Healthy family neat-n-clean entertainer

Rating: 6/10 (1 November 2014)

Good actors make an ordinary film work !
After seeing this film you will know the value of established actors like Shahrukh, Abhishek, Boman Irani, Deepika, Jackey dada. If this film were having some unknown/ordinary actors it would have tanked badly.
Movie reminds me of DHOOM-1 which was awful but for some sacred reasons worked. I thought about what worked for movies like these and concluded that these movies restrict themselves to the central theme of the
movie and never deviate from that. HNY is one such movie.
Movie is just like yet another Sholay like theme where a central person creates a team for a task. Numerous films have been made on this theme in India with several variations keeping Sholay's theme intact. In HNY too,
our King Khan creates a team for a hiest to take revenge for his father.
Locations, sets are big. Movie is colorful. Dubai is shown beautifully. Deepika steals the show in her unusual role. All are OK, but more weight and time is given to Shahrukh and Deepika.
And now the negative traits :
Characters were not polished at all. If a character is peculiar, then some decent build up must be there to bring more weight. Mere 2 minute verbal background story is not enough to bring out excitement.
This one should learn from notable film makers like Manmohan Desai(Amar Akbar Anthony), Late Mukul Anand(Hum), David Dhawan(Aankhen, 1993). These are multi-starrer films and every single character was
introduced and raised beautifully.
To bring out a hair raising heist is not an easy task. Remember Anil-Kapoor in Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja, Jwell Thief ? Farah Khan does every thing right but fails to create an edge.
Expecting more polished movie next time.