Directed by : Farah Khan
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461132/
Farah Khan-Shahrukh jodi fails this time, still watchable for Deepika and supporting cast.
Read at your own risk, there maybe spoilers ahead.. (as if it matters )
The opening scene of a dance competition, a wide camera shot of event with some great visuals that attract you and then move to the flashback, introduction scene of Shahrukh who spoofs his own hit dialogues and now you come to the understanding that Happy New Year here onwards should be seen without any kind of expectations of Main Hoon Naa or Om Shanti Om (atleast its first half was entertaining) from Farah.
The movie is about losers named Charlie (Shahrukh Khan), Nandu (Abhishek Bachchan), Tammy (Boman Irani), Rohan (Vivaan Shah), Jag (Sonu Sood) who plan to take revenge of the betrayal Charlie’s father (Anupam Kher) face by Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff). Their plan is to execute the biggest diamond heist ever in world for which they have to enter a World Dance Championship and thereby need Mohini (Deepika Padukone), a bar dancer to help them reach main stage at the most so that they can steal the diamonds and run away without giving a damn about dance competition.
The story is in no-way exciting, and then the time Farah takes to move to the heist sequences doesn’t help either.
All the 5 losers are given a special intro-sequence and surprisingly only Nandu one worked for me to certain extent.
Its hard to understand why do our film-makers believe in slow-motioning a shirtless guy (mostly salman, in this film’s case shahrukh) or in case of actresses when they wear bikini or some similar kind of shots. Makes me think that either the director is a big time perv or is of opinion that majority of indians are like that.
Then there’s a irritating cameo of Sajid Khan whose scene made me actually think if that is how he in real directs his own films.
Logically (avoid reading this paragraph if hny = watch without logic for you), there’s certain things that will come to mind, main one is how come Charan Grover never notice the duplicate of his son Vicky Grover i.e Nandu roaming around in dance competition. Then, why does Charlie need Mohini to train them in dance or even forget that why did they even need to practice if during audition round he was going to get selected with that blackmail video and Rohan was there to hack votes for next round. They actually never needed to give any importance to dance. Another imp blunder was, why didnt they steal the diamonds by entering to the place directly where Jag goes to change oxygen and water pipes. Oh wait, one more is there.. in entire movie we are shown how bad the 5 losers dance and yet Farah being a choreographer didn’t want his losers to go away from dance competition losing. Forget 3rd position or runner-up, she makes them win the competition…Sigh.
But But But… Farah’s touch is visible in quite a few scenes, like the Damini spoof or Mohini’s hilarious 6 minute (or was it 7) speech lifted from Chak de or the reaction of Mohini when Charlie speaks a long english dialogue about her beauty with a great sense of humor or when Nandu has to remove his clothes to reach out a point on top of a wall, or when Tammy sarcastically answers Charlie ‘I am the king of the world’ when Charlie asks him if he remembers a dialogue of Titanic, and of course the main heist at the end which was easily the best moment of movie.
Vishal Shekhar’s music for a change didn’t work here, with film they were definitely good to ears but none is gonna stay in memory for too long. Farah tries way too hard to make ‘Indiawaale' look very patriotic but it turns out to be pretty mediocre. While 'Manva Laage' is a Shreya song that would easily put me to sleep with a deja vu of her umpteen old songs. ‘Lovely’ also doesn’t work except for its tunes. The song that I loved was ‘Satakli’ specially the line ‘raadhe raadhe bolo jai kanhaiyaa laal ki’ and Sukhwinder Singh’s voice, he should be asked to sing one song for Shahrukh in every film.
The background score was decent, except for that unwanted theme used where Charlie fights Korean guy.
In performances.. Shahrukh disappoints, except for some moments like ‘horny’, ‘english lines to Mohini’, he over-acted a lot specially scenes where he had to show his anger. Not to forget that irritating ‘kismet kutti cheez hai’ line which I lost count of how many times he repeats. I think he has reached a age where atleast to me he won’t appeal anymore in these masala movies. Either he has to do total romantic film (like JTHJ) or hatke movies (like CDI) or negative roles (like Don2).
Deepika Padukone is so lovable in the movie, despite again having a weird diction. It was great to see her shine so well in comical scenes one after another with such comfort, even her mannerisms were perfect. And good that her emotional scenes were very few. She looks simply Wow in that Indiawaale outfit, even the Chammiya one.
Abhishek looked like to be so much enjoying this role, which was quite impressing even though it was just a supporting role. While Sonu Sood except for the overdose of body exposure, did well in both serious and comical situations. And loved Boman Irani’s child at heart yet a matured guy character, plus his dialogue delivery. Infact all three of them were real jaan of movie after Deepika.
Feel bad for Vivaan Shah, after 7 Khoon Maaf I never expected him to be doing a Farah Khan movie and he hardly has anything in the movie to speak of. Wonder how Naseeruddin Shah would had felt about his choice of film.
Jackie Shroff is good in villain role, though his character isn’t given much screen time unfortunately.
Among Special appearances, it was surprising to see Dino Morea from the days when he used to try his hand at lead roles unsuccessfully and now doing a anchor role at a dance competition. But not as surprising as it was to see Anurag Kashyap play a gay character, I mean what on earth made him accept the role, for a person who is either associated with hard-hitting movies or sarcastic humor at best. This was definitely quite un-expected for me.
And it was first of a kind to see a special appearance credited as ‘Emotional Apperance’ for Anupam Kher, whatever that meant.
Happy New Year is tolerable unlike Chennai Express, whether you like Shahrukh or not (I didnt) you most likely will like performances of Deepika and the supporting cast. There will be some entertaining moments and the final heist scene to enjoy.
And if you are interested, then there’s a lovely Abram shot in the final end credit sequence.
Verdict : 2.5/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461132/
Farah Khan-Shahrukh jodi fails this time, still watchable for Deepika and supporting cast.
Read at your own risk, there maybe spoilers ahead.. (as if it matters )
The opening scene of a dance competition, a wide camera shot of event with some great visuals that attract you and then move to the flashback, introduction scene of Shahrukh who spoofs his own hit dialogues and now you come to the understanding that Happy New Year here onwards should be seen without any kind of expectations of Main Hoon Naa or Om Shanti Om (atleast its first half was entertaining) from Farah.
The movie is about losers named Charlie (Shahrukh Khan), Nandu (Abhishek Bachchan), Tammy (Boman Irani), Rohan (Vivaan Shah), Jag (Sonu Sood) who plan to take revenge of the betrayal Charlie’s father (Anupam Kher) face by Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff). Their plan is to execute the biggest diamond heist ever in world for which they have to enter a World Dance Championship and thereby need Mohini (Deepika Padukone), a bar dancer to help them reach main stage at the most so that they can steal the diamonds and run away without giving a damn about dance competition.
The story is in no-way exciting, and then the time Farah takes to move to the heist sequences doesn’t help either.
All the 5 losers are given a special intro-sequence and surprisingly only Nandu one worked for me to certain extent.
Its hard to understand why do our film-makers believe in slow-motioning a shirtless guy (mostly salman, in this film’s case shahrukh) or in case of actresses when they wear bikini or some similar kind of shots. Makes me think that either the director is a big time perv or is of opinion that majority of indians are like that.
Then there’s a irritating cameo of Sajid Khan whose scene made me actually think if that is how he in real directs his own films.
Logically (avoid reading this paragraph if hny = watch without logic for you), there’s certain things that will come to mind, main one is how come Charan Grover never notice the duplicate of his son Vicky Grover i.e Nandu roaming around in dance competition. Then, why does Charlie need Mohini to train them in dance or even forget that why did they even need to practice if during audition round he was going to get selected with that blackmail video and Rohan was there to hack votes for next round. They actually never needed to give any importance to dance. Another imp blunder was, why didnt they steal the diamonds by entering to the place directly where Jag goes to change oxygen and water pipes. Oh wait, one more is there.. in entire movie we are shown how bad the 5 losers dance and yet Farah being a choreographer didn’t want his losers to go away from dance competition losing. Forget 3rd position or runner-up, she makes them win the competition…Sigh.
But But But… Farah’s touch is visible in quite a few scenes, like the Damini spoof or Mohini’s hilarious 6 minute (or was it 7) speech lifted from Chak de or the reaction of Mohini when Charlie speaks a long english dialogue about her beauty with a great sense of humor or when Nandu has to remove his clothes to reach out a point on top of a wall, or when Tammy sarcastically answers Charlie ‘I am the king of the world’ when Charlie asks him if he remembers a dialogue of Titanic, and of course the main heist at the end which was easily the best moment of movie.
Vishal Shekhar’s music for a change didn’t work here, with film they were definitely good to ears but none is gonna stay in memory for too long. Farah tries way too hard to make ‘Indiawaale' look very patriotic but it turns out to be pretty mediocre. While 'Manva Laage' is a Shreya song that would easily put me to sleep with a deja vu of her umpteen old songs. ‘Lovely’ also doesn’t work except for its tunes. The song that I loved was ‘Satakli’ specially the line ‘raadhe raadhe bolo jai kanhaiyaa laal ki’ and Sukhwinder Singh’s voice, he should be asked to sing one song for Shahrukh in every film.
The background score was decent, except for that unwanted theme used where Charlie fights Korean guy.
In performances.. Shahrukh disappoints, except for some moments like ‘horny’, ‘english lines to Mohini’, he over-acted a lot specially scenes where he had to show his anger. Not to forget that irritating ‘kismet kutti cheez hai’ line which I lost count of how many times he repeats. I think he has reached a age where atleast to me he won’t appeal anymore in these masala movies. Either he has to do total romantic film (like JTHJ) or hatke movies (like CDI) or negative roles (like Don2).
Deepika Padukone is so lovable in the movie, despite again having a weird diction. It was great to see her shine so well in comical scenes one after another with such comfort, even her mannerisms were perfect. And good that her emotional scenes were very few. She looks simply Wow in that Indiawaale outfit, even the Chammiya one.
Abhishek looked like to be so much enjoying this role, which was quite impressing even though it was just a supporting role. While Sonu Sood except for the overdose of body exposure, did well in both serious and comical situations. And loved Boman Irani’s child at heart yet a matured guy character, plus his dialogue delivery. Infact all three of them were real jaan of movie after Deepika.
Feel bad for Vivaan Shah, after 7 Khoon Maaf I never expected him to be doing a Farah Khan movie and he hardly has anything in the movie to speak of. Wonder how Naseeruddin Shah would had felt about his choice of film.
Jackie Shroff is good in villain role, though his character isn’t given much screen time unfortunately.
Among Special appearances, it was surprising to see Dino Morea from the days when he used to try his hand at lead roles unsuccessfully and now doing a anchor role at a dance competition. But not as surprising as it was to see Anurag Kashyap play a gay character, I mean what on earth made him accept the role, for a person who is either associated with hard-hitting movies or sarcastic humor at best. This was definitely quite un-expected for me.
And it was first of a kind to see a special appearance credited as ‘Emotional Apperance’ for Anupam Kher, whatever that meant.
Happy New Year is tolerable unlike Chennai Express, whether you like Shahrukh or not (I didnt) you most likely will like performances of Deepika and the supporting cast. There will be some entertaining moments and the final heist scene to enjoy.
And if you are interested, then there’s a lovely Abram shot in the final end credit sequence.
Verdict : 2.5/5
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