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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

80. Sirf ek main. Aur sirf ek tu.

Some movies make your skin crawl. Some movies make you cry like no one was watching. Some movies put you to sleep faster than reading 'The Secret' would. Only some movies make you feel special. Very special.

From the makers of the saddest movies in Indian cinema comes another excruciatingly plebeian melodrama.

Ek Main aur Ekk Tu is one movie that made me feel special, simply owing to the fact that it gave me that one experience, the probability of occurrence of which, in the future, were as close to zero as that of Kim Jong II really dying.

It gave me an empty theater.

6.42 pm. The movie was to start at 6.45. By now, my hopes had metamorphosed into desperation. I was hopeful that some random drunk guy would think it better to collapse in the theater than pass out on the road ; some random old-age couple might have nothing better to do in life and might turn up ; and of course, my greatest bet - all desis who packed themselves like sardines to watch Ra.One, could clearly bring their posterior for this one. As it turns out, I was inhumanely let down by all these aforesaid people. At one point of time, I had my doubts if they would even screen the movie.

Ek Main.. and What Happened In Vegas have as much as the word Vegas in common. It would be illegal to even talk about the two in the same sentence. Faint memories of the movie still occupy some space inside my head, and in a feeble attempt at evacuation of the same, I write this review. There is no such thing as a new or fresh concept in the movie. Of course, the movie has an open ending, which has been spoken about at great lengths and has been pounded upon like an old rag on a washerman's stone(probably because we are trained to not expect such unusual things in KJo movies, which are a hiss and a byword in present times).

I haven't heard too many people referencing Taare Zameen Par for a mild similarity with this flick, but I was forced to compare given the high standards set by parents, so on and so forth. Kareena Kapoor refuses to come out of her 'Geet' character from Jab We Met. It's almost as if that's the only thing she has to write on her resume. "I was the happy-happy girl and I did it so well, and I am going to do it all over again. I will accept only those scripts where I am the happy-happy girl and I can do it so well, and I will do it all over again". My sympathies are with Imran Khan, who is as catatonic to acting as a Raj Koothrapalli to women, and makes Rahul Roy in Aashiqui look like the god of acting. Ram Kapoor adds nice rotundity, but that's that.

borrrriiiing.

11 comments:

  1. Phew. That was a long wait. Now if we can quickly roll out *the* post. Please?
    Aside, what did the habhi have to say about the movie? And the experience? :D

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    1. *That* post is *so* not happening!
      Hubs pretty much scaled the same heights of desperation of waiting for people inside the theater.

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  2. u shd'e been forewarned by the title itself..ek mein (the movie) and ek tu..the audience :) tally aadichulla :D :D

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    1. Cha! Indha arivurai neenga first'te sollaliye, anne!! :D

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  3. hahaha awesome review. and true. the movie was pointless to say the least.

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  4. Nice review Bhargavi.. Saw the movie recently.. I liked it, bcas though it was cinematic, but it had some practical touch in all scenes. Didn't have much big expectations about their chemistry, but was astonished to see them glue well..

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    1. Agreed, the movie does surprise you with an unexpected ending. But I felt I didn't deserve the whole punishment of a movie just for the ending, heh! :)

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  5. watching a movie in an Empty theater places you high up the order. Bravo!

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  6. hahaha.. loved your description about Kareena the most :)
    the movie was okay, but not that good.

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