NOW SHOWING: JOKER (Hindi)
Directed by Shirish Kunder
Starring Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade, Minisha Lamba, Alexx O Nell,
Darshan Jariwala, Vindu Dara Singh, Asrani
Duration 100 minutes
Rating U
I WENT with high expectations that this would be an interesting story about aliens. I was disappointed. Akshay Kumar, for whom Joker is his 100th film, must really choose his directors and stories more carefully if he wants to stay at the top.
Joker turned out to be a children’s movie, filled with characters who dress up to be funny. They burst into song at the slightest excuse and their antics are childish. Some of the scenes insult our intelligence.
The film is produced by film director and choreographer Farah Khan, her husband Shirish Kunder and Akshay.
To be fair, Farah has stated that this film was indeed meant for the whole family, especially children. Her husband Shirish directed the movie, his second after Jaan-E-Mann (2006), starring Salman Khan and Akshay. The producers were probably hoping to repeat the magic of the recent hit movie Rowdy Rathore, which also had the successful combination of Akshay and Sonakshi Sinha
Akshay plays scientist Agastya who returns with his wife (Sonakshi Sinha) from the United States after receiving news that his father (Darshan Jariwala) is very sick.
The village is not even on the map and is dying because a dam has dried up the river feeding the village fields. When all his attempts to draw attention to the plight of the villagers fail, Agastya devises a cunning plan.
Being a scientist involved in studying alien life in space, he decides to create crop circles, a phenomena usually associated with alien life.
True enough, this draws the attention of the media and people start flocking to the village. The local authorities also eagerly lay in water supply and electricity to the village. But experts are coming to study the crop circles and this has Agastya and the villagers worried.
Young G.V. Prakash, who has been behind some hit songs in south Indian movies (also nephew of Academy Award-winning music maestro A.R. Rahman), makes his Bollywood debut here with five songs. But it is the sixth song
Kaafirana (with lissome Chitrangada Singh providing an eyeful), composed by Gaurav Dagaonkar, that everyone is talking about.
Aliens are not alien to Indian movies. There was an adorable alien in Rakesh Roshan’s 2003 film Koi Mil Gaya (where the alien called Jadoo makes a superman out of a mentally -challenged Hrithik Roshan) and its sequel Krssh (2006).
A third movie in the series is expected next year.
Joker is short by Indian film standards. Yet, it makes you wish it was even shorter to ease your torment while watching it.
Directed by Shirish Kunder
Starring Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade, Minisha Lamba, Alexx O Nell,
Darshan Jariwala, Vindu Dara Singh, Asrani
Duration 100 minutes
Rating U
Joker turned out to be a children’s movie, filled with characters who dress up to be funny. They burst into song at the slightest excuse and their antics are childish. Some of the scenes insult our intelligence.
The film is produced by film director and choreographer Farah Khan, her husband Shirish Kunder and Akshay.
To be fair, Farah has stated that this film was indeed meant for the whole family, especially children. Her husband Shirish directed the movie, his second after Jaan-E-Mann (2006), starring Salman Khan and Akshay. The producers were probably hoping to repeat the magic of the recent hit movie Rowdy Rathore, which also had the successful combination of Akshay and Sonakshi Sinha
Akshay plays scientist Agastya who returns with his wife (Sonakshi Sinha) from the United States after receiving news that his father (Darshan Jariwala) is very sick.
The village is not even on the map and is dying because a dam has dried up the river feeding the village fields. When all his attempts to draw attention to the plight of the villagers fail, Agastya devises a cunning plan.
Being a scientist involved in studying alien life in space, he decides to create crop circles, a phenomena usually associated with alien life.
True enough, this draws the attention of the media and people start flocking to the village. The local authorities also eagerly lay in water supply and electricity to the village. But experts are coming to study the crop circles and this has Agastya and the villagers worried.
Young G.V. Prakash, who has been behind some hit songs in south Indian movies (also nephew of Academy Award-winning music maestro A.R. Rahman), makes his Bollywood debut here with five songs. But it is the sixth song
Kaafirana (with lissome Chitrangada Singh providing an eyeful), composed by Gaurav Dagaonkar, that everyone is talking about.
Aliens are not alien to Indian movies. There was an adorable alien in Rakesh Roshan’s 2003 film Koi Mil Gaya (where the alien called Jadoo makes a superman out of a mentally -challenged Hrithik Roshan) and its sequel Krssh (2006).
A third movie in the series is expected next year.
Joker is short by Indian film standards. Yet, it makes you wish it was even shorter to ease your torment while watching it.
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