THANK YOU Movie REVIEWs ( Anupama's Review on Pg1)

Welcome and Singh is Kinng were two big blockbusters for Akshay Kumar & Anees Bazmee, but their recent outings Patiala House and No Problem respectively did not set the box office ablaze. Now, these two are back together with Thank You, which also stars Bobby Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Irrfan Khan, Rimi Sen and Celina Jaitley. Will Thank You bring back the lost glory for Akshay, will the YPD star Bobby have a rub of goodluck on Akki, will Anees Bazmee's Problems end and he will be back in form with Thank you. Well, lets find out.

Thank You is a story of 3 friends Raj [Bobby Deol], Yogi [Suniel Shetty] & Vikram [Irrfan] who basicly are womanizers. Yogi has already been caught by his wife Maya [Celina Jaitley] thanks to her detective friend Kishan [Akshay Kumar]. Raj's wife Sanjana [Sonam Kapoor] also finds something fishy about her husband so Maya asks Kishan to help Sanjana out. Well, Kishan is spellbound when he first see's Sanjana, and then he plans doomsday for Raj and his friends. So, what is Kishan upto ? Will he help Sanjana get back Raj to fall in love with her or will he make her fall in love with him ? If he is helping Sanjana & her friends to get back their husbands, why is he doing so ? Is there any history behind Kishan ? These questions will be answered when you watch Thank You.

Thank You is all about how 3 womanizers are tamed by one man to get them on the right track that also in a light hearted and entertaining way.

There are some great things this movie has brought for good. For a change Anees Bazmee has told a story without making things much complicated. He made it sure that the movie does not go over the top at all. Another thing is that Akshay too hasn't done his goofy joker kinda antics which had started irritating the audience.

The things which are not too great are the humour quotient, which is a bit low when compared to Bazmee's movies like No Entry, Singh Is Kinng and Welcome. Nothing much happening in the second half. The climax too, does not take the movie on the high that one expects. Although it is not a laugh-riot still, it's a decent entertainer.

The director Anees Bazmee who just directed a nonsense movie last year, looks to be coming back in form with Thank You. He has taken into consideration, his previous mistakes and has worked on it. The climax also does not contain panicky situations or a Priyadarshan kinda full starcast mayhem, instead it contains emotional quotient but with a few laughs. Though he does not manage to pull out a bringing the house down experience, but still he has made Thank You an enjoyable fare.

The music by Pritam is excellent. Razia and Pyaar Do Pyaar Lo are already popular and look great on the big screen too. The story is again on a waferthin plot, which has to be expected, but the screenplay is quite likable. The dialogues don't leave an impression, none of the dialogues are worth remembering, but thankfully they haven't compulsorily inserted one liners and pj's. The cinematography could have been better, but the songs are shot well.

Akshay Kumar is back with a bang, he for a change has given a controlled performance. He is funny, he is wicked and he has some great scenes in the movie. Thank You may not be his best performance but it sure is the best in recent times, nothing extra-ordinary, but just what the role demanded. Bobby Deol is back after a big hit in Yamla Pagla Deewana and he looks more confident towards comedy now. Deols always known for action (Only Dharmendra was known for both Action as well as Humour) have now learnt how to tickle the funny bone. He handles both light and emotional scenes well. He may not have the funniest of lines but he does well within the boundaries. Suniel Shetty may not have a meaty role as compared to Akki and Bobby but surely he has the best lines, scenes and reactions that bring laughter. He after Hera Pheri way back has come up with a great performance. Irrfan Khan has his typical style and that is what worked for him. Although he plays a great support to Akki and Bobby but he clearly steals the thunder with a sincere performance. Irrfan and Suniel provide majority of the comic relief.

Now for the ladies, Sonam Kapoor is decent but she still looks awkward in emotional scenes. Rimi Sen is the best among the ladies and shows everyone that she is a talented actress. Celina Jaitley doesn't get much scope but her scenes with Suniel are just too good. Here, Rimi and Celina are the one's who provide the comic relief.

For the supporting cast there was not much to do but Rakhi Tandon and Mukesh Tiwari were good. Cameo's played by Vidya Balan was good and Ranjeet was decent.

Thank You has the perfect recipe to fulfill the hunger for entertainment. This movie has a great cast, terrific music and plenty of funny moments to offer, which is mainly what many people may be eye-ing for to break their movie hunger after a dry march. The box-office prospects look bright for this movie although IPL is on the verge still, movie goers may prefer Thank You over cricket because there is no big release for next two weeks and there is an overdose of cricket from the past few months.

Thank You is more of a clean family entertainer which one can enjoy with the entire family. The humour is limited, but it ain't forced, you won't fall down laughing but still you may giggle a bit.

Watch Thank You for some great performances by the cast, some hilarious moments and great music.

Rating ' 3.5 / 5 stars

Gurpreet Bhuller, Moviehattan Team
April 7, 2011 | 2:27 AM IST

Review: Thank You is unwatchable

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I suspect Akshay Kumar [ Images ] makes most of his movies just for the workout. Looking at his interchangeable comic roles, the actor increasingly seems to limit himself through the motions, flicking on that auto-pilot switch behind his head as he grins and grimaces and groans and guffaws, the latter working overtime in the way laugh-tracks used to do in old sitcoms: if you hear enough laughing, chances are you'll crack open a chuckle yourself.

Well, at least in theory. Despite Kumar's joker-in-a-box automaton attempts, Anees Bazmee's latest film Thank You goes nowhere, and takes forever to, um, not get there.

Frequently the film, like leading man Kumar, doesn't even bother with the attempt of being funny. And perhaps it really is high time we the audience stopped paying multiplex prices to watch Akshay Kumar go to his gym.

The story is template Bazmee: three wives decide to teach their straying husbands a lesson. Enter a private detective --specialising in husband-rehabilitation -- who, after raking the three husbands over the coals through the film, decides to eventually let Worst Husband Ever off the hook because said husband has now turned homicidal.

"That passion in your eyes," raves the detective, referring to bloodshot, trigger-happy rage, "is just what I wanted to see. Go remarry your wife."

Yes, it is just that kind of a film. It is also one that mistakes itself for being sensitive simply because it rallies against the male sex for philandering, before calling that a habit, a "chhoti-si aadat."

But hey, the filmmakers say, we're also calling men dogs so that automatically shows we're sympathetic towards women, right? (Feel free to insert an appropriately sized eye-roll here, do.)

Speaking of women, there are three here with predictably little to do. Sonam Kapoor [ Images ] spends most of the film realistically bawling her eyes out -- presumably lamenting being in a film this moronic -- and occasionally being shrill. Not being say, a Karisma Kapoor, she doesn't fit into the idiocy at all.

Rimi Sen [ Images ], by virtue of being in many a scriptless film, has learnt to PareshRawal-ise her expressions enough to count as halfway funny, or at least funny-looking, and even Bazmee decides to keep Celina Jaitley's [ Images ] involvement to a minimum. (Thank You, Mr Director.)

Irrfan Khan [ Images ], completely out of sorts as a know-it-all player and seducer of women, is markedly better in the second half when he doesn't have a clue but that's simply because Khan is a good actor particularly brilliant at acting clueless.

Kumar, also a fine actor, chooses in these films not to even try, and it is this that brings us to one of those chilly-days-in-Hell kind of declarations: that Suniel Shetty [ Images ] is the best thing in this film.

I kid you not. My fingers kept recoiling as I shakily typed that out but it is true. Shetty, who hasn't been watchable in over a decade, actually cuts loose with slapstick flair in this one. He owns the only actual jokes in the film (two, I counted) and genuinely seems to be having a good time.

Too bad he's the only one. Call me ungrateful but, in a nutshell, no thank you.

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