Shaadi Se Pehle : In-Sane World
Shaadi Se Pehle is about how Akshaye Khanna has tragically inherited Sunny Deol’s problem. Bad wig days. SSP is about how Director Satish Kaushik and writer Sanjay Chel get together to make a rehash of the 1979 average hit Meri Biwi Ki Shaadi and end up making a much worse product.
SSP is about Rajpal Yadav’s pathetic attempts to imitate Ashok Saraf’s character in the original movie. He ends up doing nothing but irritate the bejeezus out of us. SSP is about a bunch of other actors who swing in and out and back in and back out of the movie as if the story was written while the writers sat on a merry go round while typing the screenplay.
SSP is about the most ridiculous of characters played in the worst possible ways in the history of World Cinema right from Sunil Shetty to Mallika Sherawat. SSP is about a sad reminder that Anupam Kher once used to be in the top league of high quality actors.
SSP is also a reminder of how pathetic, tragic, stupid, idiotic, farcial, superficial, corrupted, pinheaded and empty Bollywood’s chosen writers have become.
Why even write? Why not just spill the ink on blank pages and pass it off as a screenplay…. sadly some idiot may end up making a movie out of that too. For it is Bollywood. Anything is possible.
Following the original story like an ass on fire, SSP has Akshaye Khanna misunderstanding that he is going to die. So he breaks up with his fiancée. O Boy. Fiancée teary eyed. Why do bye bye? Khanna jee, she realizes is no guy (cow), for he is now in the arms of “I look best in my birthday suit” Sherawat, who falls in love with guy (cow). Bow wow. Birthday Suit’s brother is Sunil “Don living in Malaysia” Shetty who… honestly by this time you don’t care or even make any forced attempt to care about any of the shit-headed scenes projected on your screen in the name of a movie.
Except for a laugh or two, there is nothing much this supposedly “comedy” has to offer.
Satish Kaushik is a tremendous actor. As a director I’m still not impressed. If Sanjay Chel is what Bollywood could come up with, in the name of good writers, then it’s time I call India to talk to my dhobi, kachra walla, seeng chana walla, paper walla and other wallas and urge them to go to Bollywood and apply for a writer’s job.
Above all, their applications should also be directed to another post. That of the CEO of Mukta Arts. Its high time that Mr. Subhash Ghai, either takes a long vacation and get his bearings back in order or he makes way for someone more capable to lead the fledgling company.
F Minus. Another shitty one from Bollywood. Another attempted excuse to market trash as a superior product.
May 8th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Ghai (big fat cow)! How long has he been doing this thing for, 20 - 25 years? Personally, I stopped getting excited about his stuff after his imli ka boota - Saudagar. That film, I guess, has set his dominos falling until they *hit* Taal, which in my opinion is as artistic as a broken pane of glass; it’s an entirely different story though that many people thought they caught, as the shrads and slivers fell, a glimpse of a thousand rainbows flashing. Argumentum ad populum.
May 8th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Hmmm….and I thought 36 Chinatown was bad. That’s another one from the Mukta Arts banner. It was so bad, that I had to put a review for it on my blog.
~Manoj~
May 9th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Subhash Ghai just got really lucky with Iqbal…
and he has the nerve to call that kukunoor labour of love ‘a subhash ghai movie’…
anyway, as a standard rule, I stay away from movies that have music done by Nasalesh Reshammiya…you just know its a poor association of talent when he’s in the picture…and Sherawat…and let’s say Khanna hasnt made the best choices in films over the years
did satish kaushik really write Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron…?
May 9th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
- WB, I haven’t enjoyed “any” of Ghai’s products after Ram Lakhan. There came about a dryness in the way he told a story. Ofcourse then his movies lost all meaning and sense and then the movies became utterly idiotic. I tried sitting through Pardes last week. Some of the scenes are highly embarassing.
- Manoj, Enjoyed your review on 36 china town. Dude, is there an easier way to leave comments on your blog… I left two comments but none showed up. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
- Saba, I didn’t know he was calling Iqbal - ‘a Subhash Ghai movie’, I thought it was supposed to be “a Mukta Arts Movie”… perhaps he’s tried to attach the “Subhash Ghai” brand hoping that would work to generate business for Iqbal, which truly said didn’t need any for the product was quite good. But on the other hand, does the “Subhash Ghai” brand hold any value these days?
Satish Kaushik wrote the “dialogues” for JBDY. The story and screenplay are credited to Kundan Shah and Sudhir Mishra.