Mon Avis : Cheeni Kum - Sugary Syrup

You have seen his slick ads.. now see a cinema through his lens... 10 minutes into the movie and you have this queer sensation that this movie is hatke.. It is one of those 'feel-good' cinema which is presented in such a convincing style that you actually stand up and applaud.. R.Balki's debut tryst with Bollywood oozes charm and feel of the romance that every other teenage flick tries so desperately to produce...

By now the characters and the plot is very well known to most so lets not overuse those...

Ups:

• Tabu...to borrow from another review " Tabu has balls" and she puts all those over rated heroines to shame..the role is played with such a finesse that for once you are shocked.. she is tremendously believable and holds your attention with her grace in each frame... There hasnt been a finer cinema off late. The ease with which she delivers otherwise so purile dialogues... for instance a scene in which she exhorts amitabh to run across a hundred meters to touch a tree and run back...only to tell him later that she wanted to know if he had the stamina to do "it"...the camera simply adored her.. and so did the audience
• BigB... The man is only getting younger with age...debonairly suave...from sexy sam to almost a similar demeanour.. the guy is unstoppable... you must see the scene where he changes into a pure white suit..... he looks no lesser than his son Abhi... He is one legend that Hindi Cinema is only too blessed to have.... Specially when all his peers (Shammi et al) are in oblivion
• The screenplay.. is rolled out to perfection.. so engrossing and suave that one hour into the movie you forget that the characters have not even spoken their names... every frame bears a strange simplicity that only a meticulous ad man is known to have.. when they are all used to capture an entire epic in a 30-second shot...
• The girl (dont know the name) called sexy.. is a role fantastically played out and surprisingly refreshing...unlike you would have seen in a long time...

Downs:

• Length of the movie is a pain... the movie drags for 150 minutes even without more than 3 songs... it gets a little sluggish in the end...
• Paresh Rawal is simply wasted.. His comic streak is completely missing when he is just been made busy playing protective father to aging unmarried daughter
• Some loopholes in the script....some moments in the end (one at Ashoka Pillar) is completely avoidable...

Anyway.. it is a must watch... sugary syrup that will never look like a diabetic overdose.. (smile)

PS : - PiratesIII is a waste of money...Donate your money to your worst enemy rather than buy the tickets to this movie.. you will still feel better...