'Freaky Ali' U/A; Drama Director: Sohail Khan Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, Amy Jackson Rating: <img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/jan/1-stars.gif" alt="" width="59" height="11" />&nbsp;
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Correct me if I&rsquo;m wrong, but the last time I saw a white marble statue of Shirdi&rsquo;s Sai Baba produce a miracle in a movie was probably Manmohan Desai&rsquo;s Amar Akbar Anthony in 1977. And in this picture in 2016 &mdash; if you may. Frickin&rsquo; eh! Yup. Except, we thought this was going to be a realistic picture about a poor man from a basti taking up a gentleman&rsquo;s sport, that&rsquo;s golf. Well, it partly is. About golf? Maybe. Realistic? No.&nbsp;
Seriously, no matter how inherent your talent, you cannot just show up in a golf course first time on, hit the club against the ball, land a hole-in-one or two, and have the world worship the ground beneath your feet.
Golf, for anyone who&rsquo;s ever tried it, is as much an acquired skill as it is a sport. And someone does need to teach you the basics &mdash; like how to hold the damn club in the first place.
If you were rich enough to afford the green-fee, it&rsquo;s unlikely that you&rsquo;d find a bunch of nanga street urchins beating drums and dancing for you at a posh club (even t-shirts without collars aren&rsquo;t usually allowed).
Okay, I&rsquo;m not going to let technicalities get in the way of a good story being told. Nobody should. Only that I am still searching for the story, which may even be par for the course &mdash; mixing &lsquo;satta&rsquo; (punting), with desi dons, banal dialogues, and second-rate, sexist, self-referencing jokes, certainly don&rsquo;t count.
What does? In this film, the lead actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui does, for sure. I suspect the filmmakers would have chosen the actor before the script itself. There is a latent cheekiness in his persona that only few films have explored so far (The Lunchbox might be one of them). He himself calls it &ldquo;bhonde wali acting&rdquo;.
Yeah he&rsquo;s fun. What about the rich people around giving him lessons on &ldquo;ameer and gareeb&rdquo;, while he lands the hottest woman in the club, and the movie goes off course thereafter? Ah, we&rsquo;re just faking Ali, no? Sadly, yes.

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We thought this was going to be a realistic picture about a poor man from a basti taking up a gentleman&rsquo;s sport, that&rsquo;s golf. Well, it partly is. About golf? Maybe. Realistic? No

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