Saturday, August 10, 2013

Chennai Express - The Good, The Bad And The Worst


When I had seen Bheja Fry when it came out in 2007, one thing had really confounded me. I didn't really understand Rajat Kapoor and his friends' sick twisted way of enjoying other people making fun of themselves. I probably wouldn't have thought about it much; but the fact that he tries to recruit Vinay Pathak, a stupid innocent gullible and likable person, as one of his "talents" to show off in front of his friends made me wonder this is something that I would never relate myself to. But, alas, the trio Rohit Shetty, SRK and Deepika Padukone didn't let me be that way...

SRK's pathetic attempt at "comedy" has led me believe that his days as Bollywood superstar are now numbered. His whole appearance throughout this turd called "a movie" sounded like a cry for help of once famous actor fallen prey to his age. All those so called "homages" to his previous hit films and mentioning of his dreaded "age" by way younger(way way younger) Deepika has reduced him to a laughing stock. I know Deepika can't act at all. But the smile she had donned while making fun of SRK's age in the movie seemed far too wide and genuine. I had to give her that one.

Speaking of Deepika's performance, who would give a person, who can't properly act, a role which involves delivering dialogues in a different accent?(Wait! The answer is indeed Rohit Shetty. Only he is "sane" enough to do such thing. But we will get to him later). But Deepika's dialog delivery has turned out to be some what OK part of this shit-storm of a movie. There is one scene in the movie that really bothered me though. She goes into full Vidya Balan mode(from Bhul Bhulaiyya) and acts all possessed for no apparent reason. I'm sure her new avatar would be the sole cause of soon to be skyrocketed Viagra sales in next couple of weeks, because she would've killed that many boners by her "performance".

Now let's move to the director himself - the vehicle hater Rohit Shetty! I'm not sure if I should praise him for making egomaniac like SRK to be so miserable and somewhat enjoyable to watch in slightly sadist way when SRK is stripped off of his glory. Or hate him for making the movie! 

Shetty doesn't live up to his name. There were far too fewer car explosions this time around. Perhaps Shetty was busy removing teeth and talons from SRK's ego and reducing his role to that of a furniture, that he forgot to add some over the top explosions that public might have actually enjoyed! So for that, bravo Mr. Shetty(I guess)...
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