WHY Farah WHY?

Rating: 4/10 (29 October 2014)

OK first thing first, I am here to rant about the new assault on our senses brought about by the most expensive holiday advertisement for Dubai a.k.a Happy New Year. I think Farah Khan thinks her audiences are a stupid bunch and I think she might be right. After all we do go to the theater and spend our hard(ly) earned money on those expensive movie tickets, obligatory and overtly expensive sodas, candy and popcorn. Boman Irani plays a Parsi middle aged man who still lives with his mother and surprisingly is the hottie of the society. Sonu Sood is the all brawn no brains guy who can hear through only one ear and gets crazy mad, huffing and puffing like he is in a gym lifting a really heavy barbell #nuffsaid. Abhishek Bachchan is neither brawn nor brains but he drops his pants in the movie (no ladies, no sawariya happening here) and oddly the only guy who is slightly funny in this anesthesia fest. I won't be too harsh on the young Vivaan Shah playing the nerdy hacker who is socially awkward especially around women (talk about stereotypes), it is his second film and no one would pass up an opportunity to stand next to this cast. Deepika Padukone does what she was supposed to do, sing songs, dance sexy, look pretty, act dumb, shed some tears, fall in love with SRK and be Kamlee (hihi see what I did there). Jackie Shroff looks good as a baddie daddy but that's all I can say for it. Last but not least SRK plays the young man named Charlie who is also a Boston university topper (so we know that he is very smart) but works in a dinghy, muddy fight club as a fighter dude (so we know that he is strong). Somehow, we make through to the end of the movie where everything is right with the world, all wrongs have been corrected and the cast is dressed in sparkly costumes dancing away to glory in midst of fireworks, platforms that lift up in the air (ooohh fancy) and all that razzle-dazzle. Finally, this brain numbing movie comes to an end and the audience is left dumbfounded by what just happened to them! To all those people who are ranting on the internet about how bad this movie was, please remember guys we did this to ourselves, we knew what was going to happen but we still went on hoping against all odds that this movie would be something else. We sat there coz SRK, we cried internally and got brain bleed coz SRK and we came out of the theater feeling dead inside coz SRK. At least there were abs, all 8 of them. P.S. This is in no way to disrespect anyone's feelings, I love SRK and I am a huge fan of all the other actors in the movie, in fact, I like Main hoon na and Om Shanti Om a lot but I couldn't help talking about Happy new year. As a true blue SRK fan, I would say just go and watch it for yourself. Maybe you will feel differently, though I doubt it.