Friday 23 October 2015

Shaandaar ~ Vikas Bahl redefines the Heights of 'Chutzpah'

Release date -22'nd October 2015

One Word which describes the film - Absurd/ Senseless/ Weird/ Stupid/ Silly (One word is not enough to describe this film)


Worst Dialogue - 
Pankaj Kapoor- ' Tu samajhta kya hai apne aap ko?'
Shahid Kapoor - 'Kuch nahi Sir, tucch praani. Aam admi. Raju Hirani.'
Genre - Comedy/ Drama

Music - Amit Trivedi

Story- Vikas BahlChaitally Parmar

Direction -Vikas Bahl

Cast -Pankaj KapurShahid KapoorAlia BhattSanah Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor

Budget- 50 Crores

How times change in a year. If last year Vikas Bahl was the most popular Bollywood director, winning almost all awards for Queen, this year he will be the most criticized person for making a really weird and senseless film and then calling it Shaandaar!
After SRK's over the top promotions for RaOne, Shaandar must be the next film to promote itself on every reality show. In fact the chemistry between Shahid and Alia Bhatt during promotions was 100 times better than their chemistry in the film.
In an interview Alia said that, "What I really liked about the concept is that Vikas came to me with only five lines. He said that it's a love story of two insomniacs, there is a destination wedding, there are some four characters that seem completely crazy to me." 
Guess Vikas himself too didn't work anymore on the concept as the final story can also be narrated in 5 lines with lots of stupidity and sleep inducing moments. If only the characters had seen Shaandar themselves their insomnia could have been cured and the audience could have been saved from the torture.
Apart from a bad story line the film is full of stupid dialogues like
Alia - I can't believe...kabhi tumne kiyaa nahi hai....Hath mein kabhi fevicool nahi lagayaa hai..Aise..! 
I would really want to ask the makers of the film that who was the target audience for this film ?
It's a well known fact that when Karan Johar saw the film he was not very happy with the end results and wanted the director to edit it and also  re shoot some parts. The film has Karan's touch as there were castles, girls whose only aim in life was to dress up in shortest of dresses, pout and click selfies and last but not the least a 'Mehendi with Karan' sequence.
To create sensation among the audience a totally irrelevant to the story, Alia Bhatt in a bikini scene was added in the film which was the most discussed topic on social networks few weeks back.
Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt have blindly followed the director and have mouthed the really weird lines with supreme confidence. 
Pankaj Kapoor is a great actor but he has no scope to show his acting talents.
Sanjay Kapoor has tried to copy big brother Anil Kapoor both in terms of dressing style and dialogue delivery but guess it's his bad luck that success continues to elude him.
The two dance numbers Shaam shaandaar and Gulabo are good but we have seen them so many times in promos that even they failed to bring any life in the already lifeless story.
Because of the promotions too much hype was created and the film got an opening day collection of 13 Crores. But now with bad reviews and  negative word of mouth it will be a difficult task for the film to earn decent numbers over the weekend. 
In a line there is not much to enjoy in the film except Alia Bhatt's pretty face but after some time the weird story starts getting on your nerves.
Avoidable. If you are a big Alia Bhatt fan or under 10 then you can watch. 

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