Saturday, January 8, 2011

Tees Maar Khan – What went wrong?

For the hindi movie aficionado in search of a good laugh riot, there are a few directors who oblige and deliver … sometimes. Farah Khan is out of that cabal. Erstwhile chic and queen of Bollywood masala, Farah seems like a fish out of water. Whatever could have prompted a veteran director of sorts to venture on a pitiful debacle of Tees Maar Khan, remains a mystery. The plot hangs around a modern day Frank Abagnale (Tees Maar Khan), who also doubles up as a Houdini when it comes to giving the cops the slip. Khan accompanied by his sidekicks lands up in a village while being on the run. His desire is to do an ultimate caper of robbing a train, which would require a mini army of sorts. The brainwave of pretending to embark upon a Bollywood nationalist movie requiring every denizen to play a small role in the great train robbery is a new chapter in the art of conniving cons which is laudable, but fails to deliver with mediocre directing and editing. The audacity of the movie which expects the public to lap up the drivel that is offered is seen to be believed. There are a few positives in the movie – a few funny punches, a decent music score, a decent performance from both Akshay’s. Tees Maar Khan is reminiscent of a movie which could have been made a box-office winner if more thought was put into it. The veteran director David Dhawan, who has a penchant for such drivel could possibly have a pulled it off and gone laughing all the way to the bank. But in its current state, we can just say – ‘Tees lakh Maar khao’ for Tees Maar Khan.

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