October 6th, 2007Xcuse Me: Total timepass!
Style doesn’t have much of a ’story’. The film opens with a ear-blasting song Boom boom suggesting the end of Chantu and Bantu’s college life. Now begins their hunt for a job. They manage to obtain admission as hotel management trainees in a five star resort in Goa, after tricking its corrupt manager Gill (Saurabh Shukla). The rest of the movie is all about their fun-filled adventures — how they hoodwink the baddies, expose a fake maharani, etc. Jaya Seal and Sonali Joshi play the leading ladies and provide for the romantic angle.As far as the music is concerned, Sanjeev-Darshan fail to re-create Style’s magic. The tapori number Yeh tu kya kar reli hai, is very much like Excuse Me from Style. Boom boom, as mentioned earlier, is hard on the ear. Ditto for Ladki ladki. In fact, the songs, which are barely passable, are best forgotten.Over all, though, the movie is a fun experience. If you are not laughing at the leading men’s jokes and antics, you are laughing at their stupidity. Whichever way, your jawbones are always working. Watching XCuse Me would not be a bad idea this weekend.
October 6th, 2007Bluffmaster: A timepass blast!
The whole film tosses up twists in terms of cast. It is the unusual suspects who work the best in the movie. Riteish Deshmukh infuses spontaneity and crackle to the otherwise sluggish plot, and Priyanka Chopra is perfectly credible. The infallible Boman Irani doesn’t have much room to free his comedic arms, but his chuckle-provoking abilities are right in place.