What is Different Perspective?
We do have a tendency to get carried away by the success of a film and rarely look deep down into it to justify the ‘praises’ heaped on the film as well as on director. Should success blind our ‘thinking’ and shouldn’t we study its shortcomings as well. Agreed audience appreciation is all too important but will it not be a crime to overlook its flaws. This is just an attempt to pause for `moment’ and analyze the structuring of the `plot’ and how it would have been a notable effort if director had adhered to few rules of Filmmaking grammar.
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Director Sanjay Gadhvi relies more on dare-devil action, breath-taking locales besides well-designed songs but failed to stitch up an ‘engrossing’ screenplay. After the success of “Dhoom”, director probably felt that a film’s success mostly depends on mere ‘presentation’ than on a valid plot and engaging screenplay. He failed to enhance the ‘plot’ at least for the ‘sequel’ with virtually no ‘conflict’ between the police and a scheming robber. His screenplay is just loaded with dare-devil chases after each ‘robbery’ (unrealistic stealing of a diamond with a remote car) and predictably police fails to nab him every time after an hot chase. Niehter it gathers evidences against him. Protagonist has been described as a notorious international criminal but Interpol is not involved (for reasons best known to them) so the task of nabbing him is bestowed on a Mumbai cop. The plot had the potential to be made into a ‘thrilling’ entertainer if police were closely behind him even forcing him to change his ‘plans’ but it just ends up as an one-sided affair. Director should have focused more on the ‘love’ between Hritick and Aishwarya besides convincingly establishing the transition of an ‘informer’ into a true `lover. Director’s `inappropriate’ blending of a love story with an hide-and-seek plot makes it a sickening potboiler without a ‘soul’. If you agree, read on.
Protagonist is a man of disguise who even steals the crown of Queen and fortunately succeeds in all his missions since the police are inept everywhere including Mumbai. Abshishek discovers a ‘pattern’ in his robberies and associates it with ‘numerology’. He is shrewd enough to understand that the ‘robber’ is in town but he doesn’t feel it important to alert the Interpol. Next, in most amateurish manner he lets him go despite giving a hot chase on helicopter. (It establishes his poor shooting skills). Even after seeing him, Uday Chopra is unable to make a ‘sketch’ of an old man who hoodwinked them and slipped into a manhole. He even gives him an identity card and police with some common sense would have made image of it to unravel the ‘face’ behind it. Neither the police dogs nor fingerprints experts are pressed into service despite loss of a ‘fortune’. Next, Abishek decides to plant a ‘mole’ (a beautiful ex-thief) with protagonist and she reaches to steal a ‘costly sword” before Hritick. Another blunder is Abishek’s unusual `resolve’ not to arrest a suspect neither before nor after but only while committing the offence(a silly virtue that can make social deviants joyful). So he doesn’t arrest the protagonist when he arrives in theatre and goes all the way to another country to again keep a tab on him. (a criminal waste of govt funds, hope you all will agree).
On Hritick’s front- he hates to trust anyone and even rejects her proposal of joining hands initially. But later he is besotted with her looks and falls in love with her. Without knowing much about her credentials (even after seeing her with Abishek in theatre) the shrewd robber fails to study her intentions. But later chides her for ‘deceiving’ him and even the ‘rotating’ shoot-out drama towards the end fails to evoke sympathy. If he sacrificing himself for love then he should have done it the right manner. Unfortunately there is not even a hint of ‘guilt’ in him about his deeds nor is he interested in reforming. for love. Above all he is loving another thief what a great co-incidence. Can we blame it on director for not addressing these issues threadbare? But for Hritick it was just like “Krish Act 2”.
Aishwarya’s character is poorly-etched. Is she befriending a dreaded criminal just to avoid being arrested on a petty theft case. She doesn’t show her love for him `explicitly’ except for throwing some ‘looks’ here and there. Does she suddenly discover love for him during ‘shoot-out’ episode after planning to trap him till few hours before? Or she doesn’t want to kill him herself?
It was a disappointing ‘love story’ from Yash Raj Films who dished out great love stories in the history of Hindi cinema like “Dilwala Dulhaniya…” and many more.
More Different Perspectives by Friendly Viewer:
• Aa Naluguru
• Aparichitudu
• Krrish (Hindi)
• Sri Ramadasu
• Vikramarkudu
• Don (Hindi)
• Pokiri
• Stalin
• Bommarillu
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