A Movie not worth watching Dobaara!!

When the trailer to ‘Once upon a time in Mumbai Dobaara’  was released, it seemed that the sequel will not be as good as the original  Devgn-Hashmi Flicker. The Movie has just proved it loud and clear. Yes, the movie had some heavy lines…rather many, but you can’t make a great movie out of just heavy one-liners and no action worth it. Original was good with the craft, story line and dialogues with a sense of originality, but much of that all lacks here.  Though on part of actors, all of them have done a fair job. Akshay Kumar seemed committed to perform what his script writer said. Though he has been given too many dialogues to tell that yes he is a villain, but too little action for a villain dreaded by whole country.

The movie starts decently, first half has been good. Shoaib (Akshay Kumar) comes back to Mumbai 12 years later to settle his differences with his lone enemy Rawal (Mahesh Manjarekar) for not falling in line like other crooks.  By now, He has found in Aslam (Imran Khan) a fan of himself who can give his life for his chief. There also is an innocent Kashmiri girl Jasmine (Sonakshi Sinha) who has come from Kashmir to work as an actress in a movie. Shoaib after meeting her is so impressed that he manages ‘Most Beautiful New Face of the year Award’ in a Cine Award function for her, while her movie has not yet released.  Yet it does not click to Jasmine that things are going in what direction. Jasmine with her innocence feels that Shoaib is just an aquaitance and nothing more while she is falling in love with Aslam.  A typical Bollywood love triangle which with some melodrama makes it more of a movie with central theme as love than thrill & action.

The movie significantly lacks action and has failed to exploit the talent of its actors. Sonakshi has charmed with acting, while Imran has also improved from his previous ones. Akshay Kumar has done a fine job, but he certainly could have done better with some action while the script writer gave him hardly any. Background score is loud and good. 'Tyeb Ali Jaan ka Dushman..’ is delighting to watch Dobaara though the ‘Haai Haai’ in the song certainly is well deserved for most of the second half which is poor.

Watch it only if you feel like, it can be watched once but certainly not Dobaara!!

Chennai Express-ed

I was ready steady Po to go for Chennai Express. Bad reviews are sometimes ingredients of success. At least for this film, from anything to everything worked. Film has already garnered 100 Crore Rs. in 3 days owing to Eid and no other substitutes. But despite all that, Film certainly has something which attracts.

This is a first movie with such an experiment of freely using Tamil to the audience majority of which might not have understood even a single word of it. But such is the power of emotions, expressions and as film says it, Love, that at least to me Film was understandable and everything regarding linguistic experiment seemed right.

Shahrukh, even after seeing so many movies of yours, i found something new in this and yes the developments are good. For most of the time and story, you know what makes you famous and you keep on repeating it. There are reminders of your previous movies and many inspiration to make the film light. But overall you've done a good job and more importantly, i can see that soon you will be replacing Amitabh Bachchan in voice overs.