Action Replayy

Plot synopsis:
The story focuses on Kishen (Akshay Kumar), a well-to-do businessman, who is unhappily married to Mala (Aishwarya Rai). They have young son, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor), who does not want to get married because of the loveless relationship between his parents. Bunty's girlfriend, Tanya (Sudeepa Singh), keeps proposing to him but he always rejects. She takes Bunty to her grandfather, Anthony Gonsalves (Randhir Kapoor), who happens to be a scientist and he is working on a time machine. Anthony asks Bunty why he refuses to get married. Bunty says that he is scared of marriage because his parents seem so unhappy with theirs.
On their 35th anniversary, Kishen and Mala get in an argument because of her friend Kundan (Rannvijay Singh). Kundan used to tease Kishen and tries to repeat it after all these days. Mala doesn't stop him, moreover laughs over Kishen along with her friends. This leads to a fight between Kishen and Mala and it goes too far that they decide to get a divorce. When Bunty hears this, he runs to Anthony's lab to use the time machine and go back in time, so that he can make his parents fall in love. Without Anthony's supervision, Bunty enters the time machine and goes back to a time before his parents got married. He finds his grandfather's house, where he sees Kishen. Bunty realises that the younger Kishen was an unattractive, weak and socially awkward youth where as younger Mala was attractive as well as spirited. Mala keeps making fun of Kishen. Bunty makes Kishen over into a 'cool dude' with the help of money he borrowed from younger Anthony. Mala's friend Mona (Neha Dhupia) falls in love with Bunty.
Bunty creates a plan to help Mala realise her love for Kishen. Meanwhile, Kundan also falls for Mala, making things more complicated. Bunty tells Kishen to ignore Mala, while she is becoming friendlier towards him. The plan succeeds in awakening Mala's feelings and she confesses her love for Kishen. She tells Mona about her feelings. However, Kishen and Mala's parents are against love marriages and, therefore, do not accept their relationship. So the lovers, helped by Bunty, decide to elope. Kundan takes Mala's mother Bholi Devi (Kirron Kher) and servant Bhikhu (Rajpal Yadav), along with Kishen's father Rai Bahadur (Om Puri), to chase the love birds. At the end of the chase, Kishen slaps Kundan for his bad behaviour. Their parents accept Kishen and Mala's relationship. Mona proposes to Bunty but he tells her that he loves another woman, who is waiting for him. Bunty then uses the time machine to return to the future. As expected, his parents are deeply in love with each other. But, unexpectedly, Mona and Kundan are also married to each other. Bunty then takes Tanya aside, proposes to her, and she accepts happily.

Tags: romantic

Review:
The creative team behind this movie have taken the Back to the Future theme and have obviously had a lot of fun making this Bollywood version - expect plenty of 70's throwbacks with quirky costumes, hairstyles and moustaches, wacky comedy ably performed by the seasoned cast, and of course this being Bollywood a decent soundtrack - there some good songs.I cannot see why this has been slated as a 'flop' - it brims with so much fun, laughter, and wackiness of time travel!
It just shows you have to make up your mind and not always follow the crowd, especially when they turn a dud of a movie like 'I hate luv stories' into a hit.I recommend this to anyone, so go check it out!.
Vipul Shah's 'Action Replayy' is an entertaining film, that worked for Me. I still wonder why were critics so harsh to this flick, and why did the audience reject it outright?
'Action Replayy' entertains, especially in the second hour, which is superb.
The art direction deserves a mention as well, as it truly brings back the era of the 70's.Performance-Wise: Akshay Kumar is Fantastic.
Rannvijay Singh is least impressive.On the whole, 'Action Replayy' surely deserves a watch, as it offers some genuinely entertaining moments, that remain with you.
For me this was the best comedy of 2010, better than Goolmal or No Problem or any other movie from earlier this year.
I feel that I'm being quite generous on my rating of 7/10, as I was expecting a lot from Action Replayy and it did not live up to those standards.
With Akshay Kumar playing a lead role, I was expecting gut-bursting laughs, and thankfully, that has fulfilled it's promise.
Rannvijay Singh as Kundanlal was irksome and brings out a lot of the comedy in the movie - he was a great villain.
And there is even another fresh face playing Bunty's love interest Tanya.I loathed the "time machine" scenes because they were done with about the effort of a five-year old.
Action Replayy is a flawed film, with it's plot (or lack of) being the main letdown, but I still wouldn't say this film is not worth watching.
This is good for a lazy evening in, but don't watch this expecting a great cinematic experience, because it's not that sort of film.
The movie was alright, nothing great.Akshay Kumar was very good as always, he is always 1st class in a comic role.Aishwarya Rai B was looking amazing in all the 60s costumes and hair, acting was very good from her too.But the film overall was not worth it, i mean it is worth watching once and they should be for the great performance from both Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai B.Music was decent, nothing great.My review on Action Replayy: 5/10.
Bollywood directors are experimenting in a rather harmless manner nowadays, and Action Replayy is the result of such an attempt from Vipul Shah, who entertained us with Namastey London and disappointed us with London Dreams in the previous years.
A lot of questions of plagiarism come along with the subject of travelling through time, but I never felt any resemblance with any other movie, this is original work, IMO.
There are many flaws in the movie, but still it is enjoyable, with an interesting screenplay and good performances.
There are lot of entertaining moments throughout the film, some of them are very good.
Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are good, so as Rannvijay Singh, Om Puri, Kirron Kher, Neha Dhupia, Rajpal Yadav etc.
May be editor's mistake!!On the whole, it is a good movie, definitely worth a watch..
I started watching this movie without little to no expectations.
it started adding fun, comedy, nice one liners and super acting by everybody...whoever watched movie with great expectations thinking it will be a next big sci-fi hit, they were either sleepy heads or crazy in mind...
I loved this movie.Although the concept of the time machine may not have been digested by many viewers i thought it was unique.
Unfortunately, i have noticed that movies like chandni chowk and action repplay had bad editing.
Action Replayy wasn't all that bad a film.
The actor playing the protagonist did a good job, but I think it would have been better and more interesting if a more established star had his role in a film that is on such a grand scale with such huge stars.
Great movie for Akshay Kumar after long time.
The movie is completely great with combination of songs, music, sensible comedy, smart romance and drama.
People were expecting Akshay to do some different roles but this movie is recommended for that in different genre of comedy.
Akshay has done superb acting since Bhool Bhulaiya and Ashwariya Rai has got amazing role after long time.
Great job by Vipul Shah, Akshay Kumar, Ashwariya Rai and Aditya Roy Kapoor..
After watching loads of good, bad and ugly movies, I always think to write reviews on them.
Well I am starting with this film"Action Replayy"The moment I watched the trailer of this film, I instantly knew that it must be a bad rip off from Robert Zememkis' 1985 film, "Back to the Future".
I was totally wrong, hope to watch a good Hindi film is still a hope here.
The story is about Siddharth Roy Kapoor, who is playing Akshay Kumar's son, is going back in 70's to change his parent's bad relationship in a small time machine (Again that machine is a pirated version of Simon Well's "The Time Machine").
After doing loads of bad films, with Action Replayy", Akshay Kumar again proved that he is still the king of bad films.
With same acting style, same devil like laugh and same comedies, Akshay has still maintained his (bad) continuity.
Awesome comedy, great script and good songs.
It has a very good script, supported by great acting by Akshay Kumar and a good performance by Aishwarya Rai. The songs were really good, i especially loved the song dedicated to the couple and the sing-off.Akshay Kumar has come a long was as an actor.
The combination of his comic timing and the great script makes this film hilarious.
But when i saw the movie what i think its Akshay Kumar one of best performance.
i really loved the movie and i think that Aditya Roy Kapoor acting is better than Ranbir Kapoor and he is the future best actor.
ACTION REPLAYY is better than Dabangg , Rajneeti , Housefull , Khatta Meetha , Once Upon a Time in Mubai and Golmaal 3.I will give this movie 10 out of 10.
ACTION REPLAYY looks 100 times better than Golmaal 3.And the guys from Bollywood Hungama and other movie rating company been recess to Aksahy Kumar because they gave this movie really low rating but on Facebook and other social networking sites peoples are swearing on guys from movie rating companies because this movie has to be 4.5 out 5 because they say its best movie of 2010 year so far and this movies got really good good comments on social networking websites..
The film by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, based on the 1994 Gujarati play Action Replay, reminds you of Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future, only that the narrative isn't as tightly woven, and the time travel element and danger kept to a bare minimum, other than being a plot device to bring Bunty (Aditiya Roy Kapoor) back to March 1975 before his parents Kishen aka Kitchen Kumar the hotel restaurateur (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Ash) got married.
And hasty is probably the word most apt in putting aside logistics such as clothing and money, in how a boy from the 21st century doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, and conveniently too goes back to the future in what turned out to be yet a hasty wrap up of the film that does the emotional core of Bunty great disservice in his about turn and attitudes toward marriage.Thankfully things start to pick up in the second half where the Kishen undergoes a major exterior makeover to woo the girl of his manipulated dreams, and becomes that suave lady killer, although always shaking on the inside once his game is over, which lead to numerous opportunities for mirth which does get tired after a while, despite great comedic timing by Akshay Kumar, spouting what I suspect would probably be a popular catch phrase amongst the younger crowd when they emerge from the theatres.
There never was a real threat experienced in a way despite competition from Kundan who can sing in two voices, because the time travel paradox doesn't seem to kick in on Bunty each time Kishen and Mala seem to drift emotionally further apart which would have threatened his existence.Action Replayy marks the reigning Queen of Bollywood's third release (out of four) this year with the likes of Raavan starring opposite her real life husband and Endhiran with Superstar Rajnikanth, and her role here is quite unlike those that I've seen before, since her Mala is mostly displaying negative traits at least for the beginning of the film, before succumbing back to a vulnerable, wistful lass who thinks Kishen does not like her for her meanness displayed earlier.
Great movie - kind of relief from Akshay's usual grind.
In my opinion one of good movies of Akshay.
I don't know why Akshay Kumar is still making comedy movies.
pplz GOD replayy the time i watched this movie.
i went to watch this movie with great expectation because i am very fond of sci fictions and watched BACK TO FUTURE so was keen to watch Hindi version of it..
The next irritating thing was akshay kumar with his old repetitive style of acting(comedy which doesn't make you laugh now).
The only good thing about the movie was the new actor aditya kumar roy.
Where akshay's son goes back to 30yrs back & makes their parents fall in love.Akshay acting(AWFUL), Aishwarya (over acting), Aditya Roy Kapoor (he gotta know the meanin of acting first).Please skip this stupid movie & don't even think of even watching it even in DVD at home.This is most ever FLOP & third class movie which has no sense..
The Diwali of 2010 witnessed two movies Action Replayy and Golmaal 3.
Action Replayy,directed by Vipul Shah is a bland remake of Back To The Future.
Action Replayy tries very hard to entertain but unfortunately it fails big time.Main reason is its dull script.The Om Puri and Kirron Kher saga is so boring.Instead of being comedy it ends up being tragedy.
Performance wise-Akshay Kumar,its high time you leave comedy genre in Bollywood and start doing some action movies.Aishwarya Rai,for the first time looks and acts bad.Aditya is the saving grace.Neha Dhupia,Rndhir Kapoor,Om Puri,Kirron Kher and Rajpal Yadav are wasted.Rannvijay Singh is stupid.Overall Action Replayy is tacky.Bad. Even the repeat telecast of Akshay's MASTER CHEF on TV is more entertaining than this tacky rip-off..
Akshay Kumar and Vipul Shah returning together with a time travel comedy on the Big Diwali weekend sounded great and exciting for every Bollywood fan.
But sadly, once again the HIT machine fails to deliver and the actor ditches his every die-hard admirer with a simply awful movie which keeps hanging between different genres of Fiction, Adventure, Comedy and Science Fiction.
In fact ACTION REPLAYY forced me to think that whether Akshay ever watches the rushes of the movies he is working in and discusses the product in the making with his director?
The thought came to my mind because after consistently giving weak and bad movies in the past, Akshay repeatedly commits the same mistake again and returns with a thoroughly unlikable film which is even less entertaining than his miserable duds, Chandni Chowk to China and Blue.First of all, nobody can say that it's an Original Story Plot as the writers take all their inputs from the Classic English Trilogy "BACK TO THE FUTURE (Part I-III)" and they cannot deny it in any way.
And further talking about this inspirational angle, ACTION REPLAYY can be easily rated as "One of the most destructive rip-offs or inspired movies made in the history of Indian Cinema".
In straight words ACTION REPLAYY brutally murders the interesting plot taken from BTTF and completely ruins the idea with a highly amateurish, silly and boring kind of product which stands not even close to the 'B' of BACK TO THE FUTURE Series.Frankly speaking, How can you seriously enjoy a movie made on the Time- Travel subject in which the director does not even care to explain you anything about the concept and only shows a professor and his weird machine which can take you back to the past years just like a Local BEST or DTC Bus going towards your home street.
That was really the most silly thought put in by the writers with a very poor visual imagination and creativity.Although made with good production values and eye-catching colourful backgrounds ACTION REPLAYY fails to make an impression mainly because it is neither a good science fiction nor a fine emotional drama.
Aishwarya does look beautiful in those well worked upon dresses but on the entertainment quotient the entire cast performs over the top and fails miserably.
Only Aditya Roy Kapur as the time travelling son of Akshay and Aishwarya leaves an impact and the boy would certainly get more work after this, that's for sure.Pritam as the music-man once again remixes some old hit punjabi phrases in "Zor Ka Jhatka" and also gets his inspiration from a "Bombay Rockers" Song.
However I felt the background music by Salim-Sulaiman more enjoyable than the entire musical soundtrack.Overall, ACTION REPLAYY is a bad attempt made on the subject of time travel with a small pinch of love.
But ACTION REPLAYY remains one of the most under- worked and lifeless inspired movies of the current times.In short, even the repeat telecast of Akshay's MASTER CHEF T.V. Serial will entertain you more than this tacky rip off.
I just finished watching action replay, and i have not given a very good rating.
In my opinion, this movie was dull and predictable of what was to happen in the movie, the performance of Akshay Kumar was great as he played a loser, the costume worn in the movie matched the theme of the movie.
Ranvijay Singh:: Should have watched a few more yesteryear villains (likes of Ranjeet/ Prem Chopra) to create a believable character.Randhir Kapoor:: As a mad scientist, he was OK in his job.Neha Dhupia:: Hardly any meat in the role.Om Puri & Kiron Kher:: Completely wasted.Rajpal Yadav:: A few good one-liners but predominantly irritating character.The entire team should be lauded for keeping the diversion alive in the media circles that "Action Replay" was a copy of "Benjamin Button" while they were cooking a blatant plagiarised "Back to the future" behind the closed doors.
Action Replayy-a decent film.
Action Replay is a film which has properly used all the elements of a real entertainer.
Although Akshay's look is disappointing,the rest of the things are cool.The story,music,comedy and of course,Akshay's look(which becomes good later on)!The performances were very good.The music and the filming in Eastman color has also given us all a 70's experience.Akki says the dialogue Awaaz Neeche!Very well.The music is accordingly placed and there are hardly any clichés in the film,the direction is good.On the whole,watch Action Replay if you like entertainment packages,especially the light hearted ones.A nice movie overall!.
its never looking like 70's days.art direction is too much craftymusic has no direct relation with the movie's objective.in short, its again a bolywood biggies congress to make audience wasting their TIME n some good bucks....
We have Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar as a parents of Bunty played by Aditya Roy Kapoor.
The story goes like this....There is boy(Aditya)who don't want to marry because he thinks that he will end up as his parents.
Also several scenes are too childish and bizarre and get irritatingDirection by Vipul Shah is bad,however his imagination should be applauded Music is okay, Jor Ka Jhatka was famous those days but the songs do interrupt, Camera-work is fab, the 70s era is well recreatedAkshay Kumar tries to look the part and does justice, he is superb as the bucket teeth simpleton and also later as the stylish guy Aishwarya Rai tends to overdo it Aditya Roy Kapoor who debutted in London Dreams got an imp role and does a good job Om Puri,Kirron Kher are given half baked roles, Rajpal Yadav is wasted, Ranvijay Singh fails, Neha Dhupia is average, Randhir Kapoor is okay.
Action Replayy is a quite entertaining film but it was tagged to "Sci-Fi".
This entire film full of humor but for those who expect a science fiction traveling back to the past and making changes that reflect in the future, will be disappointed.
He then travels back to the past and the big part of the movie starts.
60s-70s environment shown in the film is beautiful and Akshay and Aishwarya are doing their regular superb performance to recreate those characters' past with a good sense of humor.
well actually i don't blame the cast .....it is wholly the writer ,d screen play n director who r to be blamed...not a sci-fi at all...i can see why Indian cinema is going nowhere..though there r very good movies too...but that too thousand in one...
Remind u its all from the master piece Robert Zemeckis "back to the future" trilogy..though it tells u in the beginning it is based on some authors play "action replayy"..
I tried watching Action Replayy for about 30 min..den thought that it may turn out some good at d end...den i continued watching it till the end resulting in total loss of my worthwhile 2hr n 15 min ...plus felt like a loser like akshay kumar in the movie coz of watching it.