DIRECTED BY: ZOYA AKHTAR
CAST: FARHAN AKHTAR, KONKANA SEN SHARMA, RISHI KAPOOR, DIMPLE KAPADIA, ISHA SHERWANI, SANJAY KAPOOR AND HRITHIK ROSHAN(SPECIAL APPEARENCE).
The story is about Vikram (Farhan Akhtar) who's come down from Delhi to become a hero and about Sona (Konkana Sen Sharma) who has left her everything in Lucknow and has been struggling it out for the last three years to make it as a heroine. Through their journey they come across the over enthusiastic-fat-sweet tongued but shrewd Producer (Rishi kapoor), the eternal Diva(Dimple) agressively launching her damsel daughter Niki(Isha) and a failed actor whose being pushed by his brother(Rishi) into direction-Sanjay Kapoor! and amidst this jamboree of cardboard characters is yet another cliche character of a superstar- Zafar Khan(Hrithik Roshan) who obviously is diplomatic and insecure.
The only thing good about this film is the style in which excel entertainment makes their movies. There is something that gives their films a panache and sleekness that makes for visual delight. Every frame looks presentable and hence makes everything else far above bearable. I got prejudiced towards the film when i realised that for 8 years Zoya Akhtar was nurturing the script!! It is a pity that the daughter of Javed Akhar(diaolgues) and sister of Farhan Akhar(Actor-Producer) could only think as far as the the hindi film industry(over 8 years) and that too make it seem a circus of buffoons and cardboard characters.
I will not discourage anyone from watching the film, I even recommend the film but i will feel chained if i don't yell it out that i feel the entire film seemed to me an indulgence of a family and some friends...in a world where i and many like me slog out hard to convince people to put in some money on something new and unique, i consider it unfair that such indulgence is applauded wherein a person who claims to know the film industry so intimately makes it look like the last place to be on this planet with nothing good about it and nothing real about it. I would have still let go of this extreme reaction of mine had this film been made by an outsider...i would have not even have cribbed about the caricatured characters and situations but it did seem rather a waste for a film to be made by the people it is made by.
and now that I've said all of that...PHEW! feels alright....
I must hurry for I've an appointment with Zoya!!
Did someone think...show must go on!!...come on now... something new please! :)
