Happy New Year, Really?

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The latest from Farah Khan and SRK is the overrated Happy New Year released last Friday. An advise from my side is that if you really want to watch the movie leave all the grey matter and logical cells of your brain back home. Well, actually it is not a movie worth 250 bucks at the theater rather take the 100 bucks ticket on Thursdays and watch it on the big screen. You would not even be losing out on anything if you miss this movie since in a month's time you will have Sony or any other TV channel premiering the same on the small screen. The movie is a mix of the Hollywood hit Ocean's Eleven, a pinch of Amitabh Bachchan's Deewar in which his father was also sent to prison on charges stealing and the copycat mud fight scene of Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes with garnishing of Bollywood twists and turns, songs, dance, illogical humour and wrongly placed emotions before being served. I wish Farah Khan who had such a talented star cast like Boman Irani, SRK and Deepika would have made a more logical masala movie like Om Shanti Om.

The story is empowered by the same age old 'badla' factor. SRK's dad is cheated by Jackie Shroff, who plays the head of the world's largest security agency and sent to 12 years of imprisonment on charges of stealing. SRK starts bringing his old pals together and plans to steal 300 crore diamonds that will be kept in Jackie Shroff's custody in Dubai in order to humiliate him and send him to jail. The catch is that these pack of losers need to win a dance competition in order to go to Dubai unnoticed to the hotel where the diamonds will be kept. This is where Deepika comes in as their dance teacher. In the later half of the movie SRK discloses that his father is dead when Deepika confronts him and asks if his father would be proud of him on realizing that his only son is stealing to avenge him. The entire movie revolves around diamonds, SRK's old movie dialogues, dances, a show of patriotism, pj's and over the top satires.

Undoubtedly, the movie has a few very nice songs to watch out for composed by the talented duo Vishal-Shekhar. Deepika looks gorgeous in every scene in the movie except that her fake accent seems fake and there is not much acting scope for her. Abhishek Bachchan is ok in the movie, I guess his role demanded such disgusting behaviour. Anyhow, these roles do not suit the Bachchan clan. Jr. Bachchan has some very good movies in his kitty like Guru, Raavan and Yuva. These roles seemed tailor-made for him but in HNY, the vomiting and drunk look of him was "yuck". Boman Irani has done a good job as far as his role demanded, playing a less brainy 50 year old partner of the group of thieves. Sonu Sood playing a crazy ex-army man with hearing issues plays a fair role too. Then comes the youngest of the lot Vivaan Shah, son of Nasseruddin Shah. He plays a hacker and has done justice as a debutante. Last, but the one and only hero of the film, SRK, the badshaah of Bollywood has been himself and there is not much complaint against him apart from the story-line and screenplay. He could have played a better role in the making of this movie since he is one of the finest actors our industry has.

I do not know but may be it was a movie for Farah and SRK to come back together and the sole purpose was to earn big time which it has been successful in by breaking records after records since its release. I do wish, at least Shahrukh for the kind of status he holds in Bollywood does take a step ahead in making and pushing for more meaningful story-lines rather than these stupid and senseless concepts.