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Back To The Future anyone? The credits might say that Action Replayy is based on a Gujarati play by the same name but in reality it's a rehash of the Back To The Future (1985), starring Michael J Fox. In the original, Fox had to make sure his parents meet, fall in love and marry. Here, the onus falls on debutant Aditya Roy Kapoor. Despite the whacky plot, you liked the film because of Fox's superlative acting. Well, in the Hindi version it's Akshay who endears you with his antics.
It's not the Khiladi kumar, the action star Akshay or the slapstick version of Akshay that you get to see but an actor who is thoroughly enjoying his role. You like him when you see him affect a swagger. You like him when his legs are shaking when he puts on a facade of false bravado. And you like him when, like everyone else in he audience, he seems thoroughly smitten by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Ms Bachchan too knows she's playing an archetypical tomboy. She makes sure she doesn't turn into a caricature but infuses flesh and blood into her character. The duo do have enough on-screen chemistry to keep you interested and you wonder why they haven't done many more films together.
Director Vipul Shah has created a '70s that's quite filmy. The streets are squeaky clean and everyone wears the Manish Malhotra version of '70s clothes. He does spoof filmy norms but with a reverential touch. And when he borrows from films – like the song duel from Hum Kisise Kaum Naheen (1977) – he doesn't just copy paste from the original but adds his own touch.
The dialogue is crisp and so is the editing. It's the screenplay which lets you down. One wishes Shah had made it more taut and less 'hole-some'. But overall, the film does raise a fair share of laughs. And, to be fair, it is free of toilet humour which has become the byword for comedy in recent times. With a little more effort, it could have become a cult classic but that's neither here nor there.
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Catch the action and you're likely to replay the experience. Vipul Shah's 'Action Replayy' comes with a very different theme and story. Going back in time and setting one's life right, in this case, one's parents' life right, on paper, at least, has a lot of potential. The film itself plays out quite interestingly and the Seventies have been very lovingly recreated by Shah and Co, especially in the costumes and the music department. Like the Seventies, the film is full of bright hues, psychedelic pinks, blues and lots of polka dots and makes for a lovely retro trip. But besides looking good cosmetically, the film also manages to tell a good story.
'Action Replayy' is basically the story of a couple, Mala (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and Kishen (Akshay Kumar) who are constantly bickering with one another and have an exceedingly unhappy marriage, a fact which causes great distress to their only child, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor), going so far as to totally put him off against the institution of marriage itself, much to his girlfriend's dismay. Things come to head at their 25th wedding anniversary, where Kishen's old rival and Mala's friend, played by Ranvijay Singh, turns up and proceeds to insult him.
This cause a further rift between Kishen and Mala and both leave the party in tears. Meanwhile, Bunty's girlfriend takes him to meet her grandfather, played byRandhir Kapoor, in a rare appearance. He plays a scientist who has just invented a time machine and is all set to go on a test ride. But Bunty tricks him and gets on to the machine himself armed with the intention of going back to the Seventies and setting his parent's marriage right (a harkback to the famed 1985 Michael J. Fox starrer 'Back To The Future' helmed by Robert Zemeckis)
Now back in time, he proceeds to go ahead and make friends with both his parents, who are unmarried at this point of time and are sworn enemies, Now begins his mammoth task of bringing up his father and helping him to become more assertive and charming. He plays cupid between his warring parents and manages to get them to fall in love and marry. His job done, he comes back to the present, back to the same anniversary party, where everything had gone all wrong and finds to his relief and delight that circumstances have changed for the better. His parents are now in love with each other, making it much easier for him to propose to his girlfriend.
Even though the film belongs to Akshay and Ash, there is no doubt that Aditya steals the show with his charm and boyish style. There is something extremely endearing about this actor's appearance and he comes across as a much more polished actor in this movie, highly improved from his first appearance in 'London Dreams' by the same director.
The role of the son is quite crucial to the film's plot and Aditya seems to fit the bill perfectly. In fact, it is because he has such an endearing presence that one tends to overlook the fact that nobody in the Seventies, seems to question who he is and what he is doing dressed so differently. He is much too easily accepted, a fact that the writer should have looked into.
The scenes in the past are quite amusing and have been very cleverly done. It is rare to see Akshay playing such an unhero like character. He is shown quite an unppealing presence. But this ugly duckling is transformed into handsome and confident man, due to coaching from his own son. Akshay acquits himself with ease and confidence as the timid Kishen, who swoons after Mala holds his hand. He is well supported by Ash, who plays a Seventies style 'mawaali' girl, who turns from tormentor to Kishen's lover.
Rannvijay Singh plays the third angle to this love story and does his best to foil all of Aditya's plans but has to bow to destiny in the end. Neha Dhupia appears for a little bit and is quite good. Kirron Kher and Om Puri make for lovely adversaries and their car sequences are quite hilarious. Rajpal Yadav is quite a treat to watch, as always. But the honours certainly do belong to Aditya, who has truly arrived with this film. It's a good build up for his next movie, 'Guzaarish', where he will again be sharing space with Ash and Hrithik Roshan.
The film has been very well shot and the Seventies have been recreated quite well. Pritam's music adds to feel and look of the movie. Going retro never seemed so much fun. Go... grab your retro thrills.
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| To recreate the bygone era and tell a story about it is nothing short of a challenge, and that's exactly what director Vipul Shah is out to achieve with his latest outing Action Replayy. Time travel stories are no longer alien to Bollywood. We have had our share of movies where characters have either travelled into the future or into the past. In Action Replayy, one of the protagonists travels into the past because he feels only if he betters the past will his family live in harmony in the present. Special: All about Action Replayy Action Replayy does not share any similarity with David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [2008]. However, the film does bring back memories of the outstandingly executed Back to the Future, a 1985 American science-fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The only difference is that the character played by Michael J Fox accidentally goes into the past, but in Action Replayy, the boy seems to be on a mission. A light-hearted rom-com with a dash of sci-fi thrown in, Action Replayy should be viewed without really seeking much rationale or logic behind every action and reaction. Of course, Action Replayy is no perfect film, for it has its share of blemishes, which actually curtails its groW*H to an extent. Bunty [Aditya Roy Kapur] loves his girlfriend Tanya, but runs a mile whenever she mentions marriage. His phobia with matrimony stems from his parents Kishen [Akshay Kumar] and Mala's [Aishwarya Rai Bachchan] acrimonious marriage. But now Bunty is in a fix. Tanya's grandfather, Professor Anthony Gonsalves [Randhir Kapoor], has given him an ultimatum - get married to Tanya or stop seeing her. Bunty knows that unless he does something fast, his dreams of living happily ever after with Tanya will bite the dust. As Bunty's surprise party for his parent's 35th wedding anniversary deteriorates into yet another explosive fight between Kishen and Mala, he decides to turn back the clock and rewrite Kishen and Mala's destiny and alter their disastrous marriage into a romantic affair of the hearts. And how does he do that? By using the professor's time machine to travel back in time. To a time when Kishen and Mala were not married. To a time when Kishen's father Rai Bahadur [Om Puri] and Mala's mother Bholi Devi [Kirron Kher] were sworn enemies. To a time when Kishen was a certified nerd, bullied merciless by Kundan [Rannvijay]. To a time when Mala couldn't stand the sight of Kishen and took great pleasure in ragging him. Images: Akshay & Ash ride the 'love scooter' | Akshay Kumar turns DJ |Preview: Action Replayy Bunty has to transform his father from a wimp into an eligible bachelor and his mother from a tomboy into the epitome of feminine grace. Then he has to attempt the impossible - make them fall in love with each other. And finally he has to make his grandparents agree to their love marriage. Doesn't the synopsis sound really good on paper? But the question is, has the director executed the wonderful story idea with panache and have the writers come up with a taut screenplay? Action Replayy is the fifth film Vipul Shah and Akshay Kumar have done together afterAankhen, Waqt, Namastey London and Singh is Kinng [which was produced by him and directed by Anees Bazmee], and it's evident that the two share great work chemistry. Also, I genuinely feel that Vipul's script sense is good; he likes to attempt diverse genres, exploring new territories each time he attempts a film. When attempting a movie on a concept like time travel, it's imperative that the writing should be so persuasive that the viewer is influenced into believing that people can travel into the past or future. In this case, a little bit of additional gyan would have only enhanced the impact of the story. But whatever minimal is said about time travel in the film doesn't register effectively. An unfortunately, the time machine itself looks tacky and tawdry, and does little in convincing you that this piece of scrap can transport you into a departed era - 1975 in this case. The screenplay writing is flawed and a few tracks just don't cut ice. The track involving Rannvijay is lacklustre and the least convincing. Also the track involving the warring neighbours [Om Puri and Kirron Kher] is half-baked. The portions involving Randhir Kapoor and Neha Dhupia are undeveloped and the climax is far from comic. The blame falls completely on screenplay writers Suresh Nair, Ritesh Shah and Aatish Kapadia for coming up with an unimaginative screenplay, despite having a brilliant concept in hand. What really salvages the otherwise flawed script is the pace and the length of the film and, of course, the performances of its principal cast. The film moves at a brisk pace, although I wish to add that if a couple of scenes from the first hour are deleted, the second hour would get a bit more impactful. Vipul Shah seems to have kept a strict vigil on the length of the film, not allowing it to over-exceed and making it less burdensome and more enjoyable for the viewer. However, the film is not a patch on his earlier works, especially Waqt andNamastey London. He's made far superior films in the past. Pritam comes up with a likable score, with Zor Ka Jhatka and O Bekhabar, which is soothing and reminds you of a Yash Chopra composition. Nakhre is catchy and hummable. Sejal Shah's cinematography is alright. I'd like to make a specific note of Salim-Sulaiman's background score, which is amongst the best of 2010. The duo's contribution to the film is immense, since even an ordinary sequence gets enhanced with the right sound. The costumes and styling deserve brownie points, while the sets of the bygone era are realistic. The only negative is the time machine. Both Akshay and Aishwarya remain faithful to their characters and come up with winning performances. It requires a lot of courage for a good looking man like Akshay to look the opposite of what he is, with buck teeth and long hair, and he carries it off convincingly. He's wonderful in both young and old parts. Ditto for Aishwarya, who enacts the over the top Mala with understanding of the character. Even the elderly Mala has been effectively portrayed by her. The real surprise is Aditya Roy Kapur, who looks extremely persuasive as the demoralised and dispirited son of Akshay and Ash. He's fantastic. This act should open new vistas for the youngster. Special: All about Action Replayy Distinguished actors like Om Puri, Kirron Kher and Rajpal Yadav come across as mere props with sketchy characterisations. They are under-utilised, but despite this they give all their might and power to the roles. Rannvijay is the least convincing, while Randhir Kapoor and Neha Dhupia are wasted. On the whole, Action Replayy is a light-hearted rom-com. A slightly dreary first hour, but a racy second hour with top notch performances makes it a decent watch this Diwali. Rating: Three stars ~BY: sify |
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