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Originally posted by: blue-ice
This is such a big relief...and I had one more question...Did u also feel like this film belongs in the 70s or 80s...like some members felt after watching the trailer?😆Thanks for the honest review😛
Happy New Year Review
October 24th, 2014 by Mohar Basu
Rating: 2/5 Stars (Two stars)
Star Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood, Deepika Padukone, Jackie Shroff, Vivaan Shah
Director: Farah Khan
What's Good: The actors are all earnest and the opulent canvas sure works in retaining your attention.
What's Bad: It lacks Farah Khan's witty streak. The heist track just doesn't work and the film's second hour is plain unconvincing. Low on the needful IQ that could have made the robbery believable, the film's thrill tapestry was on the weaker side.
Loo break: Spend a good chunk of post interval in the loo.
Watch or Not?: Happy New Year is two distinct films rolled in one. While the first hour is breezy, fun and pretty watchable, the second hour is a convoluted mess with a heist angle that doesn't work, a romantic track that seems forced, the vivaciousness lacking from the camaraderie of the characters and the sappyness of a dukhbhari daastan of a backstory. It is a half baked film that uses all the regular formulaic heist tools and naturally offers nothing unseen or unexpected. The predictability of the climax was the most fatal blow for the film. It isn't unwatchable but horridly disappointing. Farah Khan has better mettle I believe and her funda of keeping it simple, garbed in floss doesn't work this time.
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Charlie (Shah Rukh Khan) is looking to avenge the humiliation of his father who was put in a wrong spot by Grover (Jackie Shroff). Following him and tracking him for 8 years led him to the momentous day when Grover will keep protected a handful of rare diamonds.
Charlie builds a team of people whom he calls Charlie's Angels to participate in World Dance Championship which will lead them to the diamonds they want to steal. Nandu Bhide (Abhishek Bachchan), Jags (Sonu Sood), Tammy (Boman Irani) and Rohan (Vivaan Shah) along with their dance teacher Mohini (Deepika Padukone) train for the championship.
How a bunch of losers manage to sneak out the diamonds from the world's safest locker is what the film entails. A series of events and a tight climax leads to the downfall of Grover that Charlie had plotted for 8 years.
Vivaan Shah, Deepika Padukone, Boman Irani, Shah Rukh Khan, Sonu Sood and Abhishek Bachchan in a still from movie Happy New Year'
Farah Khan keeps the story simple indeed. It's neatly written but the problem is she chooses a wrong theme to tell simply. I wish Farah had restricted the film to her forte, dance! But she tries too many things. There is a feeble backstory of a loser, who we are told is a Boston University Topper. Clearly daddy issues cost him a career and he is currently an unemployed loser. He gets a bunch of co-losers to assist him on an ambitious heist project to avenge the humiliation his father was put through. At one of the film's initial scenes, Jackie Shroff announces at a press conference, almost as an invitation to robbers all over the world about how his security system is foolproof and will be guarding a bunch of diamonds worth a fortune.
Charlie takes up the challenge and makes a team of people who in all likelihood will fail at robbing the bank next to your house. The first half of the film isn't brilliant either but atleast it is kept thick and consistent. There is a lot of dance and a lot stupidity because Farah couldn't let go off her genetic affinity towards churning out no-brainers. Being the older and the more intelligent one of the Humshakals siblings, Farah keeps falling back to dialogues of Shah Rukh's previous films. King Khan's tendency of self referencing is clearly used as a crucial clap trap here.
However, in the second half all the eerie things in the world begin happening. The dance team of amateurs take a Dubai trip by blackmailing in-the-closet Gay judges and hacking vote bank in their favor. Once they are in Dubai, the film forgets its entity as a revenge saga and becomes a patriotic film. Deepika even does a SRK's Sattar minute speech from Chak De India. All hunky dory, the second hour is low on everything that was the best thing about this film. There's no dance. They are just a bunch of buffoons who are stalking a few diamonds. Farah even draws inspiration from brother Sajid Khan and creates a Humshakals angle here.
The climax was utterly wasted in melodrama. The biggest problem with Happy New Year is its inconsistency. It isn't a revenge drama because the villain is never made to stand out. The theft is unintelligent. And what's left is a bunch of talented people getting themselves mocked. The film was a hotch potch and by the end of it, if you survive, you are lucky.
Shah Rukh Khan looks droolworthy. I am not a fan of the Superstar but the actor's caliber despite remaining unused in the films he takes up, he easily is one of the things in the film that keeps you latched. The role doesn't do justice to his caliber but the SRK swagger helps in an underwhelming film like this.
Deepika Padukone is earnest and doesn't have merely an arm candy role. Though her screen space isn't a lot, the actress has done a terrific job.
Abhishek Bachchan is effortless and hams well. But then again, despite a lot of screen presence his character is not well invested in the film.
Boman Irani brings in his wicked humor and is immensely endearing in his role. Though a lot of the antics, Farah made him do were weird, Irani pulled it all off smartly.
Sonu Sood goes almost unnoticed and wasted. I think he shouldn't accept such thankless roles where all he is required to do is flaunt his body.
Vivaan Shah wasn't as much a misfit as one would have thought. He is good and blends in smoothly with the rest of the cast.
Jackie Shroff goes wasted despite his menacing demeanor. Farah doesn't build his character into anything meaty and anyone could have easily filled in for him. Shroff doesn't get his usual quirk because the role barely allows him anything.
Farah Khan has created a confused film. Happy New Year is a misguided, misfired product that doesn't know where it wants to end up. The humor was lame and though the design calls for it, one expects better from the other half of Sajid Khan (for some strange reason). I am glad, atleast the film doesn't go vulgar and offensive, that would have been the final nail. Not attempting to sound preachy and righteous but it also warranties misdeeds in a very Karma bites back' tone. Had Farah stuck to one theme, Happy New Year could have been a much better film.
As far as the editing goes, a three hour long film is enough to convey the expertise of the editing department. On the brighter side, it could have been a tirade probably but we were saved because of them.
The forgettable music of this apparent dance film is another flaw with the film.
Happy New Year is a muddled mess which has its own warm moments but as a package fails to work. Three hours of Shah Rukh flaunting his abs and swagger gets too much to take minus a strong storyline. Farah Khan has redeemed Tees Maar Khan but Happy New Year is her most mediocre work. I am going with 2/5. It's a magnum opus which is pretty much hollow from within and remains an all frills, no thrills show.
... The feeling won't last too long, says Paloma Sharma.
Five minutes after you have exited the theatre, Happy New Year's most popular song Indiawale will still be echoing in your ears. It is almost addictive, what Farah Khan dishes out, because it make you feel so good -- and yet, you know you can't ignore the side effects.
Happy New Year is an extremely difficult film to pass judgement on.
You want to like it -- you honestly do -- because it is what we call in this country paisa vasool entertainment. But the film's uneven moral standard for its characters makes the rational human being in you guilty for enjoying the other parts of a grossly sexist movie, which has such glaring loopholes in the plot.
Happy New Year is a very well Indianised adaptation of several movies and the foundation that the slightly shaky plot stands on borrows heavily from films like After The Sunset, Ocean's 13 and Henry's Crime. While I'd like to dismiss these as coincidences, I don't think I can.
Chandermohan Manohar Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan), who goes by the oh, so cool nickname of Charlie, brings together a gang of apparent losers to form a team of winners who are going to steal diamonds worth Rs 300 crore from professional self-loathing Indian, Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff, because Gulshan Grover would have been too obvious), in order to avenge Charlie's father.
The antique diamonds, which once belonged to the Mughals, are locked in a safe so safe (see what I just did there) that no one but Grover's own son, Vicky (Abhishek Bachchan) can open it with his finger prints. The safe, called Shalimar, was co-designed by one of Charlie's recruits, Tammy (Boman Irani), and lies 150 feet below Grover's luxury hotel, Atlantis, in Dubai.
Shalimar is protected by a web of lasers that could fry your brains faster than a Yo Yo song and once opened, it closes automatically in five minutes. To disable the lasers and basically handle all things tech, Charlie ropes in Rohan (Vivaan Shah). If everything else is handled correctly, Vicky's finger print might be a way in. But there certainly isn't a way out.
But Charlie needs to figure out a way to get Vicky on board. Since that would be the only thing that he can't manage -- aside from speaking Korean, saving children and lecturing people on what a bazaru aurat is -- Charlie does the next best thing and finds Nandu Bhide: Dimaage mein keede (also played by Abhishek Bachchan).
I'm having such a Gunda dj vu.
Bhide, needless to say, is Vicky'slook alike. But that's all that they have in common. While Vicky is some twisted version of a classy playboy, Nandu is a drunk who grew up in a chawl and needs money to pay for his mother's operation.
Speaking of mothers, that's exactly the word that you don't want to use around Jack (Sonu Sood) because his shirt will fly off and he will beat you to a pulp. Both Nandu and Jack love their mothers, although they and their fellows spend most of the film insulting everyone else'smothers with slyly placed double entendre.
The diamonds will be brought to the hotel on the same day that the elimination round of the World Dance Championship is held and so the team decide that the only logical way to ever get close to the diamonds is to enter a dance competition and place their perfectly laid out plan in the hands of fate.
The trouble is that none of them can dance and after trying out a number of dance teachers, which leads to a hilarious sequence of events, Bhide introduces Charlie to Mohini (Deepika Padukone), a bar dancer with the best moves in town.
Although Mohini agrees to teach them to dance, she has no clue about their plan and unwittingly gets involved in the high risk diamond heist. As the competition progresses, emotions play spoil sport and cracks appear underneath the surface.
To further complicate things, Grover decides to bring in the diamonds only on the eve of the New Year, which coincides with the finale of the dance competition -- a competition that the team cannot even hope to reach.
Happy New Year belongs to the rest of the cast. While Shah Rukh Khan is busy playing Shah Rukh Khan (or is it Rahul? I cannot tell anymore), Deepika Padukone, Vivaan Shah, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani and Sonu Sood steal the show from under his nose.
Although Deepika doesn't turn out to be the remarkable dancer that she's supposed to be in the film, she definitely is a solid, bankable actor who manages to even make Rakhi Sawant cool.
Boman Irani is yet against cast in a role so stereotypically Parsi that it makes you want to introduce the writers to some real Parsi people before they attempt to have another character belonging to the community ever again. Yet, Irani executes the task flawlessly, retaining his immensely likeable screen presence.
Vivaan Shah acts as an excellent support system, managing to play a teenager without either being dumb or rebellious while Sood seriously pulls up his socks and displays some commendable comic timing.
Farah Khan could have obviously done better than this. But then again, she could've done worse. (Did somebody say Tees Maar Khan?)
What I appreciate most about Khan's directorial style is the self-depreciating humour that she employs. However, much work needs to be done on the storyline which goes off into so many offshoots that it is hard to keep track. Plot points don't always end up meeting. But hey, if it helps at all, the grand sets and blazing lights will blind you so bad that you won't have to worry your pretty little head about all that technical talk.
Happy New Year has some foot-tapping music, Nonsense ki Night being the best of them all, and more than its fair share of laughs. Exotic locations and funny subtitles only add to its merits. But the film is far too long. It was as if Khan thought that her audience only has three hours to live and tried to push in every single emotion available. The melodrama eventually starts making your head hurt.
The film relies more on the two-minute noodle brand of patriotism than it does on common sense in order to further the plot. Featuring some adorable cameos from Anurag Kashyap and Vishal Dadlani and (yes, you're reading this right) Sajid Khan. This could have been a much better film if only it had dared to move out of its comfort zone. Happy New Year is a film that's bound to make you feel good, but trust me, the feeling won't last.
... The feeling won't last too long, says Paloma Sharma.
Five minutes after you have exited the theatre, Happy New Year's most popular song Indiawale will still be echoing in your ears. It is almost addictive, what Farah Khan dishes out, because it make you feel so good -- and yet, you know you can't ignore the side effects.
Happy New Year is an extremely difficult film to pass judgement on.
You want to like it -- you honestly do -- because it is what we call in this country paisa vasool entertainment. But the film's uneven moral standard for its characters makes the rational human being in you guilty for enjoying the other parts of a grossly sexist movie, which has such glaring loopholes in the plot.
Happy New Year is a very well Indianised adaptation of several movies and the foundation that the slightly shaky plot stands on borrows heavily from films like After The Sunset, Ocean's 13 and Henry's Crime. While I'd like to dismiss these as coincidences, I don't think I can.
Chandermohan Manohar Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan), who goes by the oh, so cool nickname of Charlie, brings together a gang of apparent losers to form a team of winners who are going to steal diamonds worth Rs 300 crore from professional self-loathing Indian, Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff, because Gulshan Grover would have been too obvious), in order to avenge Charlie's father.
The antique diamonds, which once belonged to the Mughals, are locked in a safe so safe (see what I just did there) that no one but Grover's own son, Vicky (Abhishek Bachchan) can open it with his finger prints. The safe, called Shalimar, was co-designed by one of Charlie's recruits, Tammy (Boman Irani), and lies 150 feet below Grover's luxury hotel, Atlantis, in Dubai.
Shalimar is protected by a web of lasers that could fry your brains faster than a Yo Yo song and once opened, it closes automatically in five minutes. To disable the lasers and basically handle all things tech, Charlie ropes in Rohan (Vivaan Shah). If everything else is handled correctly, Vicky's finger print might be a way in. But there certainly isn't a way out.
But Charlie needs to figure out a way to get Vicky on board. Since that would be the only thing that he can't manage -- aside from speaking Korean, saving children and lecturing people on what a bazaru aurat is -- Charlie does the next best thing and finds Nandu Bhide: Dimaage mein keede (also played by Abhishek Bachchan).
I'm having such a Gunda dj vu.
Bhide, needless to say, is Vicky'slook alike. But that's all that they have in common. While Vicky is some twisted version of a classy playboy, Nandu is a drunk who grew up in a chawl and needs money to pay for his mother's operation.
Speaking of mothers, that's exactly the word that you don't want to use around Jack (Sonu Sood) because his shirt will fly off and he will beat you to a pulp. Both Nandu and Jack love their mothers, although they and their fellows spend most of the film insulting everyone else'smothers with slyly placed double entendre.
The diamonds will be brought to the hotel on the same day that the elimination round of the World Dance Championship is held and so the team decide that the only logical way to ever get close to the diamonds is to enter a dance competition and place their perfectly laid out plan in the hands of fate.
The trouble is that none of them can dance and after trying out a number of dance teachers, which leads to a hilarious sequence of events, Bhide introduces Charlie to Mohini (Deepika Padukone), a bar dancer with the best moves in town.
Although Mohini agrees to teach them to dance, she has no clue about their plan and unwittingly gets involved in the high risk diamond heist. As the competition progresses, emotions play spoil sport and cracks appear underneath the surface.
To further complicate things, Grover decides to bring in the diamonds only on the eve of the New Year, which coincides with the finale of the dance competition -- a competition that the team cannot even hope to reach.
Happy New Year belongs to the rest of the cast. While Shah Rukh Khan is busy playing Shah Rukh Khan (or is it Rahul? I cannot tell anymore), Deepika Padukone, Vivaan Shah, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani and Sonu Sood steal the show from under his nose.
Although Deepika doesn't turn out to be the remarkable dancer that she's supposed to be in the film, she definitely is a solid, bankable actor who manages to even make Rakhi Sawant cool.
Boman Irani is yet against cast in a role so stereotypically Parsi that it makes you want to introduce the writers to some real Parsi people before they attempt to have another character belonging to the community ever again. Yet, Irani executes the task flawlessly, retaining his immensely likeable screen presence.
Vivaan Shah acts as an excellent support system, managing to play a teenager without either being dumb or rebellious while Sood seriously pulls up his socks and displays some commendable comic timing.
Farah Khan could have obviously done better than this. But then again, she could've done worse. (Did somebody say Tees Maar Khan?)
What I appreciate most about Khan's directorial style is the self-depreciating humour that she employs. However, much work needs to be done on the storyline which goes off into so many offshoots that it is hard to keep track. Plot points don't always end up meeting. But hey, if it helps at all, the grand sets and blazing lights will blind you so bad that you won't have to worry your pretty little head about all that technical talk.
Happy New Year has some foot-tapping music, Nonsense ki Night being the best of them all, and more than its fair share of laughs. Exotic locations and funny subtitles only add to its merits. But the film is far too long. It was as if Khan thought that her audience only has three hours to live and tried to push in every single emotion available. The melodrama eventually starts making your head hurt.
The film relies more on the two-minute noodle brand of patriotism than it does on common sense in order to further the plot. Featuring some adorable cameos from Anurag Kashyap and Vishal Dadlani and (yes, you're reading this right) Sajid Khan. This could have been a much better film if only it had dared to move out of its comfort zone. Happy New Year is a film that's bound to make you feel good, but trust me, the feeling won't last.
Rediff Rating:
Happy New Year
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah
Director: Farah Khan
Rating: 
Farah Khan's masala flick Happy New Year has everything going well businesswise but it's extremely low on content. It's grand, beautiful, shot in exotic locations across Dubai, has all the SRK moves which fans love, a hit Jodi (Shah Rukh Khan - Deepika Padukone), it's visually appealing but there is nothing else apart from that!
Happy New Year is a heist thriller with a lot of naach gaana. Charlie (Shah Rukh Khan) wants to take revenge from Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff) because he betrayed Charlie's father (Anupam Kher), which landed him in jail and led to his death.
Grover runs a safety lockers' business and now that he will be shielding an expensive diamond at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, Charlie will steal it. Coincidently the day the diamond is going to arrive there is a dance competition at the same hotel. Charlie forms a group of people who are good enough to steal but not good dancers. The team (Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah) now will take the help of a bar dancer Mohini (Deepika Padukone) to learn dancing and will eventually make their way to the vault.
The film is predictable and yes sometimes that's fine. You know the hero will make his way to the locker eventually but the journey to that locker should be gripping and entertaining and sadly this one is full of cliches. There are very few portions which are actually funny. Most of it is just illogical drama making no sense. It's not that I walked into the cinema to watch Happy New Year and find logic but in the film things don't fall into place and there are petty jokes. For instance, the Korean Dance Team is called Chicken Chilly and some dance moves make fun of Boman Irani while he gets recurring fits, now that's just bizarre!
Shah Rukh Khan has worked hard on his body for this film and he does a fine job of flaunting it. Extremely full of energy most of the times, he entertains. Deepika puts in sincere efforts but is limited because of the writing. Boman Irani plays a Parsi and is the funniest of the lot. Sonu Sood is brilliant. Abhishek Bachchan performs well too and so does Vivaan Shah.
Vishal Shekhar's music is good for the film, some songs set the mood since dance performances are a part of the plot.
Visually Happy New Year looks great but why wouldn't a film with a big banner, a talented filmmaker like Farah Khan, a good cast and great locations? That's never the challenge. The challenge is to entertain and Happy New Year falls short in entertaining, it's long length of over three hours being the weakest point.
There is no doubt that Farah Khan knows the craft well but she is yet to give an entertainer like Om Shanti Om.
If you go and watch Happy New Year, you will surely sit through it but will you walk out smiling? I can't take that guarantee.
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