Friday
Night is generally a time when I usually explore creativity and stupidity of
the entertainment world.
Yesterday
night I went to watch the movie of a man who epitomizes craft and perfection in
his movie .. the perfectionist Aamir Khan. Talaash a movie billed up as a
crime thriller and a movie from Aamir after a long time.
The
movie starts with accident of a film star whose car is bumped off deep into
sea. What seems to be a clear cut accident, later turns out to be outcome of a
blackmailing story. The main protagonist Sarjan Shekhwat(Aamir) i.e. The man who never sleeps, is troubled by
accidental death of his only son and his 12 year old marriage life. He always
thinks of what if situations that might have used to save his child's life, he
has lost interest in his personal life and his ever beautiful wife Roshni (Rani
Mukherjee).
Second half
with all the ingredients of what seems to be a edge of seat thriller begins
with Tehmur blackmailing friend of dead movie star Armaan Kapoor,he threatens to hand over a 3 year old video
recording and telling the truth of a prostitute being killed to police. The
audience here are in for a twist thinking the hand of the friend in star's
murder. Friend agrees to pay the money but as you know also sends men to kill
Tehmur. Incidents lead Aamir Khan in realizing that Mr. Kejriwaal ( Friend of
Armaan Kapoor) is the man behind the murder mystery. In the meanwhile you have
Rani Mukherjee talking to spirit for her died son with help of Frenny ( Shernaz
Patel) the one who had good rapport with dead world. Then you have a
confrontation between Rani and Aamir which is being executed brilliantly with Junior
officer saying "Main Baad me aata hoon sir".
You
think its going to be one terrific hell of ending, Aamir sees the very video in
Kerjriwal's home and realizes the girl in the video is the one hooker who is
giving him clue after clue and audience now think Kareena kapoor is the main
killer but what happens next is far from what we have seen in Aamir Khan
movie. The girl in video was killed three years back. Aamir while
taking Mr. Kejriwal to police station see Kareena in middle of the road,trying
to save the already dead his jeep fells into sea likewise it did in case of
actor. Then you have the spirit taking Aamir out of his jeep and subsequently
out of sea.
Suddenly
from an Aamir Khan Movie it becomes more of a Mahesh Bhatt horror flick where
the hooker's aatma was in fact giving clue to aamir for gaining salvation or
shall we say "Gainining Mukti for Her Atma". The script becomes
as if some one has drop salt in what promises to be an excellent evening
tea.Movie ends with Aamir discovering body of Kareena and reading
letter from his dead son.
So
what Aamir want us to think, he wants us to think that unhappy spirits exists
in the world, Is he serious? when we are facing serious population issues
is there any place for spirits left. A hole in the story is how can the
dead kareena kapoor aka Simran can tell pimp Sashi that "Tumhe itna
paseena kyun aa raha hai" when he was taking this three call girls for
customer.
Still
try to ignore logic as we dont have nowdays in movies of A-list actors. The
bollywood comes to full circle where One Khan make us to believe that he can
get into plane from Bike, the other khan make us to believe he is still 25 and
now Aamir want us to believe ghosts still exists.
Still
the movie is watchable because of its plot, powerful acting performances. Watch
it for Nawazudding siddique who from being Faizal of Gangs of Wasseypur then IB
Chief Khan of Kahaani, gives class act with Tehmur. Kareena Kapoor with
her Chameli Sequel Rosy/ Simran delivers a nice performance which makes you
ignore her flashy clothes.
The music is good and so are the songs "Jiye Lage Na"and "Jee le
Zara" which will be there with you once you leave the hall.
Three
and Half Cheers to this Aamir's crime thriller.
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