Let me say just for the record that I like Rohan Sippy movies ... I mean i luvd Bluffmaster... Simply luvd it...So i was really excited for his new release... the posters were fantastically done... Good music.. Nice color...Premier show after ages.. To top it all it had the two things I am really really mad about - Goa and Deepika!!! So I told myself 'Wat the hell!!' and just like that i forgot all about my resolution(Yeah i had kinda taken a vow of not going for any bollywood movie ever again) and went for it... I mean how bad it cud it get...
So the movies starts with a dead body... so far so good i said... Then for the next half an hour i had to listen to the most irritating voices in Bollywood... I mean it was like torture to my ears.. Prateik seriously dude u need to do something about it...I would have given him the benefit of the doubt cos for some reason the audio quality of this movie was really pathetic...Moving on... typical first plot.. teenage love story..Rich girl poor guy...both apply at the same coll.. girl gets thru guy doesn't..sob sob ...poor guy has to have a criminal frnd who offers help at a price...poor guy gets embroiled in illegal activities...
NOTE - Mr. Sippy if u wanna show an innocent teen in luv kinda character well dont let him do it with any random chick just cos he his angry !!!
Similarly more plots introducing all the stars are thrown at ur face... poor unoriginal plots...Bipasha plays the poor girl who wants to become an air hostess but cant ...She is in love with Rana who is a musician and a close friend of Prateik... Aditya is Ranas boss who ends up taking advantage of Bipasha making her his mistress... How totally Riveting!! Amidst all this there is Abhishek playing the corrupt cop who loses his family in an accident with a druggie....On the verge of suicide he gets a second chance to clean up Goa...He conveniently turns into a crime fighting super hero...
NOTE - Mr. Sippy u seriously need to watch some RGV or Prakash Jha movies to understand how u make cop movies and make them look realistic....
So in a rather lame attempt to intertwine these characters and their sad stories the first half of the movies ended up becoming a little too fragmented... Only highlight was the Abhishek rap...nicely done...quite catchy!!!
NOTE - Mr. Sippy what u really need are math lessons cos when u compare the weights of 2 identical bags one of which contains a hidden packet of 6kgs of cocaine the difference wud most certainly not come 2kgs...Beauty lies in the details Mr. Sippy...
So after thoroughly enjoying my hard earned intermission of just 10mins which was so not enough to get over the lame first half; i was dragged myself back to my seat for more torture...The second half was all about finding the mystery villain which never existed, proving that the director has never been to any rave parties or Goa cos he just cudnt capture the Goan vibe, Abhishek singlehandedly kickin a lot of ass, etc
NOTE - Mr. Sippy this is no longer the 70s where a hero would just go into the villains den just to say a couple of rather long n stupid dialogues...No sir we dont do tht anymore!!!
Finally after a hell lot of waiting and sitting thru crap came Deepika in the cutest and the shortest of the skirts.. best 5 mins the movies had to offer...Totally worth the wait...
The movie ends with a typical unoriginal twist...yawn
AS I SEE IT Abhishek can certainly pull off a cop act, Rana Prateik and Bipasha all look rather uninspired, Sridhar Raghavan writes an uninteresting cops and robbers chase, Goa just doesnt look Goa, decent music by Pritam, Rohan Sippy should stick to his forte which certainly is not a cop movie. So go for it only if you have absolutely nothing to do and somebody is financing it for you cos it is just aint worth your own money....
BOTTOM LINE : Dum Maaro Dum has no DUM in it!!!!
