It should be seen to be believed and also because it is not often that you get to see movies that defy logic, reasoning, common sense or stereotypical cinema for that matter. Now I am not saying whether thats a good thing or bad :)
For about an house into the movie, I was still confused about whether I liked this or not. A part of me was looking at the finer details (which I am not sure are either incidental or extremely shrewd!) and liking it. There was a pinch of this and a dash of that, all good stuff (spin offs from Don, Deewar, Kala Pathar etc etc.) The starting scene itself was brilliant according to me.. The whole tribute to noir cinema was not lost on me as well. But all that again was limited to about 45 mins into the movie and thats it..
I am guessing somewhere after the intial spark of brilliance the director thought to himself, Kareena rocked in the bikini, Saif looks uber cool and Akshay for the last couple of years has only delivered hits no matter what role he plays- So guess I dont need to think or do anything anymore. Let me not even bother about things like script, story, screenplay or simply common sense :p
The last one hour was unbearable to say the least. There was mush when you are really not in a position to digest it, there was Anil Kapoor with a shaven chest which is good enuf to make anyone puke and there was Saif reduced to a miserable side kick. Terrible terrible terrible..
Sigh.. if only someone had the sense to tell the director to chop the movie after an hour into it or just continue the momentum he had created in the first couple of scenes, it could have been a really sharp movie.. I guess this is what happens when you tend to mix your sensibilities of modern sharp cinema with masala movie cliches! What you end up with is 'Tashan' ! All spice, no substance..
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