Constant and repeated exposure to "intelligent" and world class cinema has certainly succeeded in making a significant majority of our audiences that much more demanding and far less tolerant of repeated gaffes that seem to inundate most if not all Hindi film releases.........
Queen and Haider; to name just two; were the films that have remained etched in my memory ever since I saw or rather viewed them in two different friendly neighbourhood multiplexes and more significantly these two sterling efforts also conspicuously underlined the fact that Indian film makers can certainly push the envelope and more in terms of technique; story telling; performances; script; screenplay; sensibilities; characterisation; cinematography and a lot more besides if they apply their heart and soul to the fine art of film making.......
Like always; there is also a flip side to this coin and Yashraj Productions Shaad Ali helmed so called romantic thriller "Kill Dil" which released worldwide on November 14; 2014 certainly sent the ascendant fortunes of the Hindi film industry plummeting and how.........
Dev (the character essayed by Ranveer Singh); is supposedly a paanchvi fail according to Guru Govinda (Bhaiyya Ji) but effortlessly slips in and out of both Hindi as well as the Queen's English with consummate ease and dexterity depending upon the scene and situation; maybe Shaad Ali has never ever heard and seen a paanchvi fail who struggled or then made his way there with the greatest of difficulty or then he had too much on his plate to flesh out Ranveer's character with due care and diligence.........
During the unfolding of the four and a half minute birthday ditty (Haapu budday to you) picturised on Parineeti; Ali Zafar; Ranveer Singh and innumerable friends and hangers on night transforms into early morning and that too on horseback; on screen wizardry or then has Shaad Ali been taking lessons from one P.C. Sorcar..........
Now let's move on to two more similar situations and glaring errors; Tutu (Ali Zafar) urgently summons Dev (Ranveer Singh) to come to his rescue and rescue him from a rather sticky predicament in 15 minutes or so and lo and behold Dev uncannily arrives on the hot spot and saves his buddy from imminent death; how????? was Dev clairvoyant to begin with or then did the almighty bestow him with "DIvya Drishti".........
In the climax scene of this stinker of a film; Tutu establishes contact with Parineeti Chopra and implores her to reach the hospital where he has taken a mortally injured Dev in a jiffy as her "divine" presence can help extricate his "chaddi buddy" from the jaws of impending and fast approaching death and lo and behold; a suitably chastened appears in the hospital by magic; a repeated case of divine wisdom and gyaan.........
The list of bloopers is never ending and I for one can fill up volumes with the same; suffice to say; Kill Dil is certainly the answer to every film buff's prayer of being entertained(??????) inadvertently/unintentionally and without any conscious desire to do so by the film maker.........
Ladies and gentlemen; I hereby give you Kill DIl a serious contender for the "Razzie" (worst film of the year Award) and a film that s surely not to be missed if you are a purveyor of the worst that the Hindi film industry has to offer...........
Queen and Haider; to name just two; were the films that have remained etched in my memory ever since I saw or rather viewed them in two different friendly neighbourhood multiplexes and more significantly these two sterling efforts also conspicuously underlined the fact that Indian film makers can certainly push the envelope and more in terms of technique; story telling; performances; script; screenplay; sensibilities; characterisation; cinematography and a lot more besides if they apply their heart and soul to the fine art of film making.......
Like always; there is also a flip side to this coin and Yashraj Productions Shaad Ali helmed so called romantic thriller "Kill Dil" which released worldwide on November 14; 2014 certainly sent the ascendant fortunes of the Hindi film industry plummeting and how.........
Dev (the character essayed by Ranveer Singh); is supposedly a paanchvi fail according to Guru Govinda (Bhaiyya Ji) but effortlessly slips in and out of both Hindi as well as the Queen's English with consummate ease and dexterity depending upon the scene and situation; maybe Shaad Ali has never ever heard and seen a paanchvi fail who struggled or then made his way there with the greatest of difficulty or then he had too much on his plate to flesh out Ranveer's character with due care and diligence.........
During the unfolding of the four and a half minute birthday ditty (Haapu budday to you) picturised on Parineeti; Ali Zafar; Ranveer Singh and innumerable friends and hangers on night transforms into early morning and that too on horseback; on screen wizardry or then has Shaad Ali been taking lessons from one P.C. Sorcar..........
Now let's move on to two more similar situations and glaring errors; Tutu (Ali Zafar) urgently summons Dev (Ranveer Singh) to come to his rescue and rescue him from a rather sticky predicament in 15 minutes or so and lo and behold Dev uncannily arrives on the hot spot and saves his buddy from imminent death; how????? was Dev clairvoyant to begin with or then did the almighty bestow him with "DIvya Drishti".........
In the climax scene of this stinker of a film; Tutu establishes contact with Parineeti Chopra and implores her to reach the hospital where he has taken a mortally injured Dev in a jiffy as her "divine" presence can help extricate his "chaddi buddy" from the jaws of impending and fast approaching death and lo and behold; a suitably chastened appears in the hospital by magic; a repeated case of divine wisdom and gyaan.........
The list of bloopers is never ending and I for one can fill up volumes with the same; suffice to say; Kill Dil is certainly the answer to every film buff's prayer of being entertained(??????) inadvertently/unintentionally and without any conscious desire to do so by the film maker.........
Ladies and gentlemen; I hereby give you Kill DIl a serious contender for the "Razzie" (worst film of the year Award) and a film that s surely not to be missed if you are a purveyor of the worst that the Hindi film industry has to offer...........
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