Having heard over the past two years that this film was "on" and then "off" and then "on" and then "off" and then finally "on" again, it made me feel like that someone was switching the lights on and off countless times. Then I heard that SRK and Farah Khan had fallen out with each other and that Akshay Kumar was in along with Katrina Keif.
Written by Farah Khan's husband, Shirish Kunder, the theme of the movie is based on an old Peter Sellers movie, "After the Fox." A thief gets his chance to plan to rob a train and he does this by hiring a actor and a movie shoot in a village nearby.
Starring Akshay Kumar, Katrina Keif, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna and Arya Babbar, the movie is directed by Farah Khan, written and Produced by Shrish Kunder and Ronnie Screwala. Vishal Shekhar provide the music score.
Farah Khan has had a previous "flop" on her hands - "Janemaan," though it was not directed by her but by Shirish Kunder. That movie did not star Shah Rukh Khan either but the other two, "Mein Hoon Na" and "Om Shanti Om" did and proved to be successful for her, though the latter did have some problems.
Katrina Keif, though has lost a lot of weight and ensured that her style of dancing could be compared that of Malaika Arora Khan in "Sheila Ki Jawani" compared to "Munni Badnaam Hui." Serious roles, such as the one in "New York," suit her better then the one she plays in this one.
Akshay Kumar, perhaps needs to consider doing serious roles than this. Certain types of comic roles do suit him and he does execute them very well. But unfortunately, this cannot be said here.
The music! Well the only thing that can be said is that at least one song - "Sheila Ki Jawani" is a memorable number, though it has come under a lot of criticism since the release of the movie. One other member of the industry that Farah Khan had always had but didn't this time was the music director, Anu Malik.
The plot fails to lift off, the comic lines and the dialogues could have been written well and its with this that I conclude that this was a movie that was riddled with disaster from the moment it was announced.
Written by Farah Khan's husband, Shirish Kunder, the theme of the movie is based on an old Peter Sellers movie, "After the Fox." A thief gets his chance to plan to rob a train and he does this by hiring a actor and a movie shoot in a village nearby.
Starring Akshay Kumar, Katrina Keif, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna and Arya Babbar, the movie is directed by Farah Khan, written and Produced by Shrish Kunder and Ronnie Screwala. Vishal Shekhar provide the music score.
Farah Khan has had a previous "flop" on her hands - "Janemaan," though it was not directed by her but by Shirish Kunder. That movie did not star Shah Rukh Khan either but the other two, "Mein Hoon Na" and "Om Shanti Om" did and proved to be successful for her, though the latter did have some problems.
Katrina Keif, though has lost a lot of weight and ensured that her style of dancing could be compared that of Malaika Arora Khan in "Sheila Ki Jawani" compared to "Munni Badnaam Hui." Serious roles, such as the one in "New York," suit her better then the one she plays in this one.
Akshay Kumar, perhaps needs to consider doing serious roles than this. Certain types of comic roles do suit him and he does execute them very well. But unfortunately, this cannot be said here.
The music! Well the only thing that can be said is that at least one song - "Sheila Ki Jawani" is a memorable number, though it has come under a lot of criticism since the release of the movie. One other member of the industry that Farah Khan had always had but didn't this time was the music director, Anu Malik.
The plot fails to lift off, the comic lines and the dialogues could have been written well and its with this that I conclude that this was a movie that was riddled with disaster from the moment it was announced.