I guess a string of movies spanning from the bad to the ugly and to the uttermost ridiculous got me thinking about the state of our so called 'hit' movies...comedy that 'hits' you in the face...movies that 'hit' your 'intelligence' and knock you down unconsciuos? I had the mighty good fortune of enduring one of a kind 'blockbuster' movie called Ready..but unlike its producers I was so NO ready for this experience...the story (if you can even remotely call it a story) was heading nowhere..it was a Mr SKHAN from the word go till we leave the hall in dismay and astonishment. He walks the walk, talks the talk..once in a while attempts to romance, 'action' and of course rips off his shirt (squeezing out the final rewards from this actor - again if you can remotely call him one) and the audience is supposed to eat their hearts out from this 'so-called' performance? And the supporting string of actors (you could very well call them props) lend no support to this miserabe experience. Guess my personal prejudice against the lead actor apart, even if you did a find & replace of SKHAN with Brad Pitt, I wonder if I could have sat through this 3 hour ordeal? For someone belonging to a generation who has grown up on 'classic witty' comedy of the likes of Lal, Srinivas (for the Mal in me) the comedy is unbelievably slapstick..dialogues almost seem like they were written as the Khan was putting on his makeup just before the word 'Action'. And lastly to touch upon my most 'emotional' topic - regarding the music of the movie..talk about the 'healing' sense of music...i was definitely dumbstruck at the meaningful lyrics of the song 'dingachika'...and the depth of the lyrics was equally matched (if not more) by the dancers that were splashed on the screen. All in all what I can say but to suggest to our censor board to probably introduce a category called 'PA' for all such movies that border and probably crossed the terrain called 'ridiculous'...Premature Adult category is the only sane category that I can fit this experience into.!
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