Hoped they had a 0 or even minus rating!!
Thankfully (or not) we had a 8 year old amidst us and as she was
finding this movie quite a fun, we had a good time hearing her laugh
and watching her rolling in the seat :-)
Otherwise, i assure u we would have had a stroke or would have to get
ourselves admitted in agra mental asylum !! My sympathies with
guys who were not as lucky as us ....
Yes we had a few laughs because my friend had warned me it would be
intolerable and our expectations were ... NONE whatsoever!!
That said,, what really struck me was the obvious fact in the movie
that
THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR HAD MADE THIS MOVIE WITH A PRESUMPTION THAT Indian AUDIENCE HAS AN IQ OF AN 8 YEAR OLD!!!!
WHY ELSE DO ALL THE 'BIG BUDGET' movies like Chennai Express, Dubang 2
are made out to be as BRAINLESS as possible!!! THE DIRECTORS and
producers who r investing crores are not totally idiots are they!
Lets face it--- a low level shameless Hollywood rip-off ( Krish, dhoom
3) or a BRAINLESS comedy like ( golmaal returns, housefull, chennai
express, humshakals) MAKE FAR BIGGER BUCKS IN THE BOX OFFICE than a meaningful one like queen, dil chahta hai etc ( with very few exceptions like 3 idiots)
And this brings us to an 'ugly truth' conclusion that --
Just as 70% of India lives in villages, 90% of India's audience love low IQ / poor imitation movies which are usually racist/ show women as men's sex slaves or have non-veg jokes at the cost of homosexuals and
others...
Akshay Kumar and SRK have very well understood this phenomenon and
accordingly have changed the type of movies they sign up for. in the
last ten years, they have hardly made any movie which has even an iota
of meaning in it--
And yet they have gone on to become the richest of the lot!!!!
Akshay kumar, after herapheri success, suddenly resorted to such
brainless comedies ..
SRK - it's hard to believe that a guy who has acted in Swades and My
Name Is Khan ,, prefers to act in movies like Om Shanti Om and Chennai
Express!!
Both siblings- Farah (with SRK's blessings) and Sajid have eagerly
embraced this formula of BRAINLESS movies and unabashedly churn out
such blackhole movies...
And unless the 90% Indian audience, Whose brain has been addled by Ekta
Kapur soap operas, wake up from their stupor,, this is going to go on
:-)
However, one reassuring fact is that this phenomenon is not limited to India... It Is seen in hollywood too!
Don't believe me? Watch the following movies ( i dare you to watch it till the end! ;-D ) and u will have to agree with me :)
Pineapple express
This is The End
Superbad
These movies have Seth Rogen and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman ( not surprisingly, he ODed). I have found out that these guys are the US versions of Farah khan and Sajid .. I am serious!!
Rather than mentioning Jim Kerry as his inspiration at the start of Humshakals, Sajid Khan should have mentioned these two idiots as his inspiration-- it would have been more believable! :-D
I can only say this much- had Jim Kerry watched this movie, he would have shot / ODed himself! ( the poor fellow is already suffering from major depression, and Hamshakals would have been the final blow to his mental state!! ;) )
P.S. - to the TOI movie 'critics' who literally have no balls ( ha ha - that is funny acc. to sajid khan) , u seriosuly need to be replaced by someone who has any ( and i mean
figuratively ;) ha ha ha again- courtesy Sajid khan )
After all, how can a movie critic of such an established newspaper give a brainless and often racist movie like this a 3/5 score!!!!??!!!!
