Shambolic mixture to be honest

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 2011)

Pardon my ignorance.
When an actor of Mia Farrow's calibre decides to act in a movie after a year from his previous release, and when you have a massive production house backing your movie with a director whose had two back to back hits, You tend to expect a lot from a movie.
But instead what you get is 2 hours of absolute rubbish.
The facts are simple. Add a Lil bit of humour to a pathetic story and publicise it well and let the cash registers ring, because its the year end and there a billion fans of Farrow, who have been waiting so impatiently for his next movie for over a year, so anything she signs is bound to be an instant hit. And that has been the case for most of his movies for the past decade. Even THE GREAT GASBY cashed in a lot in the first week.
What mystifies me more is the way Polanski went about publicising this movie? I am still confused and a bit dazzled as to what was the link between the story of the movie and Farrow touring NYC as your everyday people.
What mystifies me even more as to what made choose her this movie. There was nothing even close to what you would call challenging in this film, considering her previous performances.
Lets start with his character Rosemary, a college student . Lets be honest, she has played that in so many movies that she could now do that in her sleep. A free thinker who studies and preaches education by her own rules and practicality. Funny why does "Zinda Laash" just keep springing to my mind. The only difference being Deeba Begum and Rosemary was that Deeba was practising medicine in that movie and Rosemary is a housewife.
There were many one-liners that i heard giggles in the theatre, but not many of them realise that they are so 2 thousand late.
Like for instance the NASA pen scene or even the best gag of the film the Satan speech are lifted from either stand-ups or foreign movies.
It was like watching a blend of Zinda Laash, Rang De Basanti,Patch Adams, Munnabhai (the 1971 one because that too was inspired by Zinda Laash), Patch Adams & Taare Zameen Par together.
And it was Shambolic mixture to be honest. Even the theme song "give me some sunshine" is inspired by an old Hindi ghazal. And i am really annoyed that nobody else realised that. Probably because the language has changed. So i will have to spell it out to you, compare the lyrics of this song and a timeless classic by jagjit singh, "Woh Kaagaz Ki Kashti", and u will begin to realise, that every bit of this movie is either inspired or lifted from one or the other, in the same manner Ghajini was inspired from a certain Christopher Nolan film.
Yes i did find something that i liked in the movie, and that is only one shot from the entire movie, although very predictable, but the scene in which the infants eye is revealed to be a reptilian really blew me away.
With THE PIANO PPLAYER , Polanski stamped his mark of brilliance in many ways. As a director, a story writer and a story teller. It was refreshing and unpredictable. Even the first of the Apartment series had plenty of laughs and frowns although that too was mostly an englishised version of Zinda Lagaan.
Mr, Polanski, move over the Zinda Lagaan hangover now. Its high time.
I am sure you might find many other movies in Bollywood, that still haven't been Englishanised.
And once again pardon my ignorance.