Partner : I have sinned
Letter to Cinemahindra - God of movies who travels in an Indian Jeep.
Postmarked : July 20, 2007
From: Your tuch prani (Hinglish: very bad animal)
Dear God,
I ask you for forgiveness for I have sinned. My love for movies has been labelled by this world as crazy, psychotic, snobbish by other tuch pranis (Hinglish: extremely bad animals). But I walked on and on in this crazy dreamy land of movies constantly touching the Bollywood junction each Friday for even if I’ve had water of ghat ghat (Hinglish: canyon canyon), I can’t do without my weekly Bollywood bhaat (Hinglish: 501 Export Quality Andhra Rice consisting of 50% mexican rice and 50% dirt/shit collected off the east coast of USA with the label: From India with Love stamped in front)
For the past so many years my brains have been beaten to mashed potatoes 52 times a year with an occasional relief here and there… the here and there constitutes those Fridays when no Bollywood movies were released or Patel and Daruwalla stores had already supplied the pirated version a Friday earlier.
With so much experience and the front hand knowledge that David Dhawan’s “Partner” was a copy of Hitch… I dared to enter the Hansal Mehta defined word for Desi theaters in the US - “Desi Ghetto”… ready to strip, kneel down and have my head beaten up by another Bollywood copy flick.
And as expected it turned out to be a copy of Hitch.
As unexpectedly, I put my clothes back on, ten minutes into the movie, sat on the nearest seat that had the least amount of spring popping out, and glued myself to the screen.
And I sinned. I laughed, I cried out laughing, because what Hitch failed to deliver, Partner was spot on - the amazing comedy and the fantastic chemistry between Govinda and Salman Khan. Of course the screenplay was shoddy but the editing was razor sharp. If Hitch delivered so beautifully the sloppiness of Kevin James and how he still won his lady’s heart, Partner was simply in a rush all the time to jump on to the next joke, but if Hitch felt a film that was washed with a disinfectant and then deodorized, Partner just goes all out to make it a Mad Mad Mad Mad world.
I got carried away Oh dear God of Cinema… I was buckled up and sent on this roller coaster ride for the next two hours and inspite of it’s sloppiness in parts, portions of unreal gaudy sets, actors ending up looking into the camera while muttering their dialogues and flaws galore… I was hooked.
Oh God, forgive me for I have sinned. Blame it on Govinda who adds another new dimension to his comedy and in a way so rarely seen, lifts his costar Salman’s performance as well.
Oh God, forgive me for I have never enjoyed a copy so thoroughly before… Sorry Lord, forgive me… I did enjoy as much a copy that came exactly 20 years ago… It was called “Jalwa” a copy of Beverly Hills Cop… After “Jalwa”… sorry after watching ‘Jalwa’ about 20 times in three weeks trying to find why I had enjoyed it inspite of knowing that it was a frame to frame photo copy of Beverly Hills Cop, I had given up, walked to the nearest doctor’s clinic and had respectfully asked the doctor to take his biggest injection and shove it up my ass to bring me to my senses.
I feel I should do the same again, but have stopped because I’m in the USA and don’t have any medical insurance that would cover the 563 dollars the doctor would bill for the same action I had performed on myself 20 odd years ago.
Forgive me O Lord, for after coming out of the theater I realized I hardly remembered a few jokes in the movie even when I had spent the entire two hours laughing my guts out. And then I remembered it was a David Dhawan movie. The entertainment of this brand lasts until the show and rarely lingers on.
Forgive me O Lord for I may end up going again tomorrow to watch this movie again to decipher WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME, and why the hell did I enjoy a desi Hitch… my life has O Lord become such a bitch.
And that’s the only glitch…
Your param bhakt (Hinglish: front row devotee)
oz
p.s. with trembling hands and out of fear and I give this Partner a B minus…
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oz, i didn’t get this. so u liked the movie, had a great time, but still B- ?
oz, forgive me, if i have sinned, but i really did not understand if u enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to anyone.
Well i did watch the movie yesterday taking a lot of trouble, was even got caught by police while returning, witout papers of my bike. I didn’t really enjoyed the flick, it was irritating at many occasions. but i did laugh whenever Govinda was on screen. he is great.
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OOOOOOOZ,i am sinned i am fully agreed,i am going to watch this movie . Thanks for this wonderful and unique review.:x:x
Why is this a copy of Hitch and not Shagird with IS Johar and Joy Mukherjee. What if Hitch is a copy of Shagird? Or of the Shagird remake Shreeman Ashiq? Both came out before Hitch did. It’s not always about Hollywood all the time you know.
- Thalassa, because of scenes, screenplay, characters and exact frames. It’s not always about making assumptions just to shoot in a comment without having seen the original and the copy you know.
“what Hitch failed to deliver, Partner was spot on”
Wow, that’s one helluva compliment.
Oz bhai was it a straight lift of Hitch or, as usual with many David Dhawan films, was it a mix of Hitch+something (like Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan was Angoor mixed with Bad Boys)?
The reason I ask is because if its a mix, and its as funny and entertaining as you say it is, then I’m looking forward to watching it.
Please tell me if Hitch is not based on a premise similar to the one in Shagird. Just sayin’.
Damn you say anythin against SALMAN !!
20th July, 2007. My record of watchin a SALMAN starrer first day first show (FDFS) remains intact from the time of Tere Naam..
(But for Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, my daadi wasnt well then)
So comin to PARTNER,
PARTNER is a copy, direct lift, whteva u call it, of HITCH (Will Smith).
SALMAN & GOVINDA urf Bhajiya, as I fondly call him. Their chemistry rockz!
BUT
The film doesnt. Its one of those films which u like in Bits n Pieces. On/Off kind.
Its loud (too much of background score).
Its distractin coz SALMAN looks so so so so so Good tht u gonna miss a witty one liner if u look at him for more than 3 secs.
But, then again in Bits n Pieces bcoz SALMAN’s double chin is clearly visible.
The dialogues are witty, infact too witty (Sanjay Chhel, is the dialogue writer, kudos to him!)
GOVINDA is back! The Board Room sequence is hilarious! The Honeymoon sequence too!
SALMAN throws in some wittiest one-liners and I enjoyed tht.
Music- You’re my love & Soni de nakhre, Too good.
I went for SALMAN and I get my money
People, don’t you get the obvious sarcasm.
Conspiracy theorists still exist, don’t they? :d
Funny review - you Catholic by any chance Oz?;)
Don’t care much for Dhawan, Salman, nor Govinda - but went to see this with a bunch of friends who do. And I laughed so hard at things so stupid I felt like kicking myself afterwards. How can such a bad movie be so enjoyable?
Well,atleast you get to pan the movie.I had to praise the movie in my review even though i hated it because of the positive general reaction :-<
Prasanth, Smoker Joe, yep I liked the movie…
Shatrughan, Thanks
Tony, I liked Hitch, but having been in the underground Pickup community for more than two years in its early days - when it was still underground, I wished they could have shown more in Hitch… atleast the comic angle… not that Partner does it, but in spite of its mindless comedy, it had me laughing out while it lasted.
Thalassa well if you are “Just Sayin” then there is no point to add to this conversation. If I go about “just sayin” pulling in assumptions off my ass, then every love story movie is a copy of Shankuntala, each woman’s struggle in life script is a copy of Jhansi ki Rani and Terminator is a copy of Mahabharata… and if anyone is going “what the fuck???” - hey… I’m “just sayin”…
Sunny Lallany, Not sure what you mean… if you are saying I shouldn’t say anything against Salman then sorry I belted him out for the Chinkara case on Desi Train almost a year ago.
Thilak, either I’m still sleepy or your comment just went off the top of my head… what the hell is this new name Nostro…
PJ, I’m a Kamasuthrist. “How can such a bad movie be so enjoyable” - Eggjacktly
Vikram, why did you do that?
oz, tht wasnt for u
it was for them who think GOVINDA TOH SALMAN KO KHA GAYA
“Chalo ghar waapis chaltein hain” (Lets go back home) -
was what my writer friend told me who had shifted from B’lore to mumbai to get into bollywood. Sunday afternoon Nirmal lifestyles mall - mulund 180 bucks - front row seat - house is full ….
after 21/2 hours of Partner this is what she tells me - “i will go back to b’lore and wash clothes, you go back to delhi and become a rickshaw driver …hum logon ka yahaan koi future nahi hai
”
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Wats worse is that the audience is enjoying the jokes…
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She said - ” Come to think of it these guys are like what - veterans of the film industry (Salman/Govinda/David dhawan) and this is the crap they churn out !!!! “
kk // LOL!! just curious. on a scale of say 0 - 5, where would you rate this flick?
0 - hadh kar di aap ne
3 or somewhere around there - aankhen
5 - rajababu
Wb - I’m being extremly generous here
Aankhein = 3/5 (fultu time pass .. brainless but entertaining)
Raja babu = 4/5 (solid dramatic and toilet humor … but still entertaining)
Hadh kar di apney = -10 (Baaaaaaa)
Haseena man jayegi is the best of David dhawan IMHO… I can watch it anytime .. any number of times.
Another Classic is the non David dhawan DulheyRaja - we often quote dialogues from that film in our filmy discussions (besides andaz apna apna, Hera Pheri) Dulheyraja is non sense but still entertaining
KK, u were watching 11:40 show by any chance.
I agree with you, people were laughing even on the missile sequence, which was the most irrelevant (there were many such scenes those did not have anything to do with the actual story, but this one won hands down) and the most irritating (or it was salman-lara church scene) scene of the movie.
but there were certain funny moments in the movie like, when katrina call up govinda, when govinda shows his dance moves, “bas yahi apradh main har baar karta hun, admi hun admi se pyar karta hun”(choice of song was great undoubtedly), and how can i forget “sorry peter”.
I would rate this movie as 1.5 out of 5, entirely because of Govinda. David Dhawan deserves negative marks for his direction. Salman could manage a respectable zero. others I won’t even mention.
PS: Katrina is really great (m talking abt her beauty not acting).
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Did you guys just delete my comment? And I didn’t even say anything remotely offensive in it - it was a very civilized response. All right, I get it - carry on with your little clique here.