Monday, March 24, 2008

Race - brainless, good fun

From the first two minutes of Race - where an expensive car is blown up in a pretty impressive stunt you realise one thing.

This is one slick production. This is Dhoom ka chhota bhai (because the stars are chhota in comparison) but it's the same family of films. The hum Hollywood ke baap hain genre.

You have hot girls, ours are hotter
You have car chase, ours is faster.
And so on.

Abbas Mastan have built a rep as 'thriller' specialists. This one is set against the backdrop of the world of horse racing. The real race, however, is between Ranvir (Saif Ali Khan) and Rajiv (Akshaye Khanna).

The film is being battered by some for making no sense. But two points in Abbas-Mastan's defence. Things happen quickly, so you can overlook the implausible bits while in the theatre (later of course you will say yeh kyun aur woh kyun). Secondly, if you have seen 'Cash', which had NO STORY at all, you will appreciate how intelligent this film is!

Of course there are unnecessary item numbers galore. The only good song being Pehli Nazar by Atif Aslam. And Katrina Kaif can't act, or dance, to save her life. Neither can Sameera Reddy but hey. We know what they're in the film for!

The comedy track by Anil Kapoor (playing Inspector RD) is inane beyond imagination. But I laughed anyways. Johnny Lever, in a very brief appearance, also provides some ha has.

And, the makers of the film leave enough clues hanging here and there for you to guess the suspense. The biggest one being: can a hero ever really die before the interval?

Still I would say it's a good timepass film. I give it 3.5 stars. And just to clarify, this is my movie rating system:

5 stars: Amazing - wouldn't watching again
4 stars: Great - definitely should be watched, once
3 stars: Good, if looking for timepass
2 stars: Sad, catch it on TV sometime
1 star: Do not watch, even if someone pays you to!

Race is a 3 star film. But just because they tried to wrap up the loose ends and for the stunning beaches of Cape Town (which I am dying to visit, in this lifetime!) I give it .5 stars extra. Watch it and decide if I was too generous!

19 comments:

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  2. Unrelated:

    Hi, I've sent you a mail on rashmi_b at yahoo dot com. Do reply if you can.



    VM.

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  3. Kinda agree...
    not much substance...but good timepass and never boring...

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  4. cliched dialogue, predictable plot
    but not broing film :(

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  5. After going through your article I have disided to see race

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  6. Went for the movie without any expectations after having suffered through Abbas Mustan's last 2 movies which were absolute nonsense.The only reason this movie was good was because of the leading men.

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  7. ...fultu timepass...don't bring your brains...make the stimulation bypass :P

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  8. "Watch it and decide if I was too generous!"

    You were.. but am not judging you!
    Maybe because I actually paid 200 bucks to watch in a multiplex when I could have easily found several other cheaper ways of passing the time of the day :(

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  9. Was going to review it too..My thoughts exactly..i was a bit hestitant to watch race after 'cash' but race really has quite a few twists and turns that will always keep you wondering..Inspector "RD" (Anil Kapoor) was quite a nice addition to the cast that kept the post interval session interesting..sadde theen..perfect ;)

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  10. ummm..shouldn't no.5 in the rating sequence be 'wouldn't MIND watching again'? :-))

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  11. it's suuuuch a bad movie that i would only recommmend it for people who want to have their brains pickled in slime or something!

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  12. I think I would choose to catch it on TV sometime after that review :)

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  13. Rashmi!!
    You are too generous for this movie. it's okay but, it's your personal choice. i think this movie is the "COMBINATION OF ALL EPISODES OF ANY SERIAL CREATED BY EKTA KAPOOR". so many twists, so many U turns, seems like director had thoughts of new experiments daily and he did everything GODDAMN thing to fulfill his "thirst". Don't mind, i spent 180/- bucks(coke, shoke etc excluding) and honestly i recovered only 25/- out of all(courtsy cleavages of all females). the only watchable in movie (besides cleavage) is SAIF, i am not gay, but he is too good in movie.

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  14. Here is a review from my relative (I recommended the movie to her after reading your post). She sent me the following reply by email:

    This is to inform you that my husband and I have saved all of you the trauma of sitting through a disaster of a film called RACE. It’s probably the worst movie we’ve seen in recent times. In fact I remember hating the movie MARD (remember the Amitabh-Amrita starrer?) which I saw with my Brother, Papa and Maa but that seems like a masterpiece compared to this one. Nothing that I’ve seen compares to this one. Inane and completely brainless – and actually questioning one’s intelligence and sensibilities. It was as if the movie was being made on the spot – the characters spoke dialogues on their own accord and created situations of their own accord too – so much so that one forgot what the other did and therefore they all contradicted each other. Seems both heroes wanted to romance both heroines and so that’s exactly what they did………Partner hopping like you’d never believe! Thank God the movie’s got an A certificate. That seems to be the only sensible thing someone did. Saif and Bipasha looked good but that’s about the only good thing about them. Akshaye has a pronounced paunch and a weird wig and he looks Saif’s uncle though he’s supposed to be his younger brother. Katrina looks washed out, dances badly and her acting’s worse if that’s possible. Anil Kapoor looks lecherous and old and has got all the vulgar dialogues. Sameera Reddy just wears revealing clothes and that’s it. The only good thing in the movie is Johny Lever who has a 2 minute role. He provides unadulterated comic relief for those 2 minutes……..

    The last one hour saw me laughing continuously – No, not at the jokes or anything. It was just that I couldn't believe that we were watching something so absurd. My husband of course went into depression and must have willed himself to sit through till the end…………..And to think that this was our one outing without the kids after ages……..He got me a teeny brownie and coffee and that probably was the best part……

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  15. "5 stars: Amazing - wouldn't watching again"

    :) whats that suppose to mean?? do u mean Art Films by this rating??

    Well Race was Ok sort of Movie and you can watch it if you have spare time to watch.. As per me everything in the movie was predictable except Katrina and Akshya Khanna affair.. It felt like that road for the racing was also built by Ranvir and Rajiv's father.. as there was no one on that road except end.. Both heroes even though talking in millions of dollars were driving poor cars.. well I must appreciate that these days in India we atleast have some differnt type of cinema going around.. as earlier it was like one villain one hero.. hero was taking revenge for his murdered father or raped sister or mother.. Or another plot was rich guy/girl falling in love with porr girl/guy and their families going through hack lots of trouble.. so its nice these days to see change in movie making in india..


    Hemant

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  16. I think she meant "wouldn't MIND watching again" :-)

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