What do you get when you put 15 NITIEans together in a movie theater? 15 opinions, 10 ratings as gtalk status and 5 movie reviews on the blogs. And so it happened with Tashan, as people bored with IPL descended onto the 24 Karat multiplex in Jogeshwari.
The following is the rating from our in-house (read as in-hostel) experts. So while Khalid Mohammed starts sending out his resume, the verdict came out as follows: Viji > 1.5/5, Killi > 2/5, Atlee > 2.5, Brijesh > 3.
With due respect to their opinions (in your dreams :P), here’s how and why I rate this movie.
This movie is about style. “When the packaging is so good, no one cares what’s inside”. Kotler didn’t say this under his 7Ps of marketing, but so says Joey about himself in a Friends episode. This movie is about that..Tashan..Style.
The reason why this movie has been trashed around is the silly story line. The movie basically has very low substance. But the winner for me here is its style, its packaging. The director has spent effort in styling the outcome and it shows. It shows in the dialogues, it shows in the attire, it shows in the camerawork, and it shows up awesomely in the music. The style quotient is present right through the movie and not just on the posters or in the movie trailers on cable TV.
The director has given due attention to the details that make the Style impact. It includes the red hair coloring of Bhayyaji (Anil Kapoor) similar to what my barber from UP sports, as well as the cycle that Anil kapoor rides a la Betaaj Badshah. The eye-wear Anil flaunts is so typical of the goggles you find at Dadar station. Was director Acharya playing to the front row, audience? I think not. He has depicted the Tashan wise aspirations of our brethren hailing from places like Kanpur, and then taken it a step further by packaging it to make a style statement.
The highlights include the opening scene with switching music in a speeding car, making almost everyone wonder..”WTF is going on?”, just enough to glue you to your seat from the word go. Even the narration just before the interval kept me eagerly waiting for the action to restart. The 9 masked Akki’s entry as Ravan with Hanuman riding pillion, on an LML scooter to reach the Ram leela show, is nothing short of being hilarious. It strangely resembled how I and Kaiser reached the movie, bumping through the railway tracks of Jogeshwari. Akki just rocks on in his rustic mode especially in the scene where he stares as kareena rips her jeans into shocking shorts.
The word “Style” keeps cropping up in this review, because that’s what this movie is about. It has little content, but I have seen too many content rich movies lately and they leave me unsatisfied.
Are people over criticizing Tashan? Definetly not. The emotional turn and the climax are superficial. The fight scenes are ridiculous. And characters like inspector hooda and Bhayyaji’s cronies are sore fillers. This movie could have been treated much better, if the script work was given an engaging content.
The rating is derived from 1.5 for Akki + 1 for the music + 0.5 for the superb eye-candy called Kareena Kapoor.
Verdict: The focus is clearly on presenting a visual and audio enticement. I am enticed. I am going to watch it again.
The following is the rating from our in-house (read as in-hostel) experts. So while Khalid Mohammed starts sending out his resume, the verdict came out as follows: Viji > 1.5/5, Killi > 2/5, Atlee > 2.5, Brijesh > 3.
With due respect to their opinions (in your dreams :P), here’s how and why I rate this movie.
This movie is about style. “When the packaging is so good, no one cares what’s inside”. Kotler didn’t say this under his 7Ps of marketing, but so says Joey about himself in a Friends episode. This movie is about that..Tashan..Style.
The reason why this movie has been trashed around is the silly story line. The movie basically has very low substance. But the winner for me here is its style, its packaging. The director has spent effort in styling the outcome and it shows. It shows in the dialogues, it shows in the attire, it shows in the camerawork, and it shows up awesomely in the music. The style quotient is present right through the movie and not just on the posters or in the movie trailers on cable TV.
The director has given due attention to the details that make the Style impact. It includes the red hair coloring of Bhayyaji (Anil Kapoor) similar to what my barber from UP sports, as well as the cycle that Anil kapoor rides a la Betaaj Badshah. The eye-wear Anil flaunts is so typical of the goggles you find at Dadar station. Was director Acharya playing to the front row, audience? I think not. He has depicted the Tashan wise aspirations of our brethren hailing from places like Kanpur, and then taken it a step further by packaging it to make a style statement.
The highlights include the opening scene with switching music in a speeding car, making almost everyone wonder..”WTF is going on?”, just enough to glue you to your seat from the word go. Even the narration just before the interval kept me eagerly waiting for the action to restart. The 9 masked Akki’s entry as Ravan with Hanuman riding pillion, on an LML scooter to reach the Ram leela show, is nothing short of being hilarious. It strangely resembled how I and Kaiser reached the movie, bumping through the railway tracks of Jogeshwari. Akki just rocks on in his rustic mode especially in the scene where he stares as kareena rips her jeans into shocking shorts.
The word “Style” keeps cropping up in this review, because that’s what this movie is about. It has little content, but I have seen too many content rich movies lately and they leave me unsatisfied.
Are people over criticizing Tashan? Definetly not. The emotional turn and the climax are superficial. The fight scenes are ridiculous. And characters like inspector hooda and Bhayyaji’s cronies are sore fillers. This movie could have been treated much better, if the script work was given an engaging content.
The rating is derived from 1.5 for Akki + 1 for the music + 0.5 for the superb eye-candy called Kareena Kapoor.
Verdict: The focus is clearly on presenting a visual and audio enticement. I am enticed. I am going to watch it again.
2 comments:
Brijesh is turning into a reputed critic and making it into serious competition for me and Kili [:)]
Very natural review..
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