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Who is Fool Here. Bazmi ? Akki ? or the viewers who pardon this type of film. Is iy a trailer or ctrl C+ ctrl V of Akki’s and Bazmi’s previous movies. I don’t know how you said This might work.
there is so much Akki now its kind of nauseating to watch now. dude needs to relax and chill for awhile. to be honest its becoming like Govinda in the late 90′s and early 2000′s where he was in every other movie that released and totally wiped him out.
Why is this there such a fetish for all things American? (starting with the intro music) Why can’t Indian films be set in India? If they’re going to set them abroad, why not get the facts right about the foreign society and culture? Akshay, Suneil, Irfan, and even Bobby are all good actors and are capable of doing so much better than what they are doing here. Why is a company like UTV (which I thought aspired to “quality” films) producing this kind of nonsense?
So many questions, so few answers, unless it is all contained in the one word “money.”
“Akshay, Suneil, Irfan, and even Bobby are all good actors”
Not sure whether your initial question (this late in Bollywood history) perplexes me more or this assertion here. Have a heart and have mercy on Irrfan! Then again I guess he placed himself in this august company of thespians. This is where a paycheck gets you!
Will agree that UTV shouldn’t produce this. I too was surprised to see their logo here. It certainly damages their image.
I didn’t say they were all “equally” good. I was just disagreeing with your earlier comment that one should always avoid Bobby. But yes, they are each capable of doing much better roles than these.
As for my “initial question” – did you mean about the American fetish? Maybe because I usually don’t watch these kinds of films, it catches me by surprise every time. Precisely because they’ve been doing this now for so many years, and with much better access to information and experience (for example, many of the younger set of actors have actually lived in the U.S. for shorter or longer periods, and Akshay is actually either a permanent resident or citizen of Canada), it puzzles me that such bizarre distortions still persist.
I should talk, though. I just watched the beginning of a Chiranjeevi movie from 2005 which opens with Arbaaz Khan trying to smuggle some weapons from an American port. When the captain of the ship questions him about this, he shoots the captain dead, and then gives a briefcase of cash to the rest of the crew and sails off without any problem!
As many members have already mentioned how ‘CRAP’ the trailor is I just want to say……
Bazmee’s last (NO PROBLEM) was mental torture and now I am extremely worried for bhai’s READY. I don’t want to sound extreme but this year could make and dare I say break (or seriously) dent the credentials of Bazmee.
Now am thinking on the lines of SLB (poles apart in the films they make) but both started off so well. Bazmee wrote one of Dhawan’s greatest films AANKHEN and gave the memorable (for me anyway) PYAR TO HONA HI THA. Then in my opinion made a good thriller in DEWANGEE and then with NO ENTRY entered the big league (biggest hit of the year). After that I found all his films poor except WELCOME.
Now we all know the films Bhansali has made and his last 2-3 have been pretty bad.
The regular occurence that comes to my mind is that with each film (well there last few films) the films content wise have been short of dreadful.
Now Bhansali is in a predicament and will be interesting to see what he comes up with next but Bazmee needs to consolidate his position otherwise run the risk of being in the position of Bhansali.
Now I don’t know if I’ve made any sense lol coz the difference in these two directors is evidently different and thank god for that. I just wanted to show that sometimes directors lose the plot and think just because they have a credible filmography and have made some memorable films in the past that they can produce mediocre stuff and in the case of films like NO PROBLEM, utter trash.
@ sm – btw I think the film has been shot in Toronto/Canada but yeah agree completely too many films (especially Nadiadwala films and KJO films are shot in the same places in America/London and now they have added Canada to the list lol
never thought sonam would be the best thing about any movie but here she definetely was…extremely beautiful….movie looks like crap from the trailer with akshay acting like a buffoon again with his annoying smirks….irrfan gives some hope but i think he did this film for money which isnt that bad even naseer did alot of films for that reason…wont be surprised if it flops…and whats with that awful 70′s background song….horrible work by pritam
Agree with Naveed and others here—Bazmi is sitting on some serious debacles here.
As for akki, Dont think he is that foolish. He has stopped thinking about no1 and the “race” etc.
He is making good money and at the same time, doing them at a v good pace. He cares a damn about “spacing out releases” and “varying genres”.
In other words, he wants to make hay while the sun shines—So whilst this wont last for long, Akki wants to milk this phase financially to the hilt..
After that, inevitably, Akki may go the govinda way. But does he care, if he has alreayd made mega crores and has had umpteen releases….In other words, the aims and motivations are different than say, srk or aamir…
The latest trailers of several films all have the same look with a whole lot of half naked women thrusting, wiggling and falling on the single man present in their midst (the hero more often than not).
YUKK !!! y is akshay doing this to himself…if janabe aali wasnt bad enuff he is now come up with another crappy pyar lo pyar do track…gives a feel of Bgrade porn movie
what in the hell???? this is so stupid. i truly hope this movie bombs after seeing this latest song called ‘razia’. this has to be one of the cheapest songs ive ever seen.
BAzmi seems to be a specialist in “cheating your wife or girlfriend” scenarios.
Not surprisingly, some peolpe felt that “thank you” is actully the leftover script he had written for “no entry2″!!!
Okay, so the movie features a lot of white women dancing around in bikinis, who get slapped by Akshay for no reason. WTH? How did the censor board even allow something so misogynistic to pass through? Since when did abusing women become an acceptable dance move?
@ KM – he also made DEWANGEE I think. Since NO ENTRY Anees Bazmee has lost the plot. The quality of his films (exception of WELCOME in some parts) has been dreadful. It was torture watching SIK and the recent NO PROBLEM. TY looks even worse and at this point looks like a disaster. I don’t even think it will open well.
@ satyam – now if TY fails misreably will that have a knock on effect on READY?
I think for now the Salman factor should be enough of an override given this will be his first film post-Dabanng. Also with Akshay this stuff is now beyond stale. For some mysterious reason he refuses to stop. and unless the films are really good they won’t work. Getting back to Ready it of course eventually depends on what kind of film Bazmee has made. I think he’s been distracted lately doing too many things.
Now I’m no Akki fan but even I now want him to be careful coz he really is ruining his career (if I can say that). The guy has TY, HF 2, DB, JOKER all within the next 12 months and from what I know all are pretty similar. Now that really is dreadful. The audience today are not as patient as before and soon will get fed up.
Anyway let’s see what happens. For the very little I know TY may open huge.
But i think he realises that he is a 1 trick pony and therefore has been signing films (with big sign-on fees) like there’s no tomorrow. He’s basically piling up the money for the hard times which lie ahead ala Govinda
DB is a small film.He is doing 2 action films.One with prabhideva,one with ashutosh gowarikar.In HF2 he is playing action hero role.Joker is the risky film.And there is OUTIM2 which is also an action film.
Even I want Akshay to stop doing comedy films.I think he realises that this genre is exhaustred.
Hopefully He will strengthen his position as No1 star since 2007.
Having almost no taste for these comedies I cannot be definitive on this but I wonder if Akshay’s last half dozen comedies are really so much poorer than the half dozen prior to this. Check out this review:
Raja Sen mauls the film and gives it one star. Generally also reviewers are a lot more unkind to Akshay’s comedies these days. Perhaps he’s just gotten too stale and there have been just too many films of his. But still there doesn’t seem to be a ‘metaphysical’ difference between what he was doing earlier and now.
Raja Sen is an idiot and I never care for what he thinks. This movie is going to be in Welcome/Housefull category. It is going to find its audience and will do about the same kind of business. It is getting repititive but there is a big chunk of audience that doesnt mind it.
This is the sort of criticism I have a problem with. If one is simply opposed to a genre one ought not to be reviewing such a film or one should at least add a caveat. If I were asked to review Thank You I’d decline. Because I don’t like the genre and I don’t think I could be fair to it. But reviewers often pretend as if it’s only about the film. But even if one has little taste for a genre there are some films that are better than others. This too cannot be accounted for in the Raja sen kind of criticism.
Having said that I find the other side as empty if not moreso on this stuff. Those other critics are only led by the box office. This whole ‘paisa vasool’ sense and other such nonsense. And again it comes equipped with the old move whereby one does not enjoy the film in question as much as one is happy for the phantom other who enjoys it instead and relieves one of the embarrassment of owning upto one’s own taste in this regard!
Also note how this ‘faux-democracy’ is never extended to other areas. Bourgeois types claim to champion the ‘common man’ (who is about as locatable as the abominable snowman) and the ‘masses’ but are never on their side in other social avenues and most importantly when it comes down to actual democracy! Then suddenly their choices become questionable or unenlightened or archaic ones and what not! The ‘common man’ is the buffer we need to enjoy Akshay’s comedies. Then when it’s a question of most films that do well only in multiplexes the same democratic impulses go out the window. Then no one cares about smaller centers or single screens or whatever. The ‘common man’ can then go to hell (not to be confused with a screening of KHNH).
But isn’t there a certain level of tastelessness that is inexcusable, no matter who the movie is made for, or what genre it belongs to?
I can excuse a film pandering shamelessly to the lowest common denominator, if that is its intention and it makes no pretensions about it. But so many recent Akki/ Anees ventures seem to have transcended the ‘crass comedy’ territory and plumbed new depths of offensiveness, crudeness and sexism, if the reviews are anything to go by.
Whoever your intended audience is, there is no excuse for a film where the romantic hero farts on a bride’s face (KI) or publicly assaults his girlfriend and harasses her to the point of suicide (Khatta Meetha).
I don’t disagree at all. And clearly they’re really trying to push the envelope further with every new film. But note also how his grosses actually increased when his films became more crass. So for example the first Hera Pheri didn’t open strong and did just about decently mostly on the strength of Bombay territory. And for a while the grosses were not huge even with the films that worked. But then the comedies became a lot more ‘in your face’ with a lot more ‘junk’ added and the initials suddenly got very big. Also while it might be true that too much sexual innuendo and so on scares away the audience plenty of crassness in other areas does not. Take G3 for example. I’ve just seen snippets here and there but is anything more offensive than Tushar in that film?! Or for that matter Houseful worked fairly well. Here you had Akshay and a monkey exchanging slaps! Could one honestly call this a less sexist film than the others? Again I’ve only seen extended trailers. So I think audiences do reward over the top comedies. Akshay might just have exhausted them. The more restrained comedy does well but not hugely. The only exception here is LRM which too opened very well but not as strong as some of the other big films that year, specially given how iconic the first one had become by that point. It then had super trending but that’s WOM. It should have opened at least 3-5 crores over what it did.
ROFLOL ! Raja Sen at least nails this one right…..
Sonam Kapoor spends most of the film realistically bawling her eyes out — presumably lamenting being in a film this moronic — and occasionally being shrill. Not being say, a Karisma Kapoor, she doesn’t fit into the idiocy at all.
Rimi Sen , by virtue of being in many a scriptless film, has learnt to PareshRawal-ise her expressions enough to count as halfway funny, or at least funny-looking, and even Bazmee decides to keep Celina Jaitley’s involvement to a minimum. (Thank You, Mr Director.)
Aside- rajen – you need to plan an” intervention” for satyam- he is watching Ramsays, Sunyana, next will be- Paap ko jala kar raakh kar doonga…..
I will pay for the lap dances…….
LOL! I ran through many of the Ramsays and some others. Alongside the smaller films. And then I suddenly got into a mood for 80s stuff. The advantage with the latter is that the good and bad films are often indistinguishable! Good thing you reminded me about Paap ko… this wasn’t all that bad!
ha ha, also watch- Chunauti, Kala sona, five rifles, bin fere hum tere,lahu ke do rang,bombay 405 miles, fakira, chambal kee kasam,Chor-Police, police public( actually good) etc……
February 26, 2011 at 2:58 PM
This might work..
February 26, 2011 at 3:12 PM
The plot reminds me of Masti….
February 26, 2011 at 3:17 PM
looks like no entry also. it wont be good. but hell if welcome was a hit then i don’t see why this wouldnt. to me its another crap film by akki.
February 26, 2011 at 3:21 PM
well bazmi’s No Problem bombed…
February 26, 2011 at 3:45 PM
That’s excatly what I thought. Looks pretty similar to NO ENTRY
Now am worried for READY (big time) coz the trailor was very poor and thats putting it mildly.
February 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM
It’s terrible. Poor Sonam or any actress stuck doing stuff like this.
February 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Think Irffan being here makes the casting somewhat fresh and Sonam helps too. Bobby Deol should of course be avoided in every conceivable situation!
February 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM
Who is Fool Here. Bazmi ? Akki ? or the viewers who pardon this type of film. Is iy a trailer or ctrl C+ ctrl V of Akki’s and Bazmi’s previous movies. I don’t know how you said This might work.
February 26, 2011 at 6:41 PM
there is so much Akki now its kind of nauseating to watch now. dude needs to relax and chill for awhile. to be honest its becoming like Govinda in the late 90′s and early 2000′s where he was in every other movie that released and totally wiped him out.
February 26, 2011 at 10:57 PM
I’m completely bewildered by this trailer.
Why is this there such a fetish for all things American? (starting with the intro music) Why can’t Indian films be set in India? If they’re going to set them abroad, why not get the facts right about the foreign society and culture? Akshay, Suneil, Irfan, and even Bobby are all good actors and are capable of doing so much better than what they are doing here. Why is a company like UTV (which I thought aspired to “quality” films) producing this kind of nonsense?
So many questions, so few answers, unless it is all contained in the one word “money.”
February 26, 2011 at 11:42 PM
“So many questions, so few answers, unless it is all contained in the one word “money.”
I think you have found the answer.
February 27, 2011 at 7:31 AM
“Akshay, Suneil, Irfan, and even Bobby are all good actors”
Not sure whether your initial question (this late in Bollywood history) perplexes me more or this assertion here. Have a heart and have mercy on Irrfan! Then again I guess he placed himself in this august company of thespians. This is where a paycheck gets you!
Will agree that UTV shouldn’t produce this. I too was surprised to see their logo here. It certainly damages their image.
February 27, 2011 at 8:35 AM
I didn’t say they were all “equally” good. I was just disagreeing with your earlier comment that one should always avoid Bobby. But yes, they are each capable of doing much better roles than these.
As for my “initial question” – did you mean about the American fetish? Maybe because I usually don’t watch these kinds of films, it catches me by surprise every time. Precisely because they’ve been doing this now for so many years, and with much better access to information and experience (for example, many of the younger set of actors have actually lived in the U.S. for shorter or longer periods, and Akshay is actually either a permanent resident or citizen of Canada), it puzzles me that such bizarre distortions still persist.
February 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM
I should talk, though. I just watched the beginning of a Chiranjeevi movie from 2005 which opens with Arbaaz Khan trying to smuggle some weapons from an American port. When the captain of the ship questions him about this, he shoots the captain dead, and then gives a briefcase of cash to the rest of the crew and sails off without any problem!
(you really need a rolling eyes smiley here)
February 27, 2011 at 10:04 PM
OK, my bad, I didn’t check my typing, and I accidentally posted under the wrong username above. Sorry.
February 26, 2011 at 11:46 PM
As many members have already mentioned how ‘CRAP’ the trailor is I just want to say……
Bazmee’s last (NO PROBLEM) was mental torture and now I am extremely worried for bhai’s READY. I don’t want to sound extreme but this year could make and dare I say break (or seriously) dent the credentials of Bazmee.
Now am thinking on the lines of SLB (poles apart in the films they make) but both started off so well. Bazmee wrote one of Dhawan’s greatest films AANKHEN and gave the memorable (for me anyway) PYAR TO HONA HI THA. Then in my opinion made a good thriller in DEWANGEE and then with NO ENTRY entered the big league (biggest hit of the year). After that I found all his films poor except WELCOME.
Now we all know the films Bhansali has made and his last 2-3 have been pretty bad.
The regular occurence that comes to my mind is that with each film (well there last few films) the films content wise have been short of dreadful.
Now Bhansali is in a predicament and will be interesting to see what he comes up with next but Bazmee needs to consolidate his position otherwise run the risk of being in the position of Bhansali.
Now I don’t know if I’ve made any sense lol coz the difference in these two directors is evidently different and thank god for that. I just wanted to show that sometimes directors lose the plot and think just because they have a credible filmography and have made some memorable films in the past that they can produce mediocre stuff and in the case of films like NO PROBLEM, utter trash.
@ sm – btw I think the film has been shot in Toronto/Canada but yeah agree completely too many films (especially Nadiadwala films and KJO films are shot in the same places in America/London and now they have added Canada to the list lol
February 27, 2011 at 12:18 AM
The establishing shots at the beginning of the trailer don’t look like Toronto to me. They could be from Seattle (I thought I saw the space needle).
February 27, 2011 at 12:25 AM
hahahah
The reason I’m laughing is coz I found the trailor so bad I couldn’t remember much about it even few secs after viewing it.
However, I do know they have filmed in Toronto and most probably in other foreign locales. So, you could be right.
February 27, 2011 at 12:33 AM
never thought sonam would be the best thing about any movie but here she definetely was…extremely beautiful….movie looks like crap from the trailer with akshay acting like a buffoon again with his annoying smirks….irrfan gives some hope but i think he did this film for money which isnt that bad even naseer did alot of films for that reason…wont be surprised if it flops…and whats with that awful 70′s background song….horrible work by pritam
February 27, 2011 at 4:45 AM
Wasn’t there a David Dhawan movie with a similar theme – I think ‘Shaadi No 1′ or something?
February 27, 2011 at 5:46 AM
Agree with Naveed and others here—Bazmi is sitting on some serious debacles here.
As for akki, Dont think he is that foolish. He has stopped thinking about no1 and the “race” etc.
He is making good money and at the same time, doing them at a v good pace. He cares a damn about “spacing out releases” and “varying genres”.
In other words, he wants to make hay while the sun shines—So whilst this wont last for long, Akki wants to milk this phase financially to the hilt..
After that, inevitably, Akki may go the govinda way. But does he care, if he has alreayd made mega crores and has had umpteen releases….In other words, the aims and motivations are different than say, srk or aamir…
February 27, 2011 at 7:48 AM
oh my god
crap crap crap = disaster
that’s all i have to say
February 27, 2011 at 9:42 AM
The latest trailers of several films all have the same look with a whole lot of half naked women thrusting, wiggling and falling on the single man present in their midst (the hero more often than not).
February 27, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Is this some kind of ‘male fantasy’? LOL!
After answering sm’s question, please answer this question too.
February 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM
If you thought the trailer was bad
[new trailer added to post]
February 27, 2011 at 10:22 AM
The trailer gives the idea that the story is similar to Masti or Shaadi no 1.
March 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM
YUKK !!! y is akshay doing this to himself…if janabe aali wasnt bad enuff he is now come up with another crappy pyar lo pyar do track…gives a feel of Bgrade porn movie
March 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM
dISASTER……..
March 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM
what in the hell???? this is so stupid. i truly hope this movie bombs after seeing this latest song called ‘razia’. this has to be one of the cheapest songs ive ever seen.
March 12, 2011 at 3:54 AM
BAzmi seems to be a specialist in “cheating your wife or girlfriend” scenarios.
Not surprisingly, some peolpe felt that “thank you” is actully the leftover script he had written for “no entry2″!!!
March 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Sonam looks great here..
March 23, 2011 at 7:47 AM
Okay, so the movie features a lot of white women dancing around in bikinis, who get slapped by Akshay for no reason. WTH? How did the censor board even allow something so misogynistic to pass through? Since when did abusing women become an acceptable dance move?
March 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Only in akki movies
March 23, 2011 at 11:49 AM
On a more serious note I saw a video of TY team on BH and it was exceedingly cheap. Is this what it has come to now in promoting ones film. Shame
March 27, 2011 at 2:15 AM
Akshay is the No1 star since 2007.lets see how Thank you does.
March 27, 2011 at 7:36 AM
LOL sunil
Thanks for the early morning joke.
March 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Thank You looks like Trash
WTf has happened to Anil Bazmee?
Is he the same guy who made amazing films like Pyar to hona hi tha
& No Entry?
March 28, 2011 at 7:45 PM
@ KM – he also made DEWANGEE I think. Since NO ENTRY Anees Bazmee has lost the plot. The quality of his films (exception of WELCOME in some parts) has been dreadful. It was torture watching SIK and the recent NO PROBLEM. TY looks even worse and at this point looks like a disaster. I don’t even think it will open well.
@ satyam – now if TY fails misreably will that have a knock on effect on READY?
March 28, 2011 at 8:32 PM
I think for now the Salman factor should be enough of an override given this will be his first film post-Dabanng. Also with Akshay this stuff is now beyond stale. For some mysterious reason he refuses to stop. and unless the films are really good they won’t work. Getting back to Ready it of course eventually depends on what kind of film Bazmee has made. I think he’s been distracted lately doing too many things.
March 28, 2011 at 10:52 PM
Thanks for replying Satyam
Now I’m no Akki fan but even I now want him to be careful coz he really is ruining his career (if I can say that). The guy has TY, HF 2, DB, JOKER all within the next 12 months and from what I know all are pretty similar. Now that really is dreadful. The audience today are not as patient as before and soon will get fed up.
Anyway let’s see what happens. For the very little I know TY may open huge.
March 29, 2011 at 9:40 AM
Yes i forgot Deewanigi – a bit flawed but a good film
March 29, 2011 at 9:46 AM
Re. Akshay
I have this theory…….
I may be wrong
But i think he realises that he is a 1 trick pony and therefore has been signing films (with big sign-on fees) like there’s no tomorrow. He’s basically piling up the money for the hard times which lie ahead ala Govinda
March 31, 2011 at 1:36 PM
DB is a small film.He is doing 2 action films.One with prabhideva,one with ashutosh gowarikar.In HF2 he is playing action hero role.Joker is the risky film.And there is OUTIM2 which is also an action film.
Even I want Akshay to stop doing comedy films.I think he realises that this genre is exhaustred.
Hopefully He will strengthen his position as No1 star since 2007.
April 7, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Having almost no taste for these comedies I cannot be definitive on this but I wonder if Akshay’s last half dozen comedies are really so much poorer than the half dozen prior to this. Check out this review:
http://www.rediff.com/movies/report/movie-review-thank-you/20110407.htm
Raja Sen mauls the film and gives it one star. Generally also reviewers are a lot more unkind to Akshay’s comedies these days. Perhaps he’s just gotten too stale and there have been just too many films of his. But still there doesn’t seem to be a ‘metaphysical’ difference between what he was doing earlier and now.
April 7, 2011 at 10:55 AM
Raja Sen is an idiot and I never care for what he thinks. This movie is going to be in Welcome/Housefull category. It is going to find its audience and will do about the same kind of business. It is getting repititive but there is a big chunk of audience that doesnt mind it.
April 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM
This is the sort of criticism I have a problem with. If one is simply opposed to a genre one ought not to be reviewing such a film or one should at least add a caveat. If I were asked to review Thank You I’d decline. Because I don’t like the genre and I don’t think I could be fair to it. But reviewers often pretend as if it’s only about the film. But even if one has little taste for a genre there are some films that are better than others. This too cannot be accounted for in the Raja sen kind of criticism.
Having said that I find the other side as empty if not moreso on this stuff. Those other critics are only led by the box office. This whole ‘paisa vasool’ sense and other such nonsense. And again it comes equipped with the old move whereby one does not enjoy the film in question as much as one is happy for the phantom other who enjoys it instead and relieves one of the embarrassment of owning upto one’s own taste in this regard!
Also note how this ‘faux-democracy’ is never extended to other areas. Bourgeois types claim to champion the ‘common man’ (who is about as locatable as the abominable snowman) and the ‘masses’ but are never on their side in other social avenues and most importantly when it comes down to actual democracy! Then suddenly their choices become questionable or unenlightened or archaic ones and what not! The ‘common man’ is the buffer we need to enjoy Akshay’s comedies. Then when it’s a question of most films that do well only in multiplexes the same democratic impulses go out the window. Then no one cares about smaller centers or single screens or whatever. The ‘common man’ can then go to hell (not to be confused with a screening of KHNH).
April 7, 2011 at 12:29 PM
But isn’t there a certain level of tastelessness that is inexcusable, no matter who the movie is made for, or what genre it belongs to?
I can excuse a film pandering shamelessly to the lowest common denominator, if that is its intention and it makes no pretensions about it. But so many recent Akki/ Anees ventures seem to have transcended the ‘crass comedy’ territory and plumbed new depths of offensiveness, crudeness and sexism, if the reviews are anything to go by.
Whoever your intended audience is, there is no excuse for a film where the romantic hero farts on a bride’s face (KI) or publicly assaults his girlfriend and harasses her to the point of suicide (Khatta Meetha).
April 7, 2011 at 1:06 PM
I don’t disagree at all. And clearly they’re really trying to push the envelope further with every new film. But note also how his grosses actually increased when his films became more crass. So for example the first Hera Pheri didn’t open strong and did just about decently mostly on the strength of Bombay territory. And for a while the grosses were not huge even with the films that worked. But then the comedies became a lot more ‘in your face’ with a lot more ‘junk’ added and the initials suddenly got very big. Also while it might be true that too much sexual innuendo and so on scares away the audience plenty of crassness in other areas does not. Take G3 for example. I’ve just seen snippets here and there but is anything more offensive than Tushar in that film?! Or for that matter Houseful worked fairly well. Here you had Akshay and a monkey exchanging slaps! Could one honestly call this a less sexist film than the others? Again I’ve only seen extended trailers. So I think audiences do reward over the top comedies. Akshay might just have exhausted them. The more restrained comedy does well but not hugely. The only exception here is LRM which too opened very well but not as strong as some of the other big films that year, specially given how iconic the first one had become by that point. It then had super trending but that’s WOM. It should have opened at least 3-5 crores over what it did.
April 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM
ROFLOL ! Raja Sen at least nails this one right…..
Sonam Kapoor spends most of the film realistically bawling her eyes out — presumably lamenting being in a film this moronic — and occasionally being shrill. Not being say, a Karisma Kapoor, she doesn’t fit into the idiocy at all.
Rimi Sen , by virtue of being in many a scriptless film, has learnt to PareshRawal-ise her expressions enough to count as halfway funny, or at least funny-looking, and even Bazmee decides to keep Celina Jaitley’s involvement to a minimum. (Thank You, Mr Director.)
April 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Aside- rajen – you need to plan an” intervention” for satyam- he is watching Ramsays, Sunyana, next will be- Paap ko jala kar raakh kar doonga…..
I will pay for the lap dances…….
April 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM
LOL! I ran through many of the Ramsays and some others. Alongside the smaller films. And then I suddenly got into a mood for 80s stuff. The advantage with the latter is that the good and bad films are often indistinguishable! Good thing you reminded me about Paap ko… this wasn’t all that bad!
April 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM
ha ha, also watch- Chunauti, Kala sona, five rifles, bin fere hum tere,lahu ke do rang,bombay 405 miles, fakira, chambal kee kasam,Chor-Police, police public( actually good) etc……
April 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Kala Sona I actually own! Police Public is a good reminder. Some of the others I either remember or don’t like much.
May 13, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Saw Thank You= Faltu
this one is even worse than Kambakht Ishq….