Bachna – Take A Hobby Along!!
Folks,
Caught a screening of Bachna, which began at 6:15 at Fallbrook, Southern Cal and ended at 9:05. Why am I giving you all these stats. Cause therein lies the problem. While an ok watch, it was just too long and too predictable. I looked at my watch 12 times after the first hour and when intermission came, I actually thought it was “the end.” Actually if it had ended there, it would have made a fine film. Luckily “intermission” came only as a word, not an actual interval, cause else we would have had to sit though 20 minutes more.
To truly enjoy this film, watch it in Fallbrook, cause there is a 24 hour fitness next door, some fine food, take along an Ipod, etc, cause you’ll need all of that.
Summary of the film was, boy toys with two, dumps them, now girl toys with boy dumps him, now boy seeks his own redemption, the first redemption is fine, the second one is forced (whereas it should be the other way around) and happens for no reason and then lo behold now the “independent” third girl, for no reason, has become “highly dependent.”
The “for no reason” is the romantic comedy way of what Sanjay Gupta resorts to in his thirllers, “mindless violence” when the scriptwriter cannot bring out any other logical justification.
There is a game going around asking which girl the guy gets? Since the movie is so predictable, the answer to that one is also very predictable and I won’t venture there. Acting wise, I thought so in Saawariya and I still think so, Ranbir is average (not bad, but not as amazing as he is made out to be), Bipasha is not. Forget the “hot and happening factor” the lady can act. She stole the thunder in DHOOM 2, she certainly does so in Bachna. Kunal is probably a Yash Raj loyalist, nothing else can explain why he would do the cameo that he does do (and nothing wrong in being a loyalist, that is just my observation).
The songs are catchy, and so is Minisha’s excessive make up. The locales are nice, although in all these the city of Amritsar is probably captured better than all of Australia and Italy. Given I spent last summer in Zug, in Switzerland, that country has been caught beautifully on camera, although it is Gastaad here. The guy who plays Ranbir’s buddy is actually pretty impressive. The pace is light, but when the lenght increases everything else seems too long.
It has a bit of masala to keep it moving, but director Siddharth Anand tries too hard to emulate a Salaam Namaste.
Sincerely,
Vivek “it’s great that multiplexes in India are also malls, otherwise Bachna se Bachna” Kumar
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
great !! atleast you had Faalbrook. For me I wtent to a building which had only a multiplex with a few restaurants. bass !! then I had my kid, who initially thought I was excited to see the film ( actually I was excited to see the song and so I was actually done after the “titles” !! ), so eventually he started enjoying the film !! ab kya karein ? family ko chhod ke bahar bhi to nahi jaa sakta !!
@kcp – Your kid is still better than what I was as a child, because I made my parents watch Tohfaa for the title song only. I slept through the rest of the movie, and they suffered – not for having me as their son, idiots – for the movie. :p
Brilliant article. Had me in stitches laughing! I think the intermission was only word-wise or everyone in the theater would have left… We knew the rest of the film’s story… Anyway, I have to say I enjoy Ranbir’s acting way more than I should. There is something fresh about him. But agreed, Bipasha, in all her usual hotness, is also an amazing actor. Thanks for the laughs.
That’s what makes movies and the reaction to them so interesting. Nobody is right and none wrong, and each audience member is entitled to experience their own joy and sorrow. A lot of the female species actually loved Ranbir in the movie and are making a beeline to see it a second time…and more power to them. On another note, SINGH MAY BE KING, BUT KUMAR’S ARE EMPORER’S WHAT WITH BOXER VIJENDER KUMAR AND WRESTLER SUSHIL KUMAR WINNING OLYMPIC MEDALS LAST NIGHT, MAKING VIVEK KUMAR VERY HAPPY!!!!
Funny again! As much as I enjoyed Ranbir… I don’t think I’ll go see the movie a second time… Didn’t like him THAT much! ;-)))
I quite enjoyed the movie. It’s nothing deep or impressive but wasn’t a bad time pass – a cute comedy that didn’t drag either.
thumbs up from me