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Phata Poster Nikla Hero review: Shahid, Ileana can’t save this m
ovie !
By: I-Luv-Rashi Date: September 20, 2013, 2:15 am
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Phata Poster Nikla Hero review: Shahid, Ileana can’t save this
movie
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The most fun moment in Phata Poster Nikla Hero is the one in
which Salman Khan makes a cameo appearance. It lasts for just
about two minute, which means for hours, you just sit there
wondering what on earth you’re watching. And then comes the
film’s climax, which will confuse the hell out of everyone who
saw director Rajkumar Santoshi’s last film, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab
Kahani because you think you’ve bought a ticket to see the
Shahid Kapoor-Ileana D’Cruz starrer Phata Poster, but what’s
playing on screen seems to be from Ajab Prem. If Phata Poster is
meant to be a comedy, it isn’t funny.
If it is an action film, then it’s so last decade. What it
definitely is, is a disappointment. Phata Poster is about an
aspiring actor, Vishwas Rao (Shahid Kapoor) who wants to be a
famous hero one day. However, his mother (a wonderful Padmini
Kolhapure) is an honest, auto-rickshaw driver who wants her son
to be a good cop.
This mother-son relationship is actually the anchor of the film
and at several points strains of ‘Tujhe sab hai pata, meri maa’
(from Taare Zaamein Par) float in the background. Thanks to a
serendipitous turn of events, the Mumbai police as well as goons
start believing that Vishwas is in fact a police inspector. Next
thing you know, this fake cop and his mum are caught in the
crossfire between the police and the Gundappa gang (baddies,
obviously).
Shahid Kapoor owns whatever there is to own in this film. His
face is like all the emoticons that you have ever seen, rolled
into one. This could have been a bad thing, but when Kapoor
pulls all these expressions, he manages to make it work.
He is delightful in dance numbers like Khali Pili and Dhating
Naach. However, there is only so much that he can with a
half-baked character and a messy plot. Technically speaking,
Vishwas Rao isn’t Chulbul Pandey (Dabangg) or Bajirao Singham
(Singham). Neither is he anything like Akshay Kumar’s Bahattar
Singh (Khiladi 786). And yet, all these men are so generic that
you can’t help comparing them.
Vishwas, like all his illustrious onscreen predecessors, beats
up a mini army of beefed-up men without a stain of sweat on his
khaki uniform. He comes up with one-liners as though he as a
copywriter of an advertising agency on hire.
Unfortunately, Vishwas isn’t half as endearing as Chulbul Pandey
or even remotely as cocky as Bahattar Singh. Thanks to the
script, he spends most of his screen time trying too hard to be
funny. Vishwas’s love interest is Kajal, a social worker who’s
sole aim in life is to register FIRs against wrongdoers.
Played by Ileana D’Cruz whom we last saw in Barfi!, she’s known
as “Complaint Kajal” by the police (yes, that’s what passes as
humour in Phata Poster). Despite her busy schedule of saving
every damsel in distress and pestering policemen, Kajal manages
to have perfectly coiffed hair and afford a wardrobe that could
make a starlet very jealous.
D’Cruz looks stunning. With her Bambi eyes and an impossible
waistline, she is beautiful. Unfortunately, that’s not going to
make audiences laugh, which is what a comedy needs to do. D’Cruz
can handle the emotional scenes, which are scarce in the film,
but she is almost awkward in the high-octane comic scenes.
Maybe that’s why the romance between Kapoor and D’Cruz’s
characters is barely explored and is done away with three
well-choreographed songs. While the first half of the film is at
least filled with dialogues aimed at making audiences laugh out
loud, it seems Santoshi, who wrote the film, forgot that he was
writing a comedy when he got to the second half.
There are barely any scenes in it that make you chuckle. To make
things worse, the chaotic climax is so similar to Ajab Prem Ki
Ghazab Kahani that you sit through it fairly certain that in the
middle of all the running around and everyone beating everyone
else up, you’ll catch a glimpse of Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina
Kaif.
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