Friday Releases – 11th May’12
Next in my series, where I express my opinion / expectation
on the Friday releases as a movie goer.
Another week another set of movies to go for – 2 new movies
releasing this week and 2 released last week.
Let’s begin with the analysis of last week’s releases.
Once again I was bang on, both in terms of the business and
content of the movies.
As I mentioned Fatso wasn’t a noteworthy successor to
“Mithya”; movie didn’t open well, word of mouth was also not too encouraging.
Coming to the second release Jannat 2
As predicted, movie opened well in mass centers,
affirmation to Emraan’s growing clout over mass centers.
Movie religiously followed Bhatt’s rule book:
- Music has to be good.
- Economics of the movie
should work.
- Controversy – more the
merrier.
- The latest addition, post
the success of “Murder 2” is – make a franchisee.
- Some dose of erotica,
with mandatory kissing and love making sequence.
“Jannat 2” started as “Informer” but post the success of
“Murder 2” has been rechristened. They have followed rest of the rule book to
the T. The only connection it had with “Jannat” was Emraan Hashmi, his
character’s death in climax and a shot of a ring falling on ground in climax,
signifying the broken relationship.
Emraan Hashmi can sleep walk through such roles, he starts
as a character with Delhi/haryanavi lingo, but it vanishes as movie progresses.
Randeep Hooda was the surprise package and towers above
everybody else in the movie, as a brooding, angry, drunkard cop on mission.
Esha Gupta resembles Angelina Jolie in certain scenes but
the resemblance ends there; she is another pretty face with strictly limited
acting skills.
Story has his share of flaws, it’s little hard to digest –
an educated doctor with a past marrying a street smart guy, with a jail record
which she is aware of, without getting to know about his background.
Music was a typical Emraan Hashmi/Bhatt catalogue, will be
in vogue till another album is out.
Direction of Kunal Deshmukh was okay, he should try for no
hold barred masala thriller next.
The biggest drawback of the movie was the liberal use of
Cuss words, it could have worked as a lingo used by characters, but an expletive
in almost every second scene was little too much.
As per the trade film opened well and became an earner due
to its limited budget, but started sliding down from Saturday itself; in total
had a bountiful weekend.
Happy Movie watching.
Gagan
Disclaimer - Please refer to the earlier post under the
heading of Introduction and Disclaimer.
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