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TASHAN - The Big Porducshun House,The Isstar Cast,The Pharmoola,The Ishtyle...(Notice...no one said plausible ishtory)
Forget the rating and enjoy some cinematic moments...
Debut Director Vijay Krishna Acharya (dialogue writer for D(h)oom'ed0 series,Guru) comes out with a masala pot boiler ....
You know something is wrong with your film when your film needs the crutches of heroines size zero (for her bikini scene)
and new found interest in her personal life as the films initial publicity rather than known for story / performance....
Continuing with the trend of cross and double cross,which few weeks back was amply shown in RACE,comes TASHAN...Looks like GREY is IN...Being Virtuous is no longer a Virtue in The Times of Cinema Today....
The Narrative Format of the movie is like a tribute to the movie making style of Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriquez and Tony Scott's of the world ...
Makes a very promising start,with snazzy credits (similar seen in Johnny Gaddar) and pulsating background score by the talented Ranjit Barot.
Opening scene of a red car swirling dangerously from left to right on a landscape lonely highway...before plunging into the river...(will someone tell me,why the number plates were different for the front and rear of the car ?may be the continuity dir was doozing off...)
Initial reels told from Saif's perspective...his life working for a Call Centre (Jeetendra kumar / Jimmy Cliff) and as a part time English Teacher. Pace,grip and witty dialogues bang on...where other characters are slowly and dramatically introduced...Kareena looking really anorexic...(Give me the curvy Kareena back any day....!!) Anil Kapoor as the outlandish larger than life gangster, the types only seen in our films, surrounded by extras redefining extra's and croony side kicks...Blabbering in sometimes funny and mostly unable to comprehend Hinglish....as an insult to the Queens Language...but hey remember we watching a masala film so you just need to sit back and ignore numerous cinematic liberties...
Akki,as the incorrigible and uncouth recovery agent from Kanpur is given a intro scene,the types that filmy heroes are given - front benchers surely going berserk for his bhojpuri dialogue delivery and body language...But hey the ram leela joke was lifted from Raju Shrivastava's joke from Laughter Challenge:-)No Sweat,it works here as well....
Some predictable Twists and lot of Unwanted Turns later the film reaches a climax which can surely put to shame any Rajinikanth movies...Akki doing his extended take on parakour (last seen in Casino Royale and the Thums Up Ad of Akki himself)...Action choreographed by Peter Hein (last did Sivaji, so m not surprised)...30 odd minutes of mindless,brain numbing action sequence...which the south indian audience may lap up without blinking...
You know what,in Bond movies whenever our sauve agent does something impossible or a dangerous stunts,its passed on along with the trademark BOND theme,numbing the audience as if to say-hey guys,he is THE BOND and can do anything...
Likewise, here any ridiculous action moment and the soundtrack blares...the TASHAN title song as the Get away song :-))
On the Upside,movie has visually stunning locales dizzyingly captured by the cameraman-Ayananyka Bose (last seen in JBJ),Pulsating,Youthful & Zesty music by Vishal Shekhar . Any good masala flick worth its salt is not complete without lavish song picturization ..Kareena sizzles starvingly (anyone for size ZERO??)in the bikini scene...:-))
Picturization of Dil Haara, Chaliyaa,Dance Maare (..kind of paying homage to Apna Desh)is spectacular,Witty dialogues,amazing chemistry between Saif-Kareena,Kareena-Akki and the goofy camaraderie between Saif and Akki...some funny moments by Anil Kapoor and his side croonies...
Hey this movie even marks the cute debut of Chote-Chote Nawab :-) Ibrahim Saif Ali Khan,as Saif Junior in the movie...
The point is we shamelessly copy movies from the west (sparring not even the posters!!) , why cant we also study,adapt and copy the logic,plausibility
and content from their movies as well ??...beats me,but then that day is not too far.... !
Catering to our wide spectrum of audience is indeed a difficult ball game for the movie makers, but please do not insult the intelligence of cinema watching nation !!
