Review: Zila Ghaziabad is assembly-line garbage

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I ROFLed reading this interview!Have fun!! šŸ˜†šŸ˜†n if any1 has seen this movie...tell here how it was!!

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Review: Zila Ghaziabad is assembly-line garbage

Movie poster of Zila GhaziabadZila Ghaziabad's seemingly unapologetic disregard for authenticity, among other things, makes it substandard fare, writes Nishi Tiwari.

It takes a special kind of talent to make a film like Zila Ghaziabad.

The film evokes laughter, exasperation, and fear, but in all the wrong places.

Supposedly based on a real life rivalry between two Gujjar families in Ghaziabad, Anand Kumar's Zila Ghaziabad is a treasure trove of unintended humour -- but that too gets tiresome, to say the least.

The seemingly unapologetic disregard for authenticity is especially noteworthy.

The story is set in a place that is never identified in the film.

While it is established by way of random item numbers that the story is set in Ghaziabad district, it is referred to as a city, village, and district by various characters at various points in the film.

Pritam [
Images ] Singh Chauhan (played by Sanjay Dutt [ Images ]), a cop with a shady reputation, who has been charged with dealing with the warring families, has massive tattoos on his arm.

Characters switch from urban Hindi to awkward Haryanvi whenever they get angry or dramatic.

And it turns out that women in Ghaziabad in the 1990s were the most eccentric dressers of their time. So, while the city chairman (of what, we never get to know) has a daughter (Charmee Kaur) who alternates between chiffon saris and salwar kameez, the history sheeter's (Arshad Warsi [
Images ]) girlfriend (Minissha Lamba [ Images ]) saunters in and out of the frame wearing bronzer and lehengas that could have come fresh out of the latest fashion week.

One scene has Ashutosh Rana [ Images ] standing in front of a car with a Maharashtra [ Images ] registration number plate. Everybody smokes in the film save for Vivek Oberoi [ Images ]'s Satbir (presumably to establish that he's the good guy).

The film opens with an introductory song and Fauji (Warsi) dancing with his cronies after looting a train. The scene then shifts to the idealistic city-educated Satbir teaching kids -- who couldn't be more than five years old -- about non-violence.

The film moves forward at a manic pace -- after all, there are people waiting to be randomly bumped off before it's time for the climax.

So, the city chairman (Paresh Rawal [
Images ]) has a falling out with his henchman Fauji, who joins the rival gang of Rashid Khan (Ravi Kissen [ Images ]), leaving the chairman with his upright associate, Satbir, who is wary of getting sucked into the bloody war.

Nevertheless, Satbir finds himself in the middle of all the action and despite all the angst and regret he expresses (by his unnecessary facial contortions), seems to enjoy every bit of it.

There is no strategy, and no thought given to how each gang will one-up the other as they just go around killing off each other at whim.

Action scenes look like choreographed dance sequences -- Sanjay Dutt and Vivek Oebroi are literally flying in the climax fight scene -- and wisecracks are as asinine as can be.

At one point, Arshad Warsi says, "Tere pichhwade mein itni goliyan marunga ki tere bachche peetal ke paida honge." Wait, that doesn't make any sense.

That, primarily, is the motif of the film. It's a film made up of random shots, heavily- borrowed technique and half-baked direction.

The less said about the acting of the lead actors, the better. Vivek Oberoi, with his pseudo-idealist hero, is the most cringeworthy of the lot. Sanjay Dutt, with his glassy eyes is unabashedly having fun with little regard for the film's plot.

South actress Charmee Kaur, who showed some promise in her debut Hindi film Buddahh Hoga Tera Baap, in 2001, is completely wasted in the film and so is Arshad Warsi who looks more endearing than the affable Circuit when he's playing an irrational brute.

Chandrachur Singh does an ill-advised cameo as Satbir's older brother who manages to mouth dialogues without so much as moving a facial muscle.

To put it mildly, Zila Ghaziabad is assembly-line garbage.

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Source: https://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-zila-ghaziabad/20130222.htm

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Posted: 13 years ago
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lag hi raha tha this movie would be trash...!!...

zee reviews wale called oh-so dabangg type...!!...(what a insult to dabangg..!!)

tfs..!!
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Afsos, this one would not make 100 cr like Dabang & Race2šŸ˜’
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^^y afsos! u really thot this had potential of making it to 100 crore club! the club is trashy for sure..but itna trashy bhi nahi hai!šŸ˜† though..i feel bad for arshad...the guy is talented but is not seen in the right projects at the right time!
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Jahan pe ho vivek ka saaya woh film aaj tak kon bacha hain paaya šŸ˜† the trailer itself was bakwaas...i wonder why Talented actors like paresh Rawal did dis crap movie ...
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Originally posted by: Heart_Breaker

Jahan pe ho vivek ka saaya woh film aaj tak kon bacha hain paaya šŸ˜† the trailer itself was bakwaas...i wonder why Talented actors like paresh Rawal did dis crap movie ...

kabhi kabhi paapi pet ka bhi sawaal hota hai!!
n kabhi kabhi...the project starts off as something else..n by the time its ready for release...samay nikal chuka hota hai!!
I remember arshad was VVV excited abt this on twitter since past 1 yrs..lekin is ek saal mein ..indistry has changed a lot
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Zila Ghaziabad: 15 unbelievably corny lines from the film

Bollywood, Posted on Feb 22, 2013 at 11:24am IST
Ankit Tuteja, IBNLive.com

New Delhi: Zila Ghaziabad, starring Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi and Arshad Warsi is for 'aam junta'. Set in the backdrop of the yesteryear Ghaziabad when gang wars would dominate the city, the pot-boiler has a reasonably strong plot that does not bewilder you, and in fact, keeps you engaged.

Warsi and Oberoi, who are seen in lead roles, have done justice to their roles. Dutt, on the other hand, who plays a cop in the movie, seems to be copying Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn, who have done a similar role in the 'Dabangg' franchise and 'Singham', respectively.

Director Anand Kumar has included some dialogues to tickle your funny bones, but they turn out to be god-awful. Poor jokes are liked by people when spoken in comic scenes, but the movie has some hellish PJs during serious conversations that are likely to make you wince.


Zila Ghaziabad


We've spotted 15, feel free to add to the list:

1. "Gaaon ka sabse pada likha aur SEXFUL (though he wanted to say successful) aadmi hai", says Paresh Rawal when he introduces Vivek Oberoi (Satbir) to a policeman. (He is the most literate and successful person of the district.)

2. "Naa goliyon se kaam hua hai, na gaaliyon se, app angrezi mein hi jhaad dijeyega, sharm se hi mar jaaenge," Paresh Rawal advises Vivek Oberoi during a discussion concerning a disputed land. (Neither foul langauge, nor bullets helped us in getting the work done, you rebuke them in English, they will feel abashed.)

3. "Khade insaan ko maarna aisa hai, jaise mele mein gubbaare fodna," speaks Sanjay Dutt (Thakur Pritam Singh). (To kill a man standing still is like hitting balloons on a target board with a gun.)

4. "Agar pyaar se nahi aaya na toh saale ke pichwade mein itni goliyaan maarunga ke uske bache peetal ke paida honge," says Arshad Warsi (Fauji) to Chandrachur Singh (Satbir's brother) while gravelling him. (If he does not come quietly, I will shoot in his a** unremittingly that he will father children of brass)

5. "Kabhi chhal se, toh kabhi bal se kitno ki lanka dahayi hai, par is shahar ki hawa mein kuch alag hi garmi hai, isliye yahan akal ladane ki baari aayi hai," Sanjay Dutt while cogitates and mulling over the plan to deal with gangsters. (Have spifflicated many - sometime deceitfully and sometime with power - but now is the time to put the criminals down, slyly.)

6. "Kutta kitna bhi khatarnaak ho jaae, par sher ki nai le pata," utters Sanjay Dutt. (No matter how dangerous a dog becomes, but he can never slaughter a lion.)

7. "Baap dada shikaari, 'Pritam' un pe bhi bhaari, abhi kahan aayi inki baari," say police constables while making laudatory remarks for Sanjay Dutt. (Even ancestors can't outdo Pritam, and thus Pritam will triumph over gangsters.)

8. "Hum kaun se Salman Khan hai jo commitment karke peeche nai hat sakte," speaks a character, who plays the role of Sangam in the movie. (I am not Salman Khan, and hence, I can renege.)

9. "Yaad toh hum Madhuri Dixit ko bhi karte hai, wo kaun sa milti hai," expresses Sanjay Dutt, who is believed to have dated Madhuri Dixit in the past. (We dream of Madhuri Dixit, but she is not ours.)

10. "Sir apne chikne heroes toh chalte nahi, islie sab Sanjay Dutt bane fir rahe hain," says a police constable. (A police constable takes a dig at present-day heros and says all of them (goons in the scene) are aping Sanjay Dutt.)

11. Crook: "Sir pitaji income tax mein hai"; Sanjay Dutt: "par hum toh rishwat lete hi nahi."

12. Vivek Oberoi's Accomplice: "Ye sab netagiri muje nai aati"; Vivek Oberoi: "haath jodna aata hai? (and then grins)."

13. "Yahi toh Zila ghaziabad hai sahab, yahan koi halka nai moot ta hai." (Zila Ghaziabad is where no one pees lightly.)

14. "Aaj agar maut khud mere aur 'Fauji' ke beeche mein khadi ho jaae toh main maut ko bhi maar dunga." (I will kill even death if it comes between me and 'Fauji'.)

15. "Jo na kar paaye bandok ki goli, wo kar jaaye bus ek mithi boli." teaches Vivek Oberoi to pupils. (There are things which can't be done forcefully, but you can get them done with sweet talk)

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