Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
ADHM is Karan Johars 7th directorial venture, and probably the first that could enter the 100 Crore club. Not that these numbers makes any difference, but considering its a multiplex movie, it do reflect footfalls and fans.
Surprisingly So far none of his movie has garnered great footfalls, and except KKHH rest all have been Semi Hit or just Hit. In-spite of these bad numbers, KJO is Indians most celebrated Director?
Difference between good movie and a bad movie is the editing of 20 minutes, but if you have 45 min of unwanted content is not bad editing, it’s a case of bad Direction and Kabhi Alvida was the finest example of what one should never do.
In KJOs world, story takes the back seat, well that's the case with most of the directors, but KJO goes a step ahead, In johars' world story, logic, common sense, common flu, viral just do not exist. In fact, he believes these are some remote concept which can hamper his relation with his characters.
So ADHM is more or less like this: SRK loves Ash, who loves RK who has ones sided love for Anushka whose love interest is Fawad Khan …. And everyone knows Fawad loves Pakistan :)
Cut to 1978, Dilawar loves Zohra, Zohras’ love interest is Sikandar but Sikandars' one sided love is his childhood sweetheart, his Madamjee but Madamjee loves Vishal ....but unlike ADHM, Vishal has a role to play because director is Prakash Mehra.
No No i am not comparing the Classic ADHM with Muqaddar ka Sikandar(MKS), just giving a perspective how we use to address "one sided love issues" before the Messenger of love, Johar was not born.
Since KJO believes in character than in the relevance of Plot, story, reasons, logic... so lets stick to that [cardboard characters] for sake of simplicity and humanity.
Ranbir Kapoor - You reject a politician on Development he turns towards communal politics, you reject an actor for his performance he gets into gimmicks.
Jordon turned Barfi who ended up as Dev from Tamasha finds himself as the same old retard guy from Ajab Prem ki Gajab... who sobs like a baby, lie down on the pavement like a kid who has lost his lollypop. here he lost his heart. What baffled me was the same guy, in same situation, travels to Kashmir, help Nargis marry some dude from Prague (Rockstar) looks completely lost and mentally challenged while wearing stole as head gear and singing Channa meriya.
Anushka - She is Indias answer to Jim Carrey although Jim uses his expression in comic scenes, which is relevant, however, Anusha does this as an exercise of futility to bring the acting charm in her lack luster acts. The "character" reminds you of Veronica from Cocktail[Tomboyish], but then this gal is heartbroken so you want glimpse of sadness in her eyes, which you can’t see as her face is preoccupied with 1 million expressions, changing every nano second and keeping track is just impossible. By all means, Anushka is good for only Band Baja bharat.
As if the miseries of life were not over, this time johar decided taking the toughest job in hand, spoof 80s. Sorry it dint worked.
Ash - Never been fan of her work (Except Khakhi) but this time it was different. In one scene when three of them sit for a dinner, it as class, persona, beauty oozing out at one end and Anushka, like a Black hole absorbing at another end.... It was like standing on Bandra Reclamation, having Darawi on your right and BKC on your left.
Never ever i have felt that Ash could be the "only" saving grace for any movie except for her real life story with Abhishek Bachchan. As soon she enters, she sizzles the screen.... soon scenes turn into Mushayara, she starts bombarding RK and audience with her Urdu, ....beyond a point it looked like watching Meher Tarar doing Aman ki Asha. "Mera pyaar Kaamil hai" ... Now who the hell is kamil, you said your ex Husbands' name is Tahir..... Misunderstanding between her name and profession was supposed to be funny but considering sad state of our understanding of Urdu it became tragic because 90% of audience was as confused as much RK was.
One of the finest scene is between Ash and SRK ....and you want to see that more n more, although its not the best of their performances but the ghost of RK and AS coming back and playing SplitsVilla is so dreadful that it can send shivers down your spine.
In that scene, Srk makes a statement "Alfozon ke peeche aksar Kamzoor log chupte hain"
This line basically summarizes Ashwariya Rai Bachchans role in the movie, "Pointless". Honestly as per theory of this genre, her character was supposed to bring the reckoning to RKs character but her part ends in 10 min like a task from fear factor and on that note the refreshing part of this movie comes to an end.
Only when you thought that RK has met AS again and movie will end any minute now, MTV coke studio season 2 starts, with their head gears on they start singing n dancing in random clubs.
Movie ensures you won’t think of climax, because for you, movie has already ended half an hour ago and now you are just waiting for door to open so that you can run, run for your life to breathe in some fresh air.
PS : One of the most enjoyable part is of Lisa Haydons' bimbo act but even that fails as none of her co-star responded well.
Digs on 80s cinema were more pathetic than Sajid khans attempt to re-make Himmatwalla. Its better to watch Ekta Kapoor serial than ADHM.
Karan Johar is to Direction what Shobha De is to writing.
ADHM is Karan Johars 7th directorial venture, and probably the first that could enter the 100 Crore club. Not that these numbers makes any difference, but considering its a multiplex movie, it do reflect footfalls and fans.
Surprisingly So far none of his movie has garnered great footfalls, and except KKHH rest all have been Semi Hit or just Hit. In-spite of these bad numbers, KJO is Indians most celebrated Director?
Difference between good movie and a bad movie is the editing of 20 minutes, but if you have 45 min of unwanted content is not bad editing, it’s a case of bad Direction and Kabhi Alvida was the finest example of what one should never do.
In KJOs world, story takes the back seat, well that's the case with most of the directors, but KJO goes a step ahead, In johars' world story, logic, common sense, common flu, viral just do not exist. In fact, he believes these are some remote concept which can hamper his relation with his characters.
So ADHM is more or less like this: SRK loves Ash, who loves RK who has ones sided love for Anushka whose love interest is Fawad Khan …. And everyone knows Fawad loves Pakistan :)
Cut to 1978, Dilawar loves Zohra, Zohras’ love interest is Sikandar but Sikandars' one sided love is his childhood sweetheart, his Madamjee but Madamjee loves Vishal ....but unlike ADHM, Vishal has a role to play because director is Prakash Mehra.
No No i am not comparing the Classic ADHM with Muqaddar ka Sikandar(MKS), just giving a perspective how we use to address "one sided love issues" before the Messenger of love, Johar was not born.
Since KJO believes in character than in the relevance of Plot, story, reasons, logic... so lets stick to that [cardboard characters] for sake of simplicity and humanity.
Ranbir Kapoor - You reject a politician on Development he turns towards communal politics, you reject an actor for his performance he gets into gimmicks.
Jordon turned Barfi who ended up as Dev from Tamasha finds himself as the same old retard guy from Ajab Prem ki Gajab... who sobs like a baby, lie down on the pavement like a kid who has lost his lollypop. here he lost his heart. What baffled me was the same guy, in same situation, travels to Kashmir, help Nargis marry some dude from Prague (Rockstar) looks completely lost and mentally challenged while wearing stole as head gear and singing Channa meriya.
Anushka - She is Indias answer to Jim Carrey although Jim uses his expression in comic scenes, which is relevant, however, Anusha does this as an exercise of futility to bring the acting charm in her lack luster acts. The "character" reminds you of Veronica from Cocktail[Tomboyish], but then this gal is heartbroken so you want glimpse of sadness in her eyes, which you can’t see as her face is preoccupied with 1 million expressions, changing every nano second and keeping track is just impossible. By all means, Anushka is good for only Band Baja bharat.
As if the miseries of life were not over, this time johar decided taking the toughest job in hand, spoof 80s. Sorry it dint worked.
Ash - Never been fan of her work (Except Khakhi) but this time it was different. In one scene when three of them sit for a dinner, it as class, persona, beauty oozing out at one end and Anushka, like a Black hole absorbing at another end.... It was like standing on Bandra Reclamation, having Darawi on your right and BKC on your left.
Never ever i have felt that Ash could be the "only" saving grace for any movie except for her real life story with Abhishek Bachchan. As soon she enters, she sizzles the screen.... soon scenes turn into Mushayara, she starts bombarding RK and audience with her Urdu, ....beyond a point it looked like watching Meher Tarar doing Aman ki Asha. "Mera pyaar Kaamil hai" ... Now who the hell is kamil, you said your ex Husbands' name is Tahir..... Misunderstanding between her name and profession was supposed to be funny but considering sad state of our understanding of Urdu it became tragic because 90% of audience was as confused as much RK was.
One of the finest scene is between Ash and SRK ....and you want to see that more n more, although its not the best of their performances but the ghost of RK and AS coming back and playing SplitsVilla is so dreadful that it can send shivers down your spine.
In that scene, Srk makes a statement "Alfozon ke peeche aksar Kamzoor log chupte hain"
This line basically summarizes Ashwariya Rai Bachchans role in the movie, "Pointless". Honestly as per theory of this genre, her character was supposed to bring the reckoning to RKs character but her part ends in 10 min like a task from fear factor and on that note the refreshing part of this movie comes to an end.
Only when you thought that RK has met AS again and movie will end any minute now, MTV coke studio season 2 starts, with their head gears on they start singing n dancing in random clubs.
Movie ensures you won’t think of climax, because for you, movie has already ended half an hour ago and now you are just waiting for door to open so that you can run, run for your life to breathe in some fresh air.
PS : One of the most enjoyable part is of Lisa Haydons' bimbo act but even that fails as none of her co-star responded well.
Digs on 80s cinema were more pathetic than Sajid khans attempt to re-make Himmatwalla. Its better to watch Ekta Kapoor serial than ADHM.
Karan Johar is to Direction what Shobha De is to writing.
No comments:
Post a Comment