Saturday, January 26, 2013

Of flashy cars and tasteless jokes












This is bad. You walk in to the film expecting certain class, style and a script. Actually no, haha, this is Abbas-Mastan, the Surf Excel duo who made Akshay Kumar go "Do you think I am a male prostitute?" in Aitraaz. Hahahaha, class is ruled out. Style could well be ruled out too, basis those tasteless fruity jokes in the first edition of the Race franchise. But a script? How difficult was it to be "loosely inspired" by Dachimawa Lee or something (who knows, maybe it is) and then label it as new age cinema with "a script that demanded skin show"? But, no. The Surf Excel men decided to make Race-2, which has nothing to do with any race, by the way - except an unnecessarily thrown in race course scene which makes no sense. So here's what Race 2 is all about (I think):
Street fighter turned casino kingpin Armaan Malik (John Abraham) owns some crazy number of casinos where he gambles all day long. His half-sister Elena (Deepika Padukone) plays naughty by putting on some damn rare glasses that help change the cards her brother is dealing, or something like that. Not important. Somewhere in the lobby, thief-cum-random-fencing-player Omisha (Jacqueline Fernandez) is picking people's pockets (again not relevant). In comes mean boy Ranveer (Saif) whose profession we know nothing about because he drives Lamborghinis and dons Gucci glares, so it's all fine. The "Race" begins when Ranveer asks old friend RD (Anil Kapoor) and his arm-candy Cherry (Amisha Patel) to help him con Armaan because he wants revenge for the death of his woman.
And then come the unnecessary twists. Elena has a one-night stand with Ranveer (reason not explained). Ranveer gladly obliges in the name of revenge (convenient). Omisha promises to side with Ranveer but sides with Armaan instead. Armaan knows Ranveer's plans but pretends he doesn't know. Ranveer knows Armaan knows his plans but pretends he doesn't know that Armaan knows. Armaan tries blowing up Ranveer's car with, ahem, a speed-sensor bomb (which indeed, Ranveer detaches from the speeding car and it still doesn't blow up in his divine hands). Elena tells Ranveer that bomb was to blow her up and not Ranveer, because actually Armaan wants to kill his half-sister as well. Elena sides with Ranveer, then sides with Armaan again. < Also, insert one random wrestling bout and ten thousand cheap jokes on fruits between RD and Cherry >. By the time the climax is unfolding, you are left with only one question: WHAT PLANE HAS SUCH SHITTY WINDOWS THAT SHATTER WHEN A SEAT BAR HITS THEM?
The good news is the movie finally ended. The bad news is the closing line hinted at yet another possible sequel. I just hope it doesn't make it to the 100-crore club. It could shatter the dreams of a million hopeful storytellers in the country.

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