It’s the 24th night and the world is partying. What did I do? I went to see Tees Maar Khan so that I could write a blog for you. Its 3 in the night and I am writing the review for you. Please do read it (if you have a life {unlike me}, then I do understand you would have a 1000 things to do in this festive season, so its ok.)
Now let’s talk about TMK. Hmmm and after even more hmmm, I would say that I was slightly disappointed with the movie. This is coming from me who is probably the most tolerant guy when it comes to comedy (I even ventured and saw Bombay to Goa {the one with all the stand up artists} in the cinema hall {yes it is one of my 3 mistakes of my life}). Movie was okay but with Farah Khan, I did expect a lot more. I do remember the comedy in OSO was really top notch.
In today’s time when there is a debate for what audience is the movie made, TMK’s 1st half exclusively caters to the lower stall or what we call the masses, lot of eestyle, loud costumes, totally random flow of sequence, sudden jump to songs and lots of pelvic and busty thrust. (Yeah! In this movie Farah has invented a new step busty thrust). This half is quite enjoyable and kind of set the tone for the 2nd half.
The 2nd half goes a bit slow. Just when you start to enjoy the life and meanness of the con man, suddenly the director decides to do “daku bana devta” (term inspired by KKKG’s ‘Poo bani parvati’). In all hindi con movies, the hero must have a heart of gold and must have a reason to do what he does. So in order to justify the hero, movie takes a slow turn. But to the credit of Farah Khan, she did not overdo it. Now let’s come to the climax.
The acting of Akshay Kumar and Khanna were really good. Akshay Khanna has never seemed so smooth in a comedy in spite of doing quite a lot of them. Akshay Kumar can do such roles in his sleep now. But he was not the actor who had to put in least effort. Katrina almost played the real self in the movie. She is a HOT bimbo trying to act in the movies. She shows up in the sets only to vanish for ‘make-up’. She delivers a dialogue or two and does a bit of over acting before breaking into a dance sequence.
Oh! If you are wondering why I did not write anything about the climax in the end of the above para, it is because I am yet to decide what, where and when was the climax. The movie ends quite abruptly. During the last half hour (can’t say the climax as I don’t know what was the climax), there was a robbery scene, followed by a court room scene, followed by a movie premier scene. Last scene was about the revenge that was actually built up in these 3 scenes but the revenge scene just ends before it starts. Irony is that it’s a Farah Khan movie and both the direction and editing of this movie is really sad. Movie ends with a song “people like happy ending”. Farah signs off the movie in her signature style of showing all the cast and crew of the movie in yet interesting way.
So the verdict? What? Are you really hoping that I am going to give stars and pronounce a verdict like a film critic?
I am not giving any verdict but I would just leave a food for thought that I firmly believe that the humour in movies which are not made as out and out comedy have better comedy than ones which are made as out and out comedy
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