Cup ;-)
There are as usual few side angles to the story. The yearning father(Anupam Kher) who wants his son to settle in India (so innovative huh), Miss Chandigarh. Sherlyn Chopra (she must;ve slept with the whole jury to win the title) trying to score with Shahid (First time in bollywood , pyaar ka tikdam) and some Nautanki owned by Rani's father (The company owned by him puts most of the Broadway companies here in New York to shame). And to accomplish the task of completely turning it into a B grade movie, it also has Rakhi Sawant playing you guessed it right, an Item Girl. I am still not able to understand why all of the so called Item Girls in Bollywood look so ugly(Koena Mitra, theMunnabhai Girl and others). The Dialgues don't help the movie either. They have just picked them from random movies and stitched them all together. Also the scene where Rani tries to speak English is more of an insult towards village folks rather than a comic situation. Who in India starts a conversation in English with a fellow traveling in a truck, specially some village fellow. Its beyond me. There are countless such mistakes throughout the movie. I can probably write a best seller recounting those.
Yashraj Films are still stuck in their 70s mindset. Just like Coca Cola have locked their recipe in some safe, so have Yashraj; Their guaranteed recipe of a Box Office Disaster. Their track record is phenomenal to say the least. Out of 30 odd movies that they;ve produced since DDLJ, only 5 clicked at the box office. Thats a success rate of a measly 16.67%. A job well done. They are mindbogglingly stupid and they think the Indian Audience is the same world over. Not anymore Yashji, not any more.
P.S: The only reason I went through the torture was because the remote was missing and I was too lazy to go and manually change the channel. And I wanted to write another movie review ;-)
The story is pretty straightforward, a wannabe cricketer Rani "disguises" as a guy to make her way into some 3rd grade nobody really cares cricket team and play in the Aman cup(seriously dude, you pay your writers money for coming up with such cheesy names and btw when international cricket doesn't help in Aman a local league will really help?, are you freaking kidding me), while Shahid plays the NRI this time around. And surprisingly he doesn't have the word Defeat in his dictionary, don't know what kind of weird dictionaries they sell these days in London. So Shahid , an accomplished county cricketer returns to our beloved Punjab to rescue his Pop's(yashraj lingo) 9 time loosing team against the Pakis. So the movie focuses on how he builds his team, how he woos Rani and ends with the Aman Cup. I won't ruin the ending for you. You'll have to see the movie to see if he manages to break the loosing streak and if the romance survives the pressures of Aman Cup ;-)
There are as usual few side angles to the story. The yearning father(Anupam Kher) who wants his son to settle in India (so innovative huh), Miss Chandigarh. Sherlyn Chopra (she must;ve slept with the whole jury to win the title) trying to score with Shahid (First time in bollywood , pyaar ka tikdam) and some Nautanki owned by Rani's father (The company owned by him puts most of the Broadway companies here in New York to shame). And to accomplish the task of completely turning it into a B grade movie, it also has Rakhi Sawant playing you guessed it right, an Item Girl. I am still not able to understand why all of the so called Item Girls in Bollywood look so ugly(Koena Mitra, theMunnabhai Girl and others). The Dialgues don't help the movie either. They have just picked them from random movies and stitched them all together. Also the scene where Rani tries to speak English is more of an insult towards village folks rather than a comic situation. Who in India starts a conversation in English with a fellow traveling in a truck, specially some village fellow. Its beyond me. There are countless such mistakes throughout the movie. I can probably write a best seller recounting those.
Yashraj Films are still stuck in their 70s mindset. Just like Coca Cola have locked their recipe in some safe, so have Yashraj; Their guaranteed recipe of a Box Office Disaster. Their track record is phenomenal to say the least. Out of 30 odd movies that they;ve produced since DDLJ, only 5 clicked at the box office. Thats a success rate of a measly 16.67%. A job well done. They are mindbogglingly stupid and they think the Indian Audience is the same world over. Not anymore Yashji, not any more.
P.S: The only reason I went through the torture was because the remote was missing and I was too lazy to go and manually change the channel. And I wanted to write another movie review ;-)
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