So ladies and gentlemen, this is the film that officially announces the end of Akshay Kumar's career, who's definitely lost his charisma. If it works at some level, it's only because of Katrina's wholehearted participation in the collaboration to make her look like dummy. She's clever because she allows the movie to laugh at her. As is Akshaye Khanna as an actor who discovers his mojo by acting in a fake film as a "krantikari" who loots a running train. Akshay Kumar, on the other hand, looks jaded and faded, trying too hard to step into a role that was obviously written for a much wittier and fleeter Shah Rukh Khan.
In fact, Shah Rukh Khan's ghost hangs all over the film.
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Wish there was more Farah in the movie and less Shirish, less Akshay Kumar and more Shah Rukh Khan, less everyone and more Katrina.
Well, that says it all...clearly this person is no fan of Akshay. I like Akshay, but I have to agree his latest films are striking a one-tone note...he needs to move on from the moulds he puts himself in; first the action-hero-cop, now the comic nitwit....I want to see some serious change in the films he chooses from now on....otherwise he is in danger of becoming stale.
And as for the ultimate question - is the success of Farah Khan's films down to one man - SRK? Um well.....;)
As an SRK fan, I too, like Nimrah, have this schadenfreude-like reaction to the fact that TMK is flopping without SRK. On the other hand, whatever her films may be like, Farah Khan is one of a handful of female directors in commercial Bollywood, and one would like to think that she can be the one solely responsible for the success of her films...and not have to rely on a man to do it for her. ON the other hand, many reviewers have suggested that Farah has made a half-hearted attempt with this film...as if the whole SRK-Farah drama caused her to lose interest in her own film. Don't know how true that is, but I am conflicted. I think, however, the SRK fan in me is taking more control in this case š
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