A farmer’s beloved sis and an NRI tycoon’s boisterous son fall in love in the course of the garish wedding of the latter’s cousin who happens to be the former’s best friend.

All hell breaks loose when the family elders find out that the lovebirds have been getting cosy on the sly. The girl is accused of trying to ensnare a wealthy boy.

The young lovers are separated and the girl and her brother are thrown out of the party.

All this plays out to accompaniment of an ear-splitting background score. There is also a song-and-dance set piece at every turn. It is all predictable and tiresome.

If the plot reeks of Bollywood of the 1980s, it isn’t surprising at all: Ramaiya Vastavaiya, Prabhu Deva’s remake of his debut Telugu hit, owes its primary inspiration to Maine Pyar Kiya. Yes, this wine is that stale. No wonder it stinks.

Nothing in Prabhu Deva’s directorial style suggests that he is interested in the least in imparting a fresh coat of paint to this old construct.

To make sure that the past weighs heavy on the proceedings, the cast has actors like Vinod Khanna, Randhir Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon and Satish Shah.

Ironically, they are the only ones in this infantile romp who manage to stay just a little above the morass.

The rest of the film is so raucous and utterly tasteless that it is difficult to believe that any established producer would want it to be his son’s launch vehicle.

Ramaiya Vastavaiya opens in a jail, where a prisoner, Raghuvir (Sonu Sood), on the eve of his release, narrates to the warden the story behind his imprisonment.

Like much else in the film, it isn’t explained why the prison official needed to wait for the very last day of a lengthy sentence to find out why this man got here in the first place.

Cut to a village temple. A boy’s mother asks the priest to offer a coconut to the deity on behalf of her son and an infant daughter. It turns out that coconut is rotten on the inside – a bad omen.

The woman, abandoned by her husband, dies. The orphans are left to fend for themselves under the benign eyes of the local station master (Vinod Khanna).

By the time the credits end, the boy and the girl have grown up into an ideal brother-sister pair who vow to be by each other’s side all their lives.

The stage is set for the love story to unfold.

Thousands of miles away, in Australia, the boy, Ram (Girish Kumar) emerges from the sea, his gym-toned body bared for the camera, and then proceeds to frolic on Bondi Beach with a bevy of biki-clad girls as his hen-pecked dad (Randhir Kapoor) calls him to check on him.

The old man is a successful businessman, but loses his nerve before his foul-tempered wife (Poonam Dhillon).

At the other end of the spectrum is the heroine, Sona (Shruti Haasan), whose vehicle of choice is a bullock cart.

She has been brought up in a village by the afore-mentioned doting and hard working elder brother, who now owns a thriving poultry farm.

For the first time in her life, Sona leaves her brother alone and travels to her friend’s home for the latter’s wedding.

Ram arrives, his supercilious mother in tow, and falls head over heels for humble Sona even as a construction magnate (Nasser) has his eyes on him for his daughter, Dolly.

Dolly is the kind of bimbette that no right-thinking boy, even a spoilt brat like the one we have here, would touch with the end of a barge-pole. The frisky Ram, who prances about the house like little puppy freed from its leash, keeps her at arm’s length and inches closer to Sona.

The film is barely halfway into the first half at this point of the narrative, but the audience has already clearly drifted away, as the loud sniggers, snide comments and audible fidgets in the auditorium indicate.

Girish Kumar, producer Kumar Taurani’s son, hides behind a four-day stubble in a bid to look more mature than he really is. His gawky ways give him away.

Shruti Haasan is only marginally better but she, too, has miles to go before she can breathe easy as an actress.

Watch Ramaiya Vastavaiya only if you have the stomach for unbridled lunacy.


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Film: D-Day
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan, Arjun Rampal, Huma Qureshi, Shruti Hassan Sriswara, Aakaash Dahiya, Nasser and Chandan Roy Sanyal;
Director: Nikhil Advani;
Rating: ****

Fragrant pencils and the stench of blood... Irrfan's character identifies flavoured pencils with his undying love for his son even when his life is soaked in the blood of traitors and other modern-day heroes. Funny, how two entirely disparate experiences can co-exist in a work of art!

And make no mistake, Nikhil Advani's sixth feature film is an acutely accomplished work of art. It's a thriller, yes. About the enforced extradition of a Dawood-like gangster. But what I came away with was a haunting love story between a mysterious Indian intelligence agent and a Pakistani sex worker, both wounded and scarred for life. She in ways that we can see. He in intangible ways. But pain, at the end of the day, is pain. It's what binds together the sex-worker and the ex-army man.

Shot in an expertly constructed brothel sets with the crowded colours of lurid sex suggesting the tragedy of lives lived in borrowed beds, the scenes between Arjun Rampal and Shruti Hassan are punctured by piercing silences and a haunting melody about love, loss and incomplete lives sung by Rekha Bharadwaj.

Later, much later, the girl is tortured to painful death by a sadistic butcher, gleefully played by Chandan Roy Sanyal.

In one of the most innovative editing techniques applied to a Hindi cinema (editors Aarif Sheikh and Unni Krishnan can take a bow), we see the scarred prostitute's torture and death through Arjun Rampal eyes as though he were there when it happened, when he was not.

And in the background a haunting Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy song Alvida plays with assertive evocativeness, reminding us that the end of love is always death.

The love story could have been the entire script of Advani's film. But D-Day – an odd title since the antagonist is not named Dawood - has a lot more to say, and it says it with in a tone of unfussy enrapturing elan that invites us into its midst without using gimmicky methods of enticement.

The screenplay by Advani, Ritesh Shah and Suresh Nair constructs a collage of characters hell-bent on a collision course. Though rigorously researched, the erudition sits easily, spontaneously and unobtrusively on Advani's narration.

The story of a bunch of RAW agents on a mission in Pakistan to nab India's Most Wanted is told in a tone that favours a detached distance from the proceedings while ensuring we see each character's life in prismatic close-ups.

Though a deeply patriotic film, D-Day indulges in no flag-waving. The Indian flag makes one guest appearance and that too at the end. God bless Manoj Kumar.

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They say To Rob a Thief, You have to think like a Thief. You have to behave like a Thief. You have to be like a Thief. Even if you are not a Thief. Bajatey Raho takes the same route in a funnier way where 4 innocent people tries to take on the system of a corrupt man and gives him back what he deserves. Shashant A Shah, The director of Dasvidaniya (2008) and Challo Dilli (2011) brings a comical tale of Honor and Self Respect which makes you laugh and think twice.

Bajatey Raho also reminds you of a Spanish Direct-to-DVD acclaimed film Ladron Que Roba A Ladron (2007) which obviously means "To Rob A Thief".

The Thief is Sabbarwal (Ravi Kishan) who is on a roll committing a series of frauds. But the evil misdoings of this businessman has created a huge impact on the lives of 4 poor innocent people. Mrs. Baweja (Dolly Ahluwalia), Sukhi (Tusshar Kapoor), Mintoo Hasan (Vinay Pathak) and Ballu (Ranvir Shorey) which has only resulted into an enormous wave of need for vengeance. Now these 4 people are looking out for a revenge from Sabbarwal at any cost.

Without giving away much of the film i would only like to bring to your notice that these 4 innocent people are about to plan a different type of revenge for Sabbarwal. The revenge will be in a language which is best understood by this man.

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Film: Issaq
Director: Manish Tiwary
Cast: Prateik Babbar, Amyra Dastur, Malini Awasthi, Makrand Deshpande, Ravi Kishan, Neena Gupta, Prashant Narayanan Certification: U/A

In one of the weirdest character entries/introductions, Prateik in Issaq is seen in a flashback montage defending himself against Naxals and getting shot in the foot. This is intercut with him running at a frenetic pace for no apparent reason on random greenscreen'd footage, and finally jumping into a river. Next, he's seducing a tourist, who's spiritually exploring herself. Why does he jump? No idea. What happened with his foot? No idea. Is there a connection with the woman? No, but at least we're given a character insight into 'Romeo'.

As you might've guessed, director Manish Tiwary's second outing after Dil Dosti Etc., Issaq, is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and set in Banaras. The Montagues and Capulets transform into gangland families Mishras and Kashyaps, and the characters' analogy is more or less maintained. But it is a strange, heavy-handed film that staunchly refuses to entertain until the very end (and even here, you know exactly what's coming). Perhaps it comes at a wrong time when Bollywood is OD'ing (overdosing) on UP-based romances and the audience is tiring. Ishaqzaade is not entirely dissimilar and, even though it's a middling movie on its own, looks every bit a classic when compared to Issaq.

Issaq requires tremendous effort and patience to get through (let alone like), and in the end, it is simply not worth it. Issaq requires tremendous effort and patience to get through (let alone like), and in the end, it is simply not worth it.

The makers strive hard for some kind of authenticity, even subtitling some of the dialogue into English for our convenience. As if the rest of the film - full of dark blood, golden guns, and epic moustaches - makes perfect sense. The romance is simplistic and instant while the rest of the screenplay elements try to complicate and confound. Both are often faked and lack conviction. Sure, certain individual scenes rise above the placid performances and wearisome writing, but mediocrity can homogenize everything in its path. The long-winded Naxal track especially, seems to be more of a personal statement and sentiment of the director that is worthy of a tweet or two at the most. It has no place in the movie.

Prateik has had one too many average performances and even in Issaq, he uses his deranged smile and tinny voice to get by most scenes. It does not work any more. Luckily, the director's given him some parkour moves inspired from Assassin's Creed to cover up for it. Amyra Dastur's got potential. Now we need to see her in a film.

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