Understanding that Happy New Year movie grossed
around 1.75 billion rupees in its first weekend worldwide, the second highest
opening for a Bollywood cinemas which perked up my interest. After all, I
wondered, what would it take for a film to become one of the highest grossing
Bollywood films of all times, that too directed by the great useless director
Farah Khan!
With enormous curiosity and an absolutely open mind (I didn't take risk of spending dollars in theater in Australia), I downloaded this movie, armed
with a bucket of popcorn and Pepsi.
The first introduction sequence reminded me of typical
Farah Khan and family co talent and senseless south Indian films (Kannada &
Telugu films) which are omnipresent on movie channels these days.
The mindless dialogues and a desperate attempt to comedy
already began to irritate my thoughtful taste. I concluded long before the
film ended, that Happy New Year is stupid, idiotic and senseless
film. I couldn't believe that actors like Shahrukh Khan, Boman Irani will
act like a crap and irritates with their senseless acting and comedy. And yes, important character in this movie that is sri sri sri Abhishek Bachchan, we all had a doubt but at last he proved that he is
one brainless & untalented surviving only on the name of Amitab Bachchan and Aishwarya
Rai. Also I am surprised to see the amount of money which Red Chillies Entertainment Productions had made by putting out a product that is way lower
than substandard.
But, what does this say about the audience?
In just few minutes I made my
conclusion and realized that I was trying to put the wrong lid on the
bottle. The film was just perfect in its place. I was the wrong audience
for it. The film is for Shahrukh Khan and Farah Khan fans; they want to see him doing
stupid comedies, taking revenge on villain, beat up the bad men, romance the
heroine, sounding his vibrant voice unnecessarily and have emotional encounters with other
character actors.
According to me Happy New Year is Shahrukh Khan and Shahrukh Khan is Happy New Year.
There is no room for a screenplay
writer, a story writer or a dialogue writer in the entire project. No one would
care about whether Shahrukh’s dialogue made sense, as long as it was said in a
characteristic Shahrukh type of way. The film plays out like a spoof from the
get go, a gigantic lark where nothing is taken seriously. No one would care
about the twists and turns the story would take (there is no story line, to
begin with!) as long as Shahrukh was in it. And, no one would care about the
authenticity of the plot because Shahrukh was the only reality!
Of course, not to forget the ever important
presence of item girl “Deepika Padukone”.
She don’t look like heroine, she was like full time item dancer in this film,
so that Shahrukh can take a break from his fights and revenge plan to
dance/romance with her.
Happy New Year is a tight slap across the faces
of those Bollywood film makers who claimed that Indian audiences are
mature enough to accept and adore intelligent movies with a well-thought out story line and decent
dialogues. Also I am stunned, how Sir. Amitabh allowed these idiots to enter “Kaun Banega Crorepati” to promote their
film. Even in that show, they were acting and performing like an immature
people. Being a super star of Indian Cinemas, Shahrukh should have been thought
twice before taking up this project. He has done such a great acting with a
great story line in the movies like Chak
de India, Swades, Baazigar but here all his achievements, creative ideas
has been wiped out and shows how useless actor he is. I respect Boman Irani and his enormous acting talent,
but here he failed to impress audience. Even he shouldn't have accepted this
project.
Recently I saw some movies like Filmistaan, PK, Baby and few Tamil
movies which are so adorable and had something special and new in it. These movies are so intelligent, entertaining and directors were success to reach the audience expectations. Seriously, Farah Khan and her brother Sajid Khan should stop doing crap movies and start
working as assistant directors under film personalities like Farhan Akhtar,
Rajkumar Hirani and few new Tamil Directors who are directing such an excellent
movies these days. From last 1 year, I have seen more than 20 Tamil movies and
become a big fan of that industry. 90% of movies are excellent, new directors,
actors and story writers are encouraged to prove their talent. Only drawback with
Tamil cinemas is looks and personality, in which they are not able to compete with
Bollywood but in talent and making, they are better than Bollywood.
So finally this Happy New Year film is a clear
indication of what the audiences want. I feel I literally wasted my valuable 2
and half-hours time on “HNY”. In an era where audiences rule and filmmakers
want to give them what they want, most of the money in the industry will surely
go into making such films in the future.
I might be a prude, bordering on being
a snob. Well, then that is who I am.
Here’s a call for attention to our minority community of
avid film watchers – we need intelligent and entertaining films!
