Hyped and the most awaited movie of the season, though it falls way below my expectations the movie was funny if I say it is in the sense when someone is tickling you unawares when you asked them to tell you a joke. If you’re laughing at some scene in this movie it is against your reason and will and sometimes quite an intellectual abuse.
The movie had everything: a great cast, a great story, great dialogues even with big international banners backing them up but then when the director mixed them all up all these ingredients it wasn’t something we all expected.
The movie lacked a consistent screenplay for starters. The narration was bland, and there were just so many goofy errors which do not add up in the consequence of events. We are given the chance to shout “Oh it’s a miracle”. The story-telling lacked substance; the goofiness overtook and almost completely defeated the much necessary serious undertones in the movie, where it lost much of its definition as an adventure, which is what we expect from the title.
The story is about the journey of a superstitious, stupid and rather naive vegetable cutter born and bought up in Chandni Chowk to China fooled into believing that he is destined to be a great fighter to avenge the people of a certain village which is being controlled by a brutal tyrant, who is so skilled that he could kill a man with the spin of a hat. He loses his uncle in an encounter with the enemy and finally avenges his own loss in the end.
You’d think Sidhu (Akshay Kumar), the man, would dramatically be transformed to this great warrior, seething with anger to avenge his dead uncle, who brought him up when he had no parents, but No!. The reeling scenes of his childhood portraying the love of his dear uncle and the parting, never end in equal vengeance in the climax, it always fizzles out into something funny and non sequitur. The character betrays his own emotions, for all I know the loss of his uncle was to be the defining moment of change or transformation but it so portrayed here that it’s almost similar to laughing in the funeral of someone you love. Akshay Kumar is the only thing in the movie which was brilliant; he’s the man who had it going on even though the director, Nikhil Advani successfully stripped his character from all possible genuine emotion. The performance of this movie owes it completely to man who winged it.
Deepika’s acting was tolerable and just enough to fit in, as in she was able to keep her twin characters different and consistent. Her martial art sequences were neither as long nor are as they are hyped to be. The family drama weaved into the primary story does not fulfill its purpose, its one of those simple add-ons you have to fill in the story so that it wouldn’t look totally empty, the effort of course had vague results.
So, finally if you want to be baffled, point at something and laugh even if you don’t know why, or just laugh out loud since you hadn’t done it for a long time, or if you wanna watch the
