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Cast: Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sophie Chowdhary, Pitobash Tripathi, Sonali Bendre, Tiku Talsania
Director: Milan Luthria
Characters in Hindi movies tend to be more nave than the audience that's watching them on screen. The audience will guess early on that the most earnest cop in the unit is the traitor who's been leaking information to the bad guy. Or that the person who talks about living life to the fullest will be diagnosed with a fatal condition. Or that two best friends who swear never to let anything come between them will find their relationship tested. The characters on screen are always the last to know; they invariably figure out these things well after the audience does. It's an accepted fact in storytelling.
Yet the three protagonists in Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara aren't just nave, they're plain stupid.
This disappointing sequel to 2010's Ajay Devgan-Emran Hashmi starrer is constructed around the premise of a love triangle…the laziest love triangle you could possibly imagine. Shoaib (Akshay Kumar) is a mob boss. Aslam (Imran Khan) is his loyal protg. Both men develop feelings for struggling actress Jasmine (Sonakshi Sinha), who is close to Shoaib and Aslam. But Jasmin doesn't know that Shoaib is a don, or that Aslam works for him, or even that Shoaib has designs on her. Shoaib and Aslam, meanwhile, are unaware that they're both in love with the same girl. That's way too many clueless people in one film!
The earlier installment, also directed by Milan Luthria, was nicely evocative of 70s nostalgia helped no doubt by Ajay Devgan's insouciant take on a dreaded gangster. Akshay Kumar, on the other hand, replaces Devgan's sexy nonchalance with in-your-face flamboyance. Dark glasses perched permanently on his nose, puffing away on a cigarette, Akshay swaggers into the frame as Shoaib, offering the promise of a deliciously unapologetic anti-hero.
It doesn't help that writer Rajat Arora, as if to compensate for the flimsy plot, goes into overkill mode with wise-ass dialogues. Unlike the earlier film, which paid homage to the Salim-Javed era of memorable one-liners, this sequel is a full-fledged assault of rat-a-tat punch lines. When asked by a flunkie why he's recruited two young kids to join his gang, Shoaib responds: "Doodh mein nimboo jisne daala, paneer uski". On the changing face of the city, he says: "Yeh bambai, Kumkum se Kimi Katkar mein badal gayi hai", and on love he delivers this gem: "Pyaar aaj kal naukrani jaise ban gaya hai. Aata hai, bell bajata hai, kaam karke chala jaata hai."
If the love triangle isn't particularly compelling, it's because it's hard to get to the real emotions of the characters, buried as they are beneath all that cockiness. Imran Khan as Aslam, ostensibly the hero of this film, appears ill at ease rolling those corny lines off his tongue, and resembling a rich urban kid slumming it out as a tapori at a dress-up party. Sonakshi Sinha's Jasmine has got to be the most pea-brained woman you've ever met. She happily lets Shoaib rig awards for her, and thinks it's cute when he turns up on her set and halts shooting. She hangs out with him at his home, takes lifts with him in his car, but claims to be outraged when he says he has feelings for her. Fresh off her terrific performance inLootera, Sonakshi constructs a singularly contemptible character in Jasmine. Akshay Kumar, for all those sinister threats, ultimately turns Shoaib into a laughable clich. He goes on and on about being a villain, but we never see him get truly down and dirty.
The film does have a few strong bits, including an inspired cameo by Sonali Bendre, and a clever scene in which Shoaib walks into a police station intending to surrender himself. But these are small mercies in a major misfire as this. Too long at over 150 minutes, and way too predictable to ever surprise you, Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara is the equivalent of getting a root canal.
I'm going with one-and-a-half out of five. Call me cynical, call me a spoilt-sport, but don't call me if they decide to makeOnce Upon A Time in Mumbai 3!
😆Originally posted by: BeShArAm
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Agree on the Imran resembles a rich urban kid slumming it out as a tapori at a dress up party.
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Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Imran Khan, Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai, Kangna Ranaut, Randeep Hooda
Director: Milan Luthria
Characters in Hindi movies tend to be more nave than the audience that's watching them on screen. The audience will guess early on that the most earnest cop in the unit is the traitor who's been leaking information to the bad guy. Or that the person who talks about living life to the fullest will be diagnosed with a fatal condition. Or that two best friends who swear never to let anything come between them will find their relationship tested. The characters on screen are always the last to know; they invariably figure out these things well after the audience does. It's an accepted fact in storytelling.
Yet the three protagonists in 'Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara' aren't just nave, they're plain stupid.
This disappointing sequel to 2010's Ajay Devgan-Emran Hashmi starrer is constructed around the premise of a love triangle...the laziest love triangle you could possibly imagine. Shoaib (Akshay Kumar) is a mob boss. Aslam (Imran Khan) is his loyal protg. Both men develop feelings for struggling actress Jasmine (Sonakshi Sinha), who is close to Shoaib and Aslam. But Jasmin doesn't know that Shoaib is a don, or that Aslam works for him, or even that Shoaib has designs on her. Shoaib and Aslam, meanwhile, are unaware that they're both in love with the same girl. That's way too many clueless people in one film!
The earlier installment, also directed by Milan Luthria, was nicely evocative of 70s nostalgia helped no doubt by Ajay Devgan's insouciant take on a dreaded gangster. Akshay Kumar, on the other hand, replaces Devgan's sexy nonchalance with in-your-face flamboyance. Dark glasses perched permanently on his nose, puffing away on a cigarette, Akshay swaggers into the frame as Shoaib, offering the promise of a deliciously unapologetic anti-hero.
It doesn't help that writer Rajat Arora, as if to compensate for the flimsy plot, goes into overkill mode with wise-ass dialogues. Unlike the earlier film, which paid homage to the Salim-Javed era of memorable one-liners, this sequel is a full-fledged assault of rat-a-tat punch lines. When asked by a flunkie why he's recruited two young kids to join his gang, Shoaib responds: "Doodh mein nimboo jisne daala, paneer uski". On the changing face of the city, he says: "Yeh bambai, Kumkum se Kimi Katkar mein badal gayi hai", and on love he delivers this gem: "Pyaar aaj kal naukrani jaise ban gaya hai. Aata hai, bell bajata hai, kaam karke chala jaata hai."
If the love triangle isn't particularly compelling, it's because it's hard to get to the real emotions of the characters, buried as they are beneath all that cockiness.Imran Khan as Aslam, ostensibly the hero of this film, appears ill at ease rolling those corny lines off his tongue, and resembling a rich urban kid slumming it out as a tapori at a dress-up party. Sonakshi Sinha's Jasmine has got to be the most pea-brained woman you've ever met. She happily lets Shoaib rig awards for her, and thinks it's cute when he turns up on her set and halts shooting. She hangs out with him at his home, takes lifts with him in his car, but claims to be outraged when he says he has feelings for her. Fresh off her terrific performance in Lootera, Sonakshi constructs a singularly contemptible character in Jasmine. Akshay Kumar, for all those sinister threats, ultimately turns Shoaib into a laughable clich. He goes on and on about being a villain, but we never see him get truly down and dirty.
The film does have a few strong bits, including an inspired cameo by Sonali Bendre, and a clever scene in which Shoaib walks into a police station intending to surrender himself. But these are small mercies in a major misfire as this. Too long at over 150 minutes, and way too predictable to ever surprise you, Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara is the equivalent of getting a root canal.
I'm going with one-and-a-half out of five. Call me cynical, call me a spoilt-sport, but don't call me if they decide to make Once Upon A Time in Mumbai 3!
Rating: 1.5 / 5
The sequel to the awkwardly spelt but rather enjoyable Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai was initially called Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Again, before the "Again" was replaced with "Dobaara". A closer look at the film's poster will reveal that a "y" has been added to the "a" lately, and the name currently stands at Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara.
You could brandish a dictionary in revolt, or hold that Wren & Martin close to your chest and weep, but the idiotic title makes complete sense once you've watched the film. If anything, it reflects the mindset of its makers perfectly. The sequel's a confused, botched-up attempt at reworking the formula of the first film, one that hurtles from point A to B without any sort of focus. The title is its least unintelligent feature.
Which is a pity, because the predecessor had quite a few things going for it: Writer Rajat Aroraa's cracking dialogues were the perfect homage to Kader Khan and his ability to weave mass-friendly yet weighty lines in a fast-moving narrative, while Ajay Devgn's intense turn as Sultan (a take on Haji Mastan) was rather enjoyable. The film had an equally effective antagonist, bad boy Shoaib, played with impish charm by Emraan Hashmi. In that film, Shoaib, inspired by a young Dawood Ibrahim, was the clear bad guy – unrepentant and loathsome.
In the sequel, Akshay Kumar plays an older Shoaib – because you can totally imagine Hashmi growing up into Kumar... in 12 years – who likes to revel in the fact that he's the "villain". But for all practical purposes, Shoaib is the film's hero. Flamboyant, stylish 40-something Shoaib lives the good life in a Middle Eastern country (the film's shot in Oman), and director Milan Luthria leaves no stone unturned at glorifying the don's escapades in the reel world.
Just a month ago, Nikhil Advani made Dawood the enemy in D-Day, about RAW agents hunting the terrorist down in Karachi, bringing him to Indian soil and gunning him down. The Dawood of OUATIMD would smirk at the one in D-Day, light a cigarette and spout eloquent prose before blowing smoke in the air. If we hold the glorification of gangsters against Bollywood, Luthria would now be the biggest offender, turning India's much-loathed man into a sort of demigod on screen. The filmmaker – and producers Balaji – would surely win no points for having released a film that celebrates Dawood's persona on Independence Day.
The only other possible patriotic connect could be Kumar channelling his inner Manoj Kumar every time he says a dialogue, making the simplest of lines seem chuckle-worthy with his singsong delivery. The role seems to be right up Kumar's alley and he pulls off some really inane lines with practised ease, and given Aroraa's knack for dialoguebaazi, the film could have been the perfect platform for the actor to do his thing in a campy, entertaining way. Alas, it's not to be.
What we have is a forced sequel with a threadbare plot – as if Shoaib himself put a gun to Aroraa's head and coerced him into penning some lines that could qualify as a "screenplay" – about a gangster falling in love with an upcoming actress Jasmine (Sonakshi Sinha), who's also struck up a friendship with Aslam (Imran Khan), who happens to be one of Shoaib's henchmen.
Aslam's meant to be the hero in this case, but while the character is itself sketchily drawn, Khan struggles to bring a semblance of believability to the character. He's listless and at sea, with the furniture in Shoaib's lair making more of an impact than Khan. Sonakshi, after a fantastic performance in Lootera, is back to going through the motions. Her character is meant to be in love with Aslam and friends with Shoaib, but it's hard to tell what she feels for either character, as she behaves more or less the same with both.
It's not the actor's fault, however. It wouldn't be a surprise that no one working on the film knew which way she would swing eventually, or if there was even a film in the first place. Hopefully, they won't feel as adventurous again and dobara.
By Aniruddha Guha on August 16 2013 7.41am
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