Monday, March 16, 2009

Jai Veeru - Masala Gone all wrong

In times when Hindi cinema is improving by leaps and bounds, here comes a movie, which makes me wonder what made writer Vekeana Dhillon to write it or director Puneet Sira to direct it and above all what made me to watch it?

This movie is a logic less, nonsensical affair with no flow in the story or direction. There have been logic less movies in the past (alluding to Govinda's movies) but they have had some good point or the other which would make it entertaining. This is a movie which makes you think that each scene was shot in a different month. Such is the poor connectivity.

Veeru, Kunal Khemu, is a small time crook who steals cars. Jai played by Fardeen Khan is a car mechanic, who by the way has a very upscale lifestyle by the means of a mere car mechanic. Jai and Veeru bump into one another in a party and click instantly and become best of friends and escalate to brotherhood in one night. They come up with an ingeneous plan of stealing cars together as they might form a lethal combination.
Veeru later introduces Jai to his boss Arbaaz Khan who is the bad guy in the movie. Arbaaz Khan runs a fake note distribution racket. In a turn of events differences arise between Jai and Veeru and the latter shoots the former in the head in an accident. The bullet hits Jai smack on the forehead, but voila Jai gets all better without even a scar on his forhead. Apparently the doctors fit in a metal plate due to which there is no scar. :) Yes its that kind of a movie.
Jai and Veeru meet again and this time they are on a same mission, that of exposing Arbaaz Khan and his racket. Will they be able to co-exist together? Find out for yourselves.

Bappa Lahiri's music is good in parts. Two songs stand out the most, Sufi and Tenu Leke. These songs have been shot well too and are quite watchable. The rest of them are plain ok to skippable. All the songs are unnecessarily injected into the screenplay and have absolutely no significance in the story.

Fardeen Khan has been reinventing himself to become the undisputed king of boredom and this film is no different. I wonder what Sajid Khan must have gone through to pull off such a fine performance from FK in Heyy babbyy. Kunal Khemu repeats his Dhol like performance and brings nothing new to the table. Dia Mirza and Arbaaz Khan are okay. Anjana Sukhani, I dont know why she was in the movie. She did not have even 1 relevant scene out of the 3 scenes which she had.

If you thought "I - Proud to be an Indian" was Puneet Sira's worst work then please watch this movie. This movie makes "I" look like a master piece.

Rating: 1/2* (Skip it ! The half star is for the 2 songs by Bappa Lahiri. You can watch them on youtube)

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