Sajid khan attempts directing a comedy film and succeeds upto a certain extent.
The first half of the film is rank bad ,and the attempts at humour are pathetic.
Akshay Kumar brings bad luck to everyone .......and walks with a sad face throughout the film.
The film tries to convert this into some funny situations and fails.
Example-- Akshay telling about his birth ,after which his father is diagnosed with cancer ,but it turns out to be diabetes ( ? ! ),so ,in happiness his mother gives him sweets ( or something like that ,i forgot ) ,due to which he dies due to hyperglycemia ( high sugar level ) !!
Are we really supposed to laugh at this ?
To make the situation more ' funny ' ,there is Ritesh Deshmukh ,a Marathi , who has married Lara Dutta , a Gujarati ,whose father Boman Irani refuses to keep relations with her for marrying against his wishes.
For this perfidy , the father's overweight mother beats him with a cane.
We are told that this happens daily
Akshay eventually lands up with Deepika Padukone whose name is Soundarya Bassapa Rao ,also called Sandy ........but Akshay calls her Saaaandy ( as in Saand )
But Akshay is now confronted with her older brother Arjun Rampal ,an ultra-tough ,sophisticated ,polished anti-terrorism officer ..........but he is called anna ( south Indian style )!!
So much for some part of the first half.......
The audience actually sarcastically clapped at the interval to show how much they ' liked ' all this .
The film actually picked up in the second half ,when there were some genuinely funny moments.......and some emotional ones too......
Jiah khan tries to give us the hots by exposing ( teeny weeny bikini and all ),but she is overweight ( though some people with peculiar tastes......sutradharji ,for example.......remember shilpa shirodkar ........ may find the bulging ramparts of her body sexciting ), and so is her father ( in the film ) Randheer Kapoor , who also looks sozzled.
Lara Dutta and Deepika expose too , and look good in some scenes.
Boman Irani is funny , as usual .
The situations in which he sees Akshay and Ritesh in ' compromising ' positions due to which he thinks that they are homos , are well developed ........though of course , they are inspired by the more famous Shah Rukh- Saif situations in ' Kal ho na ho '..........though those itself are inspired by the scenes acted out so memorably by Michail Caine in 'Blame in on Rio '.
The film being better in the second half , we come out of the theater feeling satisfied upto a certain extent.
This is in contrast to a film like ' Singh is king ' , which is good in the first half , but we have not-so-great impression of the film because it does not work in the second half.
This film should serve as a lesson to film-makers .....that if they don't have it within them to make both halves of a film good , then they would better make the second half better , so that the audience leaves satisfied !!
The first half of the film is rank bad ,and the attempts at humour are pathetic.
Akshay Kumar brings bad luck to everyone .......and walks with a sad face throughout the film.
The film tries to convert this into some funny situations and fails.
Example-- Akshay telling about his birth ,after which his father is diagnosed with cancer ,but it turns out to be diabetes ( ? ! ),so ,in happiness his mother gives him sweets ( or something like that ,i forgot ) ,due to which he dies due to hyperglycemia ( high sugar level ) !!
Are we really supposed to laugh at this ?
To make the situation more ' funny ' ,there is Ritesh Deshmukh ,a Marathi , who has married Lara Dutta , a Gujarati ,whose father Boman Irani refuses to keep relations with her for marrying against his wishes.
For this perfidy , the father's overweight mother beats him with a cane.
We are told that this happens daily
Akshay eventually lands up with Deepika Padukone whose name is Soundarya Bassapa Rao ,also called Sandy ........but Akshay calls her Saaaandy ( as in Saand )
But Akshay is now confronted with her older brother Arjun Rampal ,an ultra-tough ,sophisticated ,polished anti-terrorism officer ..........but he is called anna ( south Indian style )!!
So much for some part of the first half.......
The audience actually sarcastically clapped at the interval to show how much they ' liked ' all this .
The film actually picked up in the second half ,when there were some genuinely funny moments.......and some emotional ones too......
Jiah khan tries to give us the hots by exposing ( teeny weeny bikini and all ),but she is overweight ( though some people with peculiar tastes......sutradharji ,for example.......remember shilpa shirodkar ........ may find the bulging ramparts of her body sexciting ), and so is her father ( in the film ) Randheer Kapoor , who also looks sozzled.
Lara Dutta and Deepika expose too , and look good in some scenes.
Boman Irani is funny , as usual .
The situations in which he sees Akshay and Ritesh in ' compromising ' positions due to which he thinks that they are homos , are well developed ........though of course , they are inspired by the more famous Shah Rukh- Saif situations in ' Kal ho na ho '..........though those itself are inspired by the scenes acted out so memorably by Michail Caine in 'Blame in on Rio '.
The film being better in the second half , we come out of the theater feeling satisfied upto a certain extent.
This is in contrast to a film like ' Singh is king ' , which is good in the first half , but we have not-so-great impression of the film because it does not work in the second half.
This film should serve as a lesson to film-makers .....that if they don't have it within them to make both halves of a film good , then they would better make the second half better , so that the audience leaves satisfied !!