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Dedh Ishqiya Review

On January 10, 2014

Dedh Ishqiya Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Madhuri Dixit, Huma Qureshi, Vijay Raaz

Director: Abhishek Choubey

Runtime: 145 Minutes

Beautiful Urdu poetry, the nawabi culture, Great Music and strong Humor is what binds Dedh Ishqiya together even with small lapses in the tempo. For the same reason, couldn’t match the stature Ishqiya continues to have but is still entertaining in more ways than one.

Naseeruddin Shah-Arshad Warsi, a suave combo, with the bonding displayed perfectly under the direction of Abhishek Choubey.

[Check out another Naseeruddin Shah’s movie review]

Vijay Raaz fills in with his magic and stands out among the cast.

At the same time, you also have the ever mesmerizing Madhuri. Huma Qureshi gives Arshad Company by playing the role of his leading lady. Pack it all up with Urdu-rich dialogues and you have Dedh Ishqiya entertaining you.

Pack it all up with Urdu dialogues and you have Dedh Ishqiya trying to entertain you.

The plot revolves around Begum Para (Madhuri)’s Swayamvar of sorts through a Shayri competition. Khaalu (Naseeruddin), Jaan Mohammad (Vijay Raaz) being the competitors for the coveted position of becoming Nawab. Babban (Arshad) joins in the party to catch hold of Khaalu who seem to have ran away after taking away their “prized catch” in a theft all alone.

The story has its many predictable twists but with the addition of humor, playful romance delivered with impeccable Urdu dialogues brings in the rush. One scene where Vijay Raaz’s men and Khaalu-Babban get into a fight is hilarious in its approach. The

One scene where Vijay Raaz’s men and Khaalu-Babban get into a fight is hilarious in its approach. Not to be mistaken, the humor isn’t aged but includes iPhone, IRCTC’s wait-listing dilemma, etc which are intelligently made use of to give a fresh feel.

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Casting and dialogues are perfect while the screenplay runs smooth too. Occasionally when it tries to dig deep down the emotional corridor, ends up missing the flow and falls short of being the dark-in-parts-comedy it could have easily been. The humorously crafted scenes throughout the length of Dedh Ishqiya do bring the flow back and this is what makes the film entertaining.

The music in Dedh Ishqiya has been given by Vishal Bharadwaj, which is soothing and follows the similar theme as its prequel. A peppy number in Horn OK please and soothingly romantic Dil ka Mijaaz later.

On the whole, Dedh Ishqiya doesn’t go beyond the magic created by Ishqiya but as a separate movie in itself is entertaining and keeps you asking for more from the ensemble of its cast.

I’m going with a 3.5/5 for Dedh Ishqiya. It isn’t perfect, but would do.

Product Placement in Movies

By farooq

On January 4, 2014

In Movies & Entertainment

Krissh exclaims to a child, who is in awe of his superpowers, “If you want to become like me, drink Bournvita”, Krishh, portrayed by Hrithik Roshan, had a minimum of 7 scenes where Bournvita was either offered to a guest or was placed on the dining table for the world to notice. The health drink company also had an association with the prequel to Krishh, Koi mil gaya.

In case you’ve watched Taal or Dhoom 2, you must have evidently seen Coca Cola gracing the scenes. Recently released Bollywood movies like Chennai express (Nokia Lumia) or Dabang (Suzuki Hayate) have shown us how effectively brands can be used along with the story. There have been many movies which have been made centered around particular brands, such as “Mere dad ki Maruti” using Maruti in their story-line itself.

This practice of including brands/products into the midst of a program, be it movies or a TV Series, by actually placing the products in various scenes, is referred to as Product placement.

Wikipedia defines Product placement as “any form of audiovisual commercial communication consisting of the inclusion of or reference to a product, a service or the trade mark thereof so that it is featured within a programme”. Product placement stands out as a marketing strategy because it is imperative to attach the utmost importance to “the context and environment within which the product is displayed or used’ and when it comes to movies, the director does a pretty good job to make things look interesting. Although, sometimes it does get a little overboard but nevertheless, they do end up sending the message that they intended to send across the audiences, i.e., advertise.

The audience may skip the advertisements, may not pay heed to the ones that come in between their entertainment mode, but when it comes to product placement, they are in a way held captive to watch it.

These are commercial insertions amalgamated into scenes to heighten the visibility of the brand not only to send out the “advertised message” serving as breaks in the storyline, but as an eternal part of the story. They also make it a point to modify the scenes in order to make it appealing.

There’s no hard and fast rules as to how this can be done, be it limiting it to just a mention, or keeping the brand in sight by the leads using them.

Fan-following of stars, as well as the effectiveness of the characters they portray on screen plays a key role in making the product placement effective.

It dates back to the nineteenth century in publishing. By the time Jules Verne published the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), he was a world-renowned writer extent transport and shipping companies lobbied to be mentioned in the story as it was published in serial form. Whether he was actually paid to do so or not remains unknown.

Product placement has come to much modifications and improvisations ever since. Hollywood has used this to its advantage. Product placement could be a source of sizable financing. The best example is Die another day (2002) which received between 120 and 160 million dollars from the associated brands in royalties and publicity support during the movie launch.

And how can we forget, Bond movies, when we are talking about Product placement?

Be it Jaguar or Aston martin, or a series of other cars, many have found screen space in the movies. Even beverages like Smirnoff find a way to shape some of the scenes in the movie.

Over the years, though the products or brands have been evaluated before being included in the films. They need to sync in with the personality of the stars, because these have a higher visibility and recall value than even the traditional advertisements.

In a study conducted, where children were shown the movie Home Alone, where Pepsi had a sizeable screen time, and after this were offered to choose between Pepsi and Coke. 67% of those who watched the Movie chose Pepsi, while only 42% who didn’t saw the movie, chose Pepsi over coke.

One of the greatest communication campaigns is definitively BMW’s The Hire online marketing campaign.

BMW launched 8 short movies directed by the best directors. This series of 8 “episodes” called, The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the lead character and the link between the different parts received tangible results and heaps of awards.

The sales of BMW did shot up, post the release of these ad-cum-short films, winning awards and laurels all across, with a viewership of 45 million in over two years.

The brands as well as movie producers keep coming up with innovative and interesting ways on incorporating them in films and companies won’t mind shelling extra to get higher visibility, which will serve them well in not just immediate future but also in the long run.

The Wolf Of Wall Street

By farooq

On January 3, 2014

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Leonardo di Caprio, Jonah hill, Mathew McConaughey, Margot Robbie

Director: Martin Scorsese

Runtime: 179 Minutes

Right from the first scene, you are sure that it is going to be a crazy ride for the three effing hours, and hell yeah you won’t be disappointed. The crazy ride hooks you onto your seat, laughing your heads off scene by scene, by trying to not make any sense, with perfectly crafted dialogues to blow you to bits. The biggest strength is its perfect casting and tight screenplay which doesn’t let you blink away from the plot of the movie.

The movie is based on Jordan Belfort’s life and the plot of the movie centers around him and the securities’ fraud and corruption, through a narrative which takes the story from a rookie wannabe Stock Broker and how his zeal and greed for money makes him achieve all what he did into becoming an accomplished-have-it-all Stock broker and a firm to his credit, of course by not following a straight path to success.

Di Caprio eases into the role like it’s his own flamboyant lifestyle in display. Acting out the scenes, “getting high” from the numerous drugs/weed/what-not or even mere expressions, are done with ease. One scene where he gets high and is almost semi-paralyzed and ahs to get to his car, is brilliantly done making you laugh like you’ve never done before.

Even though the plot centers around di Caprio, mostly every other character occupies solid screen space to show off and ultimately it is the whole package that makes you enjoy the pure fun.

Matthew McConaughey, playing the role of Di caprio’s mentor in the first firm he joins as a stock broker and who actually “advices” him to bring in drugs and prostitution into his lifestyle, steals the film’s initial moments with just his presence. Same can be said about Jonah Hill (Playing the role of Donie Azoff), who plays a supporting role as a partner to di Caprio and impresses you with his comic timing.

The movie runs at breathneck speed giving little respect to any sort of boredom that never creeps in. Director Martin Scorcese with his favorite Leonardo di Caprio brings in a flamboyant and yet-beleivable storyline out to the audience with almost no room for any slips in the journey. It is one of the Funniest movies one will ever see, with a slightly dark overtone and yet delivered with perfection.

I’m going with 4.5/5 for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street for the pure fun it brings to you.

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Bullet Raja : My Review

By farooq

On November 29, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Bullett Raja: My Review

Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Jimmy Sheirgill

Runtime: 140 Minutes

The best part about a Tigmanshu Dhulia movie is its characterization and perfectly detailed casting, where definite roles are attached to characters, with added intensity. This has remained the backdrop on which Dhulia has based his movies upon. Sadly, bullet raja, even with a strong ensemble of Dhulia’s regulars fails to achieve the same. Add to that the loose plot, where it swings to-and-fro quite predictably, without anything interesting. There are of course some good scenes, but are far and few scattered across the 140 minute ride of this Bullet. Sadly, that only lands the viewer on already explored ending.

The plot, like many of the most recent movies is based in the Hindi heartland of the politically-violent Uttar Pradesh, where two strangers (Saif Ali Khan as Raja and Jimmy sheirgill as Rudra) bump into each other at a wedding, hit it off , fire around lots of bullets (Unfortunately, not at each other so as to prevent us the misery), become the best of buddies and make some enemies right there too. Power, politics and Gangsters come hand in hand, and that is the underlying plot running through the movie. Put in certain clichés for a masala-entertainer like revenge for a friends’ death, Item number, Desi tamancha (Not to forget the song, which inspires you to fire them in a disco for the sake of dancing) and of course the heartthrob of directors these days for a masala flick, Sonakshi Sinha as the female lead.

Saif shows conviction, but there are only a few scenes where he justifies as to why he was chosen for this role, Sheirgill overdoes his cool gangster appearance, while Sonakshi fills up as just another female lead, where she just eats up the screen space (and yes, I’m not commenting on her size), which could have been used for so much more. The seasoned actors like Raj Babbar, Vipin Sharma, Ravi kishan and even Vidyut Jamwal brighten up the scenes with their small yet pivotal roles, and it is in these scenes where things look a bit smooth. Besides these, there is hardly anything which can hold things together, until the end where the suspense is predictable enough for you to guess it right from the climax.

The things that go for the movie is the pace, some cheeky dialogues, raw action scenes especially the ones involving Vidyut Jamwal, where he is believed to have designed and performed his own stunts and one off chase sequence involving our Bullet raja. It lacks intensity, stuffy and fails to increase the heat, as it’s tagline promises.

Bullet raja is not bad, but fails to fit into the over-viewed and saturated plots based around UP, with lots of violence and where the bad guy is the “hero”. Watch it, if you don’t have anything else to do, just by keeping the expectation levels to the minimum.

I’m going with 1.5 for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Bullet Raja, which is just another UP-centric movie without any intensity. A bullet’s ride which is worth missing.

Gori Tere Pyaar me :My review

By farooq

On November 22, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Imran Khan, Kareena kapoor, Shraddha kapoor, Anupam kher

Director: Punit Malhotra

Runtime: 148 minutes

If you plan to go for “Gori tere pyar me”, than prepare yourself for a double trouble of having to watch two movies in one., with both of them terribly made, of course as Imran khan graces both of them. If your idea of watching it as a Rom-com is what pushed you to a theatre then, surely that is going to put you to sleep.

The story is about Sridevi (that’s’ what our hero is called by his ladylove while he’s named SriRam), who returns to India from USA with an American lifestyle, and a never-to-care for family attitude and a total wreck at that. Falls in love with an extreme over-the-top social activist, Dia (Kareena kapoor), who is obsessed with her social work, so much so that she fakes to be a pregnant woman just to clear out the traffic and of course, even goes ahead in helping out a village come to terms with its development needs.

There’s an old looking hardcore-activist (kareena) with a boy (Imran), who never seemed be learning the trait of something called acting. The story revolves around Imran, and the major reason this ship sinks thanks to him too. He’s like a lost kid in every frame that is captured, be it with his Tamilian parents (who always speak accented hindi) or with Kareena, where he acts like a school kid coming to terms with a relationship with a woman. Scenes involving Shraddha kapoor are somehow mellowed down, thanks to the girls’ down to earth acting in a tam-bram girls’ role. Kareena seems to have put in very little effort and is kind of a happy-go-lucky approach in her role.

Songs are loud and may be great for the dj-nights being put up in various discotheques but sadly, you hardly have any good music coming out of it. Vishal-Shekhar didn’t seem to have invested too much thought on this, I guess. Some songs, even remind you of similar tunes. (Plaigiarised ? ).

Dialogues are neither funny nor romantic, but surely there are many which will have a facepalm effect. Direction by Punit Malhotra is worse than his previous outing in “I hate Love story”, where misplaced priorities through the script, makes it worse for him. The story could have been cut short, rather than stuff in too much in almost 2 hours 30 minutes, and the casting could have been given a little more thought upon.

The movie tries to complicate and advances itself onto many routes, which basically is copying other similar movies of the genre and being shoved into this new bottle. It’s boring and lousy, with some terrible piece writing and a bit long for a Rom-com which it was supposed to be. I’ll highly advice you to not waste your time running after the two “Goris” in the movie. One of them being Imran khan.

I’m going with a 1.5/5 for this boring rom-com.

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Goliyon ki Rasleela…Ramleela: My Review

By farooq

On November 15, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Runtime: 160 Minutes

Romeo and Juliet has been an alltime favourite for ages, varied adaptations have been featured in numerous movies. To this list one can add another name, Ram-Leela or as they were made to call it, “Goliyon ki raaslela..RamLeela” . Actually they couldn’t have defined the movie in more apt words. This fits perfectly. If you throw logic out of the window and adjust with the fact that the movie isn’t set in some different era, you may scrape out of this 3-hour long drama without a headache. It’s grand, colourful, sensuous with a violent beckdrop. Deepika padukone mesmerizes you with her looks and a little acting, while Ranvir singh looks confident, but only if he had limited his acting to not go overboard. Unlike other movies, the second half is better than the first only if you could hold yourself onto your seats.

The story is about a village with two arch-rival clans in Gujarat, who have been fighting among themselves for the last 500 years. No points for guessing that the lead pair belongs to the opposite teams, but ultimately fall in love. But it isn’t that simple, the love story is the thread that binds the violent clash and the dilemma involved in trying to get rid of this enmity, which is a lost cause. Its’ filled with drama in every sense, and all the possible tricks in the “book of dramatization” (if there’s any like it) has been used, so much so that you might mistake some of the scenes to be straight out of an Indian Soap opera.

The lead pair of Deepika and Ranveer has a very sensuous chemistry, which makes the story not turn on to be a totally boring affair. The script gave them the luxury of enough leg space to spread their legs out in this comeback vehicle for SLB. Other characters, like Supriya Pathak do infuse a certain degree of effort, but its’ all below the surface and the only thing which shines out are Ram and Leela. Perhaps, that’s what SLB wanted to. Although it is to be mentioned, half of the credits have Bhansali’s name with them, along with being the Director.

The music has been incorporated wonderfully, with songs every now and then, but then that’s what you expect from a Sanjay Leela Bhansali movie. The song-dance sequences are grand and colorful, with regular reminders of Bhansali’s Hum Dil de chuke Sanam.

The problem with the movie is the length, draggy first half and is somehow like the Gujrati-version of Ishaqzaade, which itself wasn’t anything totally new. But yes, the chemistry between the lead pair and the sensuous Deepika is not just a treat to watch but its’ she who anchors the Ram-Leela ship along the process.

I’m going with a 2.5/5 for “Goliyon ki rasleela, Ram-leela”, a one-time watch where a little patience would come handy.

Shahid: My Review

By farooq

On October 18, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Raj Kumar Yadav, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayub, Prabhleen Sandhu

Director: Hansal Mehta

Runtime: 123 Minutes

Gripping you to your seats, with each scene appearing as if just out of the real life of Shahid Azmi, reality just takes a solid transformation and Raj Kumar infuses amazing strength into the character, making you relate with him like never before and all this without compromising on anything, and just displaying great clarity in thought, Shahid is a hard-hitting take on the life of a lawyer, which surely is one of the finest movies of this year.

“You are acquitted of all the charges, and the court is extremely sorry for everything you and your family suffered in the 2.5 years of you being behind the bars”, the court declared when Shahid Azmi was released. This was what became his mission, post becoming a lawyer, to bail out all the innocent Muslim youths’ out of the jail who have been arrested under TADA, same as that of him.

Hansal Mehta( Who directed part of dus kahaniyan) has taken great care in not dramatizing even one bit, and just simply makes his actors bring out their best to be portrayed out on the screen. The casting is perfect, from the protagonist Shahid (Raj Kumar) to his elder brother who supports him in each of his decisions without questioning him for a second time (Mohd zeeshan Ayub of Ranjhanaa fame) and Shahid’s client-turned Love interest turned-wife (Prabhleen Sandhu) and their simple love story and the conflicts from time to time, have been beautifully captured the way it is meant to be.

The family-life, from where Shahid grew up, when he went to jail, returned and even got married, has been portrayed the way it actually happens and not over-dramatized to punch it up and that is the beauty of Shahid. It grows on you, scene by scene. The jail-time Shahid is part of, becomes livelier due to the presence of Kay Kay Menon, who carves out the perspective of Shahid to resume his studies and he comes of age to become a lawyer striving for the innocent youth and the judiciary which simply ends up manufacturing more and more terrorists.

There are not one, two or three things for which you need to watch this masterpiece. Its’ simply a story, something which makes you ponder over a lot of things in the system and empowers you to at least think, that you should do something for the system too. A system which needs to breed equality rather than injustice based on a name.

I’m going with 4.5/5 for Shahid. It’s simply a masterpiece.

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Boss: My Review

By farooq

On October 16, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakrabarty, Aditi rao hydari

Director: Anthony D’souza

Runtime: 150 Minutes

Boss surely has a good star-cast to boast off, the storyline isn’t weak for starters and the actors don’t let you down either. But its’ not as rosy as it sounds, too much of sanskar-laden dialogues, the 60’s masala twists with comedy to make it look cool and simply nothing new on the platter to entertain you. Boss, simply put is another level of boredom inducing capsule which you take to remind yourself that you still watch the typical bollywood movie, which tries to make too much sense.

One good thing about Akshay Kumar, who plays Boss in this remake of South hit Pokkiri Raja, is that he doesn’t repeat the mindless movie acting that he has regularly been associated with, but then this is obviously not some great improvement as such. One parkour sequence looks better than the hero-does-it-single-handedly fight stunts scattered around the length.

The long list of actors include Mithun Chakraborty who plays the dad of Boss (Akshay Kumar), Balraj Sahni (his uncle), Shiv Pandit (his brother), Danny denzongpa (Big Boss to our Akki boss), Ronit roy (Playing the bad cop), Aditi Rao hydari (Playing the love interest of Shiv and sister to Ronit roy) and although, you cannot individually find faults with any of them, yet collectively they seem to be a misfit in some order.

Ronit roy, although is one shining star of the movie, doing full justice to the kind of role he was made to portray. He can be real bad, and he leaves no stone unturned in achieving the same. Actors like Johny lever and Sanjay mishra were wasted, where they could have brought in the comic element act just as fillers.

The background music is terrible in visually syncing certain emotional scenes as well as in making the action-packed scenes become interesting. The songs are not only mis-placed but only try to somehow bring up the dancer in Akshay out (No, don’t search for it, you won’t find it).

Anthony D’Souza, as director does makes the actors, who are masters of their craft act, but fails to stitch it up and fails in this big department. And the dialogue and Screenplay team doesn’t help either.

The movie isn’t a comedy, or action or even drama but tries hard to fit in bits of everything. The dialogues are perhaps copied from movies and soap operas of yesteryears and been put in, because the ones coming out from the character’s mouth, surely makes you want an aspirin to ward of the headache from the sanskar-overdose.

It’s better not to indulge in something which has nothing exciting to it and with a length of 2 hours and 30 minutes, takes a lot of effort for you to take interest in what is going on the screen.

I’m going with 1.5/5 for Akshay Kumar starrer Boss. Worth a Miss.

Gravity :My Review

By farooq

On October 11, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Runtime: 90 minutes

The best part about Gravity is, it makes you feel the lack of it, takes you in space right from the first Visual. An exceptionally picturised outer-space greets you, all across the simple-yet-effective survival story. Although, a bit around the middle of this short plot, it takes a small fall but jumps back to give a perfect ending.

Sandra bullock (Playing Dr. Ryan) is a first-timer along with the veteran Astronaut George Clooney( Matt Kowalski) for an Explorer mission, but then a missile strike on a Russian sateliite creates a chain reaction of debris destroying most of the satellites in outer space, and Explorer (the satellite they are working on) was no different. With only two of them left, the survival story begins.

Apart from using just two actors, the only other star of the movie is its’ brilliant soundtrack by Stephen Price. The space mini-odyssey wouldn’t have been complete without its’ musical presence along with the visual appeal the movie brings upon.

George Clooney, fills the movie with his charm and makes the moments enjoyable and helps steer Sandra Bullocks’ life ship in the movie whenever required. Meanwhile giving the story a boost up whenever it tried to seep into the boring-o-sphere. Sandra Bullock appears good in patches and its’ the last 20 minutes, which brings out the best in her.

Everything works well for the movie, directed by Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaben director Alfonso Cuarón, who directs Gravity, which is sure to be rated as one of the best made space survival story. The special effects are good and the soundtrack even better, there’s hardly anything which you can find fault with. Except, the small duration where the slow and lonely space makes its’ presence felt, but the short duration of the movie is there for your rescue.

The short, beautiful and calm movie with your 3D glasses on is a treat ignoring some of the slow moving scenes around the middle. But the climax with a good ending makes up for that. Don’t miss this.

I’m going with a 3.5/5 for Gravity, which makes you love outer-space.

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Besharam Review: You’ll feel sharam to watch this

By farooq

On October 2, 2013

In Movies & Entertainment

Besharam Review:

It’s better not to waste yourself on trying to be any besharam by watching this fiasco. It’s disappointing, to say the least.

Director: Abhinav Kashyap

Cast:Ranbir kapoor, Pallvi sharda, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Javed Jaffery

Runtime: 138 Minutes.

Besharam is terribly besharam in its’ entirety which never starts to make sense right from the start. An essence of late 60-70’s and a lot of Govinda-styled-movies is what runs through the storyline as inspiration and clearly doesn’t work. The ending provides some consolation with a spoofy act involving Rishi-Neetu-Ranbir, but even that cannot compensate in the name of entertaining considering the torture that one has to bear through the 2 hours before this.

Besharam’s Plot:

Our Robinhood, stealing Cars and helping the orphanage kids, where he himself grew up. He then ends up falling in love with an arrogant, class-conscious and always-in-a-bad-mood Girl (Pallavi Sharda). The villain in the story is a Hawala Gangster Bheem Singh (Javed Jaffery), who get involved due to the “Super-swift-thief” Babbly. Although as his antics unfold, you start doubting that title being bestowed on the hero. Besharam’s story develops, as to how this love story grows, albeit in old-fashioned and uninteresting manner.

Ranbir kapoor seems to be in a vacation-of-sorts by not just looking like a total mess but acting to complement his besharam looks. Seriously, showing off your hairy chest time and again, bathing nude and cracking jokes just increases the decibels of annoyance. Leave aside the acting part; he seems to be totally lost as a character itself.

Pallavi is even worse, not just she looks a complete mis-match for Ranbir. There’s not an ounce of Chemistry while she oozes an excessive dose of arrogance as if she’s going to kill the next person she places her eyes on. She does over-act, however. Her character is the most annoying of them all.

Not that the presence of Rishi-Neetu provides any solace, personal life parallels being dragged in to make the audience laugh. Even going down to the unnecessary level of showing Rishi Kapoor trying to get over with “Nature’s call”, where his wife, helps him from outside the door by making him angry to “ease it off” and trust me, it ends up looking gross.

The ultimate problem is with the direction though, where Dabanng director Abhinav Kashyap, thinks he can get away with anything. It may have worked with Salman’s flamboyance but falls flat this time.

The music by Lalit Pandit isn’t much to be written about, except the one song by Shreya Ghosal and Sonu Nigam titled “Tu hai”, which is good.

It’s an extended headache involving some over-the-top display of besharmi that tries very hard to make sense but sadly has nothing in its’ offering to accomplish that.

I’m going with a 1/5 for Abhinav Kashyap’s Besharam. It’s better not to waste yourself on trying to be any besharam by watching this fiasco. It’s disappointing, to say the least.