Tuesday, December 30, 2008

KILL GHAJNI before it kills the audience

Commercialization is one thing and senseless murder of creativity and depicting mindless nonsense on screen is another.
Verdict?
Guilty of treason to Amir khan’s fans and accountable for killing my few functional neurons.
Ghajni is not a movie, it is a crime, it is a mortal sin, it is unfair to the humanity, it is an idea which has been copied from a Hollywood movie and stabbed millions of times with a razor sharp sword. Ghajni is terrorism. It is a spurious display of intellectual dysfunctionality on the part of the director, actors, producers and each and every one that is involved in this blasphemous presentation of mindless production.
I know life is not fair and sometimes you are dished something that you do not like, but it hurts a lot. I am not a diehard fan of Amir khan and this movie should not affect me that much but the fact that he raised the expectations so much and considering the novel idea of the movie, the movie could have been done in a lot better manner. This movie has brought down the level of Indian movies buy quite a few rungs.
Since so much of money has been put into the movie, the producers are leaving nothing to chance and the marketing of the movie had been flawless which means that more people inside and outside india were looking forward to this movie. A movie which has this much exposure should have been made with an objective towards not only pleasing the audience but also showcasing art and sane situations. Some of the movies have excelled in doing this and have been embraced with gratitude from the cinema lovers in our country but this movie has proved that Indian filmmakers have not yet matured, atleast not all of them.
With the movie hitting the theatre curtains, I was excited to watch it as soon as possible and see if Amir khan would be able to match his past performance or not. My excitement was killed brutally when I saw that a group of suited people (supposedly Amir’s subordinates) are approaching a girl working in an advertisement company. If they had a little sense they would have just called her or met her at her home instead of assembling a whole army of executives to visit her at her work place. Probably the directors were not satisfied with the heroine’s overacting and decided to torture the audience more with Amir khan joining the party. He did work out pretty good and left no stone unturned in showing off his biceps or abs. It seemed as if he was very conscious of his body and looked quite uncomfortable with it. His natural charm waned every time he tried to bulge his muscles.
Giving a lecture in Hindi in front of the international journalists and being stupid enough to offer credit card to pani puri wala freaked me out of my wits. The heroine displayed the epitome of her stupidity when she started giving lecture to the villain who just told her that he has killed two girls and that too at a place where she could not avail any help at a time when even all the owls would have fallen asleep. When Amir khan with his short stature was beating the hell out of hefty villains it seemed like that the law of gravity did not apply for the villains. At one point of fighting Amir khan punches a man on the face and the man falls down on the ground with his neck turned 180 degrees. That was the point I did pray to god to give me “short term memory loss” just like Amir khan so that I would also forget the onscreen torture. Tattoo makers could have had a brisk business outside the cinema halls if they were offering “KILL AMIR” tattoos.
Such a big star carries lot of responsibilities on his shoulders and he is capable of doing much better. I am sure that I will be able to forgive Amir for this fiasco and be able to go to his next movie……but only if I don’t watch ghajni again.