Sunday, October 18, 2009

Blue

Blue is a perfect movie which has disguised its countless flaws & plot deficiencies with some very good technical post production. The movie talks about a treasure hunt throughout, but there is never a hunt, it’s like Bloated Dutt knows it all.

The movie’s first half is brainless & gets you brain dead till it reaches the half way mark. The makers have used up all their money to pay up the firangi (Pete Zuccarini) & to get Kylie Minogue to sing and dance on the embarrassing ‘Cheegy Weegy’ (that’s how Sonu Nigam sings it… lol ). In the midst of all this they forgot to get someone to give them a strong story/screenplay.

Now, after the National Geographic style opening credits, we have a super rich Arrogant Kumar who befriends Bloated Dutt for his own reasons, obvious from the start but revealed right at the end. Bloated Dutt is a working class fishmonger, who has a sea-facing furnished ‘bangla’, a naukri under ‘arrogant’ and Bikini Dutta for arm candy (all this at the producer’s expense of course).

The happy three live happily in the breathtaking filmed Bahamas, flaunting their lifestyle which might put Donald Trump to shame, because our awesome threesome do everything except work. But along with Bloateds dark memory about his father (who gives him a ‘kasam’ under water through his oxygen mask) he also has a good for nothing brother Useless Khan (who is solely there because the producers thought about cost cutting).

Now, Useless Khan under the adrenaline rush (because of K Kaif) has a brush with the Bangkok mafia screws up big time and is under debt of $50 million. Useless Khan does not know what to do and flees to Bahamas, one big useless that he is. The mafia follows Useless to Bahamas giving rise to some redundant bike chase & a gun battle at Bloateds bungalow which leads to his house being burnt to ashes and Bikini Dutta kidnapped.

All this finally leads to the much talked about treasure hunt under the ‘Blue’. Bloated has to revisit his dark memory, arrogant is only too happy & Useless is useless. Now the most awaited treasure hunt and the corner stone of the plot turns out a like a ‘thanda thanda (blue) pani’ makingschool treasure hunt competitions look more challenging. The trio has just found out the Mahabharata style ‘khazana’ after navigating through colorful corals, fishes and some harmless sharks who are as disinterested in them as you are. Bingo!

Finally, the mafia is killed the raaz’s are revealed, bloated is united with his bikini and Useless feels like he’s come out of the blue. The climax is plain juvenile and stupid.

Blue, only scores high points in the cinematography department. The look of this movie is quite distinguished. The scenes shot underwater and the night scenes where Akshay confronts Sanjay to look for the treasure has brilliant framework associated with it.

Its the festival of lights and colors, don’t just restrict yourself to ‘Blue’. As for this movie catch it on the ‘Blue’-ray disc.

Verdict: It leaves you feeling Blue!

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