Review of Holiday

Holiday (2014)
4/10
Standard Bollywood Paycheck Affair.
16 June 2014
The team behind Holiday supposedly had a "vision" before they started on the movie and it can be described in vivid detail as PAYCHECK......hmmmmm paycheck....

So how does Bollywood encash its cheque??!! Switch on any Hindi movie channel, watch dubbed south Indian movies for 1 week.

Note down the names of a few of the movies you saw and feel will sell.

Contact director/writer of said film.

Either he will agree to remake it in Hindi, or you can buy the rights and ask another desperate (and hopefully less talented) team to do it.

Finding an actor for a remake used to be a problem, but thanks to blessings of the greats like Aamir, Salman that's no longer the case.

Actresses are even easier, either you take sonakshi, or put out an ad for a south Indian actress who wants to make it in Bollywood.

Everything else is just a formality, a few songs, 1 or 2 from honey/ mika singh if you can afford it, some cool stunts, a few overacted scenes involving love, family ,loyalty to country/village/city/house/boss.

Being a remake by the original South Indian team technically the movie is upto standards but neither excels or fails in any department.

Complaining about trivialities like script, cast, stereotypes isn't prudent when you know what your getting into.

So lets get to highlights.

The timing was perfect after the IPL before the Football world-cup with no major releases and a bankable cast.

Your never completely suicidal at any time, at the lowest point you will wallow in self pity and shame for giving into boredom/helplessness and taking the effort to watch such a movie.

If your reading this review now, the drought has passed, the football world-cup is on, a few entertaining low budget movies are in the theatres, just wait till the movie is released on TV.

Do the right thing and don't encourage such ordinary cinema unless you absolutely have to.

-s script, dialogues, epic scenes bordering on ridiculous, poor songs.

+/-s Sonakshi (love her hate her.....), Southern Formula (love it...hate it...), Secular terrorists (sic).

+s standard technical values, Akshays Panache and Charisma.
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