Expectations! They seem to be directly proportional to the eventual
disappointment.
So it is with Bang
Bang!
There was so much going for this! And so little have they achieved
with it!
The hype was unbelievable. When the promos and songs first arrived on
YouTube, record numbers watched them in no time. Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif
The action
scenes - surprisingly and disappointingly - are not slick. They are not even convincing. They are not a patch on the action
scenes seen in Krrish 3 or Dhoom
3. And that is a
shame, because they had the towering presence of Hrithik Roshan going for
them, and yet managed to rake up dud sequences.
Predictably Katrina Kaif plays a
Canadian settled in India – how
many times will they justify her accent by making her an NRI ?
She lives with her Dadi in an unrealistic setting in the
north. So do Hrithik’s parents – in a large country house, all by
themselves, with no domestic help – in a place that is helpfully named Ghar. Danny plays the predictable
villain, and Javed Jaffrey,
It was the songs that got us going. And they are the saving grace of the
film. Them and Hrithik Roshan . The songs are tailor-made for him, as
he mesmerises you with effortless moves with his superbly toned
body. He has the
reverse-Madhuri Dixit effect on the audiences. When she used to dance, she easily
overshadowed the leading man; now Hrithik is doing the same to his leading
ladies. You simply cannot
take your eyes off him when he is…well, on a song! He is simply the most
well-rounded actor we have right now.
The producer and director are lucky to have had a hit with this
one. And it is barely a
hit, considering that at one stage, it was expected to cross 50 crores in the
first week itself and over-all 300 crores. It managed only 27.54 crores in the first week and is struggling to
reach 180 crores in India as
of now (source:
bollywoodhungama.com).
Watch it only for Hrithik!
Update (July 2020): Since this film, I have lost count of the number of foreign reaction-makers on YouTube that have gushed over Hrithik in the title track, Bang Bang. Arguably, Hrithik has single-handedly steered a largely indifferent western/foreign audience towards paying attention to what Bollywood/Indian cinema has to offer.
As far as I am concerned, he is the only star-kid that deserves his place in the limelight; the rest can take a walk!
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sources:
https://nishitak.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/hrithikroshan-3b.jpg
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