8/10 is My Rating For Hulla, Because I Was Entertained Throughout
This post is sponsored byWhy the blazes are people giving 2/2.5 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was an 8/10 movie. Hulla had me and even my NRI buddy laughing from start to finish, and it did so without insulting my intelligence, which is all I bloody ask of a movie. So why the bally hell are critics on their high horses and their ivory towers and their glass houses dishing out merely average ratings to such an entertaining film? If people can give Om Shanti Om four star ratings for sheer entertainment value, what keeps them from doing the same for Hulla, which had the whole audience I watched it with laughing throughout? I’m sure the ratings would have been higher if this movie had a big name attached to it. Films about the middle class are about as rare as moments of privacy on Big Boss, and Hulla was a wonderful little Id ka chaand.
What second half? What the bally hell are people complaining about the second half for? The second half worked as well as the first half. In fact, the dream scene was especially fun and had everyone really cracking up.
I don’t generally read reviews and don’t watch any promos because I prefer to watch films with an unjaundiced mind. But I read the rediff review, and it diluted my intentions of watching Hulla, while at the same time the praise of the ‘first half’ made me curious about the possibility of maybe getting a few laughs.
My NRI buddy and I actually went to watch Rajat Kapoor’s Clown Prince Hamlet at Prithvi, but it was sold out, so we went to PVR Juhu instead, intending to catch maybe Righteous Kill. There was no show coming up, so I decided Hulla would be the next best thing; Rajat Kapoor is usually an indicator of good stuff. I got my heart attack of the week when we bought the tickets. 560 bucks! 280 bucks for a ticket! 280 f*%#ing bucks for a low-budget movie that might turn out to be a real pain! And that too, it was my treat! I owed my friend for my second viewing of The Dark Knight. As I walked in I was thinking to myself Okay, I’m f*$#ed. This is going to be a massive choona. Never have I paid 280 bucks for a ticket. For 280 bucks I could have caught four and a half morning shows at Movietime Malad, which is about a javelin’s throw from my flat.
The stockbrokering scenes were what first impressed me. Then Darshan Jariwala came on – I love his work – and I was mentally nodding. By the time Rajat Kapoor was done with his first scene I was actively liking the movie. It was a nice change to see Rajat Kapoor playing something other than a suave sophisticated man.
Mr Chandrachoor Karnik, who plays the watchman, was so effortlessly brilliant, I’d definitely nominate him for a couple of awards. Watching a great cast of actors is such a pleasurable experience. Kartika Rane was very natural. I prefer her anyday to assembly line bimbos whose acting skills are just a little more than those of a lingerie mannequin.
I’m actually writing this as a very passionate reaction to Jaideep Verma’s post about getting kicked in the solar plexus. I’m honestly surprised that reviews aren’t calling this film at least a ‘little gem’. I, for one, would like to publicly tell Jaideep that I enjoyed Hulla. So did my friend, even though he didn’t get some of the jokes because of not knowing the proper meaning of a few words like ‘dalaal’. And the theatre audience definitely enjoyed it. You could easily have canned the laughter and stuck it onto any sitcom. I would never spend 200+ bucks on a movie that I don’t think worthy of a big screen experience; I mean I’d pay that kind of money only for Terminator Salvation or Iron Man 2 or Transformers 2, but I honestly didn’t mind the 560 bucks I’d spent once Hulla ended. It was paisa vasool enough.
There’s some dumbsh!# commentator who’s commented somewhere “It was a bad film, accept it and try to connect with audience”. WTRoyalF?!? I usually don’t get hassled by negative comments, but this dismissive, mujhe-sab-aata-hai-couch-pe-baithe-baithe-tond-hilate-hilate tone really pissed me off. What this guy seriously needs is to go to a good surgeon and dramatically reduce the diameter of his posterior body orifice. Mr whoever-the-hell-you-are, in keeping with your brilliant suggestion to Jaideep Verma, this comment of mine is a bad comment, I accept it, and I have tried to connect with my audience. Get a life! Better still, go and watch Chetna-The Excitement or Love Story of a Naughty Boy. Guaranteed entertainment.
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@kenny
raja, jinke baare main tumne last paragraph main likha hai na
woh tabse is line main hain jab shayad tum paida bhi nahien hue the
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logic do boss logic
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rahi attitude dikhane ki baat
ye internet hai
asal main aamne samna ho to ek minute main faisala ho jaaye ki kiske gote goal hote hain
Who is this ‘Vishrant’ and why hasn’t he been banned already?
And phew, what a relief to find people who have enjoyed the film as much as I have…..or perhaps, given that you had to justify a 280 rs ticket!!
@vishrant, why don’t you accept that some people do like the film instead of vehemently trashing the movie on all hulla-related posts on pfc…mat karo yaar, someone else is as entitled to their opinion as you are, …live and let live
It was a boring movie, really .. did not work for me at all … as for audience reaction, the hall was more than half empty to start with and a few more walked off some time into the second half.
Thanks a ton, Kenny, for this. Appreciate the trouble you took to write this that late. Did you see the 10-55 show? Because that was the show they canceled on Saturday night, much to my horror? How many people were there?
Abhay and Raj, thanks for your support. There are these people who want to stay anonymous (and keep changing their name, one of which could easily be Atul Taishete or one of his institute buddies) and keep spewing venom, let’s just swat these flies. Just the fact that they are not satisfied with airing their view once tells you what the motivation is.
@Vishrant –
ek minute main faisla?
karate, kung fu atta hai to itni bhi der kyon?
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haven’t seen Hulla
but your bad taste is evident
by the above comment
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but then maybe
you’re just seeking attention
or affection
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or a life?
I am writing this without having seen Hulla yet but only reading the comments and the posts here. Adding my comment is in a way a istake but I am not able to hold back.
It looks like if there is a post on why somebody did not like / love Hulla there has to a barrage of replies condemning the same.
Why? So what if one likes it. So what if another doesn’t? I guess its becoming more like a contest here – who gets the upper hand and the final say – the pros or the cons.
For while watching a film these both will always exist and have to. Else what would we end up wth?
In all this the objectivity in analyzing a film gets lost I feel. I jsut feel I have added to the spam here but as I said before I gave in to the temptation.
Navdeep…LOL
Fantastic comment…humourous but w/o any malice..loved it!!
@Kenny, I appreciate you writing this piece, and intend on watching Hulla whenever possible. However, your last paragraph is in really bad taste- authors need not and should not stoop to the same level as some weirdo commenters, and that too in the post itself- make your point, but do apply restraint.
Jaideep, I watched the 6 PM show. I think there were about 30 people. I don’t know about the story behind the marketing of the film, but there definitely would have been a wider audience for it. Mumbai Meri Jaan and A Wednesday, I’m happy to say, both ran 3 weeks in Movietime Malad. I think more people would’ve seen Hulla here, ’cause the ticket rates are 60 and 90.
All said and done, you’ve made a fantastic first film, which can only be a pipe dream for many armchair critics. Congratulations.
@Navdeep and Anand
Classy comment from Navdeep – I agree totally with Anand
@Arthi
You’re absolutely right. People have every right to dislike a film. What gets my goat is the armchair expert gyan baato attitude
@Jahan
You’re even more absolutely right. My last paragraph is indeed in bad taste and I should’ve applied restraint. In real life, I’m as diplomatic as possible, actually. Maybe it was the late night hour and the fact that I’d eaten more during last night’s dinner than I’ve ever eaten in any single meal in my life – buffet at Mirchi, Juhu. The food was practically overflowing – must’ve caused the verbal diarhoea as well.
@ Kenny. True. But ranting about the film’s +ves and dumbing down others’ views also does no good at all. And thats whats happening here. Not only in this post but also others. Hence said so…
arthi a film can have both positives and negatives.. the reason you probably see two posts saying give the film a chance is because the popular media has all but finished the movie.. all talked about the negatives, so in a small way one has to stand up for the positives saying i do not agree with what the critics have to say..
What you say is fine, Anurag. But here in all these posts it seems like just ranting @ the film. That seems a real put-off.
If it was more,er,objective in putting across the +ves, well, many would actually want to go and see the film caring a damn about the reviews in the media.
Thats all I want to say.
@Kenny
Quote: “Why the blazes are people giving 2/2.5 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was an 8/10 movie.”
Well, what if I were to write – “why the blazes is anyone giving 8/10 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was a 2/10 movie”
You liked it. Fine. Say that. By insisting that others should have liked it more, you are doing nothing more than “armchair gyaan baatoing” yourself!
Hey! Censorship sucks(remember Paanch?) so let the vishrant guy stay alive on PfC.
Is that sarcasm, in his comments? Sarcasm or no sarcasm leave him alone, he is funny!
woh tabse is line main hain jab shayad tum paida bhi nahien hue the
Yes saar, it closely follows the world’s oldest profession!
Why don’t people comment under their real names?
@ kic
“Well, what if I were to write – “why the blazes is anyone giving 8/10 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was a 2/10 movie””
You’re absolutely correct about this
I do agree with Mr. Kashyap (if I understand him correctly). Whatever the critics’ verdict, the box office or public opinion, smaller, non-mainstream films NEED to be supported – especially when all odds seem to be against them.
Look, Bollywood is supposed to be big nowadays in Germany, but truth is it’s mainly the Yashraj-type of Bollywood (and that mainly on DVD). Everything else has huge difficulties or is simply not there. So, while I do enjoy the so-called masala films, they have their market anyway. There’s not much of a point in recommending them.
Another example: A few years ago, I published regularly on the work of Hong Kong/New York indie filmmaker Evans Chan. I was asked why I waste so much space for him (while not even having seen one of his films…). My answer was the same as above. People like Johnnie To, Tsui Hark or Wong Kar-wai get enough attention anyway. Of course, this is not a reason for not including them, but there’s no need to feature them in a big way either (if they’re not really outstanding).
I’m not totally sure if my argument is a sound one. I do hope so. In any case, do give HULLA a chance:-)