Film Review Mayank Shekhar mayank. shekhar@ mid- day. com Have to tell you, was quite excited about this movie.
Why? Well, why else is anyone ever excited about a new pic anyway? Because of its promo. Projected on big screen, blasting background score, with psychedelic colours thickly laid over two hot humans tripping over the sea, and under clear blue sky, is the kinda stuff that hooks you right away. Looked like a fine concert video to me.
Especially if you consider the flickering images on the screen that those in the know will instantly recognise as momentary, horizontal distortions in your vision/ eyes, when youu2019re tripping on substances that will never be made legal for a good reason. Because theyu2019re just too good to be true.
And humanity has a lot to lose, en masse, if it decides to lose itself in the collective haze of chemical substances.
Or, maybe weu2019d be happy to.
If, like the hero ( Aditya Roy Kapur) here, and more so the heroine ( Disha Patani), we woke up looking like fresh daisies during the day, despite getting shit- faced on hard drugs all night. I want to be them, yo; through and through.
But how to? If only we knew these pretty young things better.
Hereu2019s what youu2019re likely to learn about them, as an audience, watching them gallivanting either on the beach or on a bike, having met for a quick second once, after a police- raid at a rave, after which they simply canu2019t take their eyes ( and hands) off each other.
They have no ghar, no thikana, no naukri, full- income, no maa- baap, of course; but a gorgeously nomadic Goa life that can only be interrupted by hanging with goras in the hills instead.
The guy is both a beach and a mountain person. Good to know. This film isnu2019t about these two though, really.
Wish it was a surreptitiously pro- drug picture.
Except, every time folk in the film land themselves stuff that Goa runs on, according to the movie, u201c X, stamp, Charlie, molly, stash,u201d a bumper sticker shows up on the side of the screen, u201c Drugs cost you more than just money,u201d u201c Drugs kill pain, but finally the brain,u201d etc.
Accha.
And then the focus shifts to two cops. Oneu2019s Panaji ka Lakhan ( Anil Kapoor) wearing a khakee uniform shirt, buttoned down over regular clothes, chasing dead bodies. The killer, thatu2019s the hero ( Kapur), whou2019s stepped out of prison, informs him of his target. Thereu2019s another cop, totally nondescript type in comparison ( Kunal Kemmu), whose colleagues are turning out to be the targets.
There is no gang or syndicate at work. Not that you know of. This lasts over a night in real- time that still seems shorter than the length of this supposed thriller.
There is certainly no motive that is likely to intrigue you either. Except, a huge u2018 revealu2019 at the end. Which only reveals how moronic this movie really is. But thatu2019s another matter.
Donu2019t let such stuff distract you from some fine filmmaking flourishes, to be fair u2014 as the chant u2018 Alla hoou2019 plays for background score, before a packed football stadium with a match going on, on Christmas, and a body drops on top of a parked cop- car, thrown off by the hero from the terrace above.
Itu2019s a kickass, quick scene.
Itu2019s there in the promo. Thatu2019s what one sometimes wonders.
Why canu2019t some of these films be left at the snazzy trailer? Iu2019ll take that man.
There should be a running script for a full, two- hour feature, too? Arrey, who says so.
Itu2019s okay.
Malang A : Action, drama Dir: Mohit Suri Cast: Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani 1 12 Should have carried palang H YUCK HH WHATEVER HHH GOOD HHHH SUPER HHHHH AWESOME
