Chennai
Express: The future of Indian Cinema – crass, tasteless, humiliating and
definitely worrying. My polite two bits to explain why…
Dear
God,
Let’s
start with some good points and the myriad not-so, this fare presented…
Like: Popcorn, Trailers, Interval,
exchanging texts, Kumbakonam, Sathyaraj (despite the modicum role), gyrations
by Priyamani and Deepika P.
Dislike: Everything else interspersed
between the above.
SRK: After Chak de, my respect
for him has only dwindled. Chennai Express brought it to a head. Thankfully,
this movie establishes his age upfront but his histrionics still make you want
to believe he is the tried and tested Rahul from yesteryears. In almost every
frame (again!!!!), he turns out to be a damp squib.
Sathyaraj: The delightful but highly
underrated Sathyaraj is wasted. What was he thinking when he signed up for this
non-existent story!?!
Deepika P: Probably the only part of the
movie that looked good!!!! Deepika’s Tamil was hardly convincing. If you thought
all Tamilians’ve gotten their masculine and feminine genders confused, you are
wrong!
The
DDLJ, Antakshiri sequences couldn’t conjure up a smile. Lame lines intended to
be funny like SRK’s sheepish, “Woh meri seat hai, my seatum!” or “Lekin, main!” when asked to go to Rameshwaram.
“Main” what?
“Don’t
underestimate the power of a common man” doesn’t found funny by any means. I
guess the maker of this movie understood it and sooner than later replaced it
with an even ridiculous “Don’t underestimate the common of a power man” Really!
Overall,
the movie was humiliating, especially since the intended and unintended humour
was targeted at Tamilians. Tamilians do not speak Hindi the way the movie
depicts. Why, most Tamilians do not even speak the national language with all
the political shenanigans at play.
What’s
up with Chenaai?!?! Or Thaangabali?!?!?
Plot: why bother! Besides if you
left your brains at home, does it matter?
That
I contributed to the 100 Cr., the movie earned in its opening week irks me the
most.
To
friends, fair-weather and genuine well wishers, who urged me to leave my brains
home before the fare, I pity you! Haven’t we seen madder and yet thoroughly
enjoyable movies like Andaaz Apna Apna or Dhamaal?
To
some others who provided their highly insightful, “after hours of hard work, I
want to relax and watch a light movie”, you’ve gotten it wrong. You endure
slime throughout the day and then close it with more slime doled out by a
mindless crew. Only in the former, you get paid!
So
how does one express ire towards CE and its ilk? – Boycott them or watch the
pirated version.
Issued in Public Interest
